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I believe Max Griggs tries to stay out of the public eye. I can't imagine he's happy about it. Frankly it's obvious to anyone around here that it has been demolished to try and reduce the objections to future development of the site for commercial purposes by the owner (and the chairman really...

The FA do try to prevent teams from switching sideways too often as it will cause problems with player retention etc depending on where the players live in relation to the clubs in their division. Frankly they are one of those sides where there are no good answers. Hopefully the future plans to...

I'm not 100% but they may have asked to be assessed from Gloucester if they have plans to move back there. Apparently we have been asked to be assessed from Hayden Road (Rushden) despite the fact that our official ground for the start of next season at least will be a ground share with Kempston...

Don't forget that they got forced to change their name to Shaw Lane AFC officially due to the fact that Aquaforce was a sponsorship name, and the reason they were allowed it in the first place was because the FA didn't realise!

Indeed. Full credit to the guy who makes it over on the NLM forum. Gloucester have probably been looking forwards to going south for years. Hopefully for their stability they can stay south for a few years now. I think every club that has made any form of announcement so far has been in line...

Wembley availability is going to be messed with anyway due to the whole Spurs thing. And if Chelsea then use it following that it's going to be like that for a few years.

This is a bit of an FYI type thread for those interested. Most of the clubs currently in the National League will have visited it as an away ground at some point in it's lifespan. Now it has been completely levelled. local paper article -...

Oh I almost forgot - We recently "celebrated" playing our last home game at the Dog and Duck.

It appears teams as a whole have been notified of what division they are expected to play in next season - and as expected Diamonds have been moved back to the Southern League Division 1 Central. Also I put the wrong spreadsheet above. I meant to put in this one (I'll also edit the opening post...

Worcester don't have their own ground, as Greenacres said. They spent some time playing at Kiddy and they currently play at Bromsgrove Sporting's ground (n.b. Bromsgrove Sporting were promoted to step 5, meaning they will now have a derby next season, presuming they will both still play there)...

When you don't know which division you will be in next season despite the fact the season has been over for weeks. And you didn't even get promoted or relegated.

It's silly season time where all sorts of odd things happen, so it's about time we had somewhere to discuss these goings on. I normally start something covering these discussions earlier in the season but I've been busy this year and things have been relatively simple up to now. The leagues...

The more you go the more you dilute it. If every game is for playoff seeding then every game is worth the same, and there are very few big games once again. At the end of the day it's an experiment that hasn't been run yet. Maybe it'll go for a few years and clearly be worse, or maybe it'll be...

I imagine a detailed proposal will be presented and put to a vote at the AGM? Clubs have to vote for it rather than the conference board unilaterally imposing it.

The conference north and south playoffs have been a one-off this year, with a review of the ground grading requirements well overdue (which is what really determines that)

I've heard worse ideas. Don't forget people reacted like playoffs were stupid when they were first introduced. This would bring about a real advantage to finishing 2nd or 3rd, which people have long complained about. It also stretches the places of importance in a 24 team league from 9 (5 at...

It's very slim IMO. If it's a slippery slope then there is a mountain to traverse in getting rid of the 3pm blackout rule. Sure some fans might go for it, but clubs would at best break even if fans here could stream the games from home. Not to mention people getting around paying it and...

When you don't, because it never is.

Presumably all that will stop when they move their youth/reserve sides to Kingsmeadow?

If Orient fans are interested in having Gary Hill I think it's worth their time looking at his employment history and what happened to clubs generally after he was there. It's generally not pretty. He was a bit of a disaster with us, with a reasonable backing (and rumor had it the source of the...