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That will be the future now George. It will be hard for teams coming up from league 2 just to survive from now on
Wrexham, Stockport, Mansfield and Crawley might be the last set of teams that all have a chance of surviving

You would fancy Bradford, MK Dons, Doncaster and perhaps Chesterfield of having a chance of staying up but outside those 4 it will be very difficult to stay up
Your right -- The money is simply filtering down the divisions/leagues.
 

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There have always been very big teams down here. 3 or 4 teams who fall out of the 2nd tier end up dominating. In fact there are less bigger teams down here now than when we were here 15 years ago when we played Leeds, Leicester, Southampton and Norwich. It's very difficult for the standard League One and Two clubs to make the second tier but I disagree that it will be really difficult for League Two teams to stay up in the future. Not seen a lot of difference between the top of L2 and bottom and middle/bottom of L1 yet.

In my opinion, not a lot has changed in the way the pyramid is.
 

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There have always been very big teams down here. 3 or 4 teams who fall out of the 2nd tier end up dominating. In fact there are less bigger teams down here now than when we were here 15 years ago when we played Leeds, Leicester, Southampton and Norwich. It's very difficult for the standard League One and Two clubs to make the second tier but I disagree that it will be really difficult for League Two teams to stay up in the future. Not seen a lot of difference between the top of L2 and bottom and middle/bottom of L1 yet.

In my opinion, not a lot has changed in the way the pyramid is.
Disagree. Birmingham are stratospherically ahead of all of those teams when they were down here.
 

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Disagree. Birmingham are stratospherically ahead of all of those teams when they were down here.
I really don't think they are. The Southampton team did back to back, look at Ipswich only two years ago coming up from here. There's always some really big, good teams down here, I'm seeing no change in the general landscape whatsoever. Birmingham's fees have caught the eye, granted. But everyone seems to spend more.

It's very, very difficult for the the typical League One/Two sized clubs to make the Championship but it always has been. That's why pretty much all our Halcyon days are when we were in the 2nd tier. It's almost the pinnacle for most of us.
 

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The difference is all those other big clubs apart from the likes of wolves and maybe Southampton, all came down with at least some question marks over their ownership, thats why sheff weds, Derby, Sunderland Ipswich and pompey never went up immediately it took some time for them, we have no issues over the ownership and have a clear plan to move up the leagues.
 

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The difference is all those other big clubs apart from the likes of wolves and maybe Southampton, all came down with at least some question marks over their ownership, thats why sheff weds, Derby, Sunderland Ipswich and pompey never went up immediately it took some time for them, we have no issues over the ownership and have a clear plan to move up the leagues.
Leicester and Norwich both pissed it first time in our last two seasons in this league (07-08 and 08-09).

It happens all the time. Big gap between the traditional 2nd tier minimum teams and the traditional 3rd/4th tier teams.

The good news is you will go up at a canter, the bad news is it'd be nothing particularly unique or special. IMO.
 

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I remember that Southampton side having the likes of Schneiderlin, Lallana and a young Oxlade-Chamberlain, very handy.

(Rickie Lambert, too, but he wasn't that impressive to County fans....)
 

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I remember that Southampton side having the likes of Schneiderlin, Lallana and a young Oxlade-Chamberlain, very handy.

(Rickie Lambert, too, but he wasn't that impressive to County fans....)

he started off very slow for us and didnt score for a while. I remember the first game he played at the Mem and it looked like his feet were trapped in cement, he barely moved.
Gas legend now though like
 

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I remember that Southampton side having the likes of Schneiderlin, Lallana and a young Oxlade-Chamberlain, very handy.

(Rickie Lambert, too, but he wasn't that impressive to County fans....)
Yep. And Brighton pipped them to the league

Leeds with Snodgrass, Beckford and that Argie they had up top. Howson and Delph in midfield. Very good side and I don't think they even won the league either did they? Norwich won it.
 

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I wish that people saying that Wrexham buy the league when Birmingham spend around £30 million a season.
Now that's buying the league. For what it's worth Birmingham should get over 100 or over points this season since the signing of Stansfield.
 

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Sounds like Wasps are going to be playing at the Valley if they are successful in securing their return to the Rugby world for the new season. Grounds staff are going to have their work cut out with Charlton Men, Women and now Wasps all playing on the Valley turf!
 

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Sounds like Wasps are going to be playing at the Valley if they are successful in securing their return to the Rugby world for the new season. Grounds staff are going to have their work cut out with Charlton Men, Women and now Wasps all playing on the Valley turf!
Back in London then after their failed trips elsewhere ?
 

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Sounds like Wasps are going to be playing at the Valley if they are successful in securing their return to the Rugby world for the new season. Grounds staff are going to have their work cut out with Charlton Men, Women and now Wasps all playing on the Valley turf!

Got to be good for the standard of the pitch...
 

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Our assistant coach Andy Mangan is joining Real Madrid according to The Athletic. Not surprised someone has been poached from Challinor's coaching laboratory . Just what is it they're cooking in there?
 

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Be difficult for him to work with a cheaper assembled squad, brave move for him.
 

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Our assistant coach Andy Mangan is joining Real Madrid according to The Athletic. Not surprised someone has been poached from Challinor's coaching laboratory . Just what is it they're cooking in there?
nonsense. They clearly saw 'Bristol Rovers Interim manager' on his CV :bg:
 

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Our assistant coach Andy Mangan is joining Real Madrid according to The Athletic. Not surprised someone has been poached from Challinor's coaching laboratory . Just what is it they're cooking in there?
Denied a work permit, massive shame.

(Hope he didn't vote Leave...)
 

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He might be able to get a club higher up now he has been linked to Real Madrid
 

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Crawley have decided to switch match day ticket providers. Fair enough, the present set up isn't fit for purpose. The switch will, take effect after the home game v Bolton on 28th September. We are switching to Kaizen. No idea if they're any good or not.

One little problem. All season ticket holders have to swap their cards over after the Bolton match and before the Mansfield match on the Tuesday after. Those who don't will not be able to get in to the Mansfield game. That's Saturday until 6pm. Monday office hours and Tuesday up until the game. The club are hoping for a seamless switch over.

We're only a little club with 2000 season ticket holders and a small backroom staff...and the club is hoping for a seamless switchover!

Casey
 

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Crawley have decided to switch match day ticket providers. Fair enough, the present set up isn't fit for purpose. The switch will, take effect after the home game v Bolton on 28th September. We are switching to Kaizen. No idea if they're any good or not.

One little problem. All season ticket holders have to swap their cards over after the Bolton match and before the Mansfield match on the Tuesday after. Those who don't will not be able to get in to the Mansfield game. That's Saturday until 6pm. Monday office hours and Tuesday up until the game. The club are hoping for a seamless switch over.

We're only a little club with 2000 season ticket holders and a small backroom staff...and the club is hoping for a seamless switchover!

Casey
Who do you use at the mo...they must be pretty bad if they're to be dumped with the season already underway!
 

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It's like a credit card . Nothing wrong with it. Just won't work on the new system.

Casey
 

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Crawley have decided to switch match day ticket providers. Fair enough, the present set up isn't fit for purpose. The switch will, take effect after the home game v Bolton on 28th September. We are switching to Kaizen. No idea if they're any good or not.

One little problem. All season ticket holders have to swap their cards over after the Bolton match and before the Mansfield match on the Tuesday after. Those who don't will not be able to get in to the Mansfield game. That's Saturday until 6pm. Monday office hours and Tuesday up until the game. The club are hoping for a seamless switch over.

We're only a little club with 2000 season ticket holders and a small backroom staff...and the club is hoping for a seamless switchover!

Casey
We are with Kaizen and our away tickets not on sale yet, so we might have to buy via your site, like we did at Sutton last season.
 

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If you find the building\refurbishment of football stands interesting this is a good watch.

Within a couple of years we will have a redeveloped Bish stand with 1500ish safe standing capacity, up to 10 corporate boxes above. The next stage is to fill the corners in between the main Ian Greaves stand but that’s further down the line.
 

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We are with Kaizen and our away tickets not on sale yet, so we might have to buy via your site, like we did at Sutton last season.
We are switching to Kaizan after the Bolton game. What could go wrong

Casey
 

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We are switching to Kaizan after the Bolton game. What could go wrong

Casey

We’ve been with Kazan for a while now not been any problems, obviously swapping mid season is not ideal mind.
 

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That will be the future now George. It will be hard for teams coming up from league 2 just to survive from now on
Wrexham, Stockport, Mansfield and Crawley might be the last set of teams that all have a chance of surviving

You would fancy Bradford, MK Dons, Doncaster and perhaps Chesterfield of having a chance of staying up but outside those 4 it will be very difficult to stay up

Nonsense. You act as if League 2 is the Lancashire Combination League and League 1 the Prem.

All 4 teams this year will be fine including a Crawley side favourites for relegation from L2 last year with a whole new side yet again and each year there will be a new strong set of teams at the top of L2.

Football is cycles isn't it so soon it will be Oldham and Scunthorpe coming back up again with momentum.
 

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Nonsense. You act as if League 2 is the Lancashire Combination League and League 1 the Prem.

All 4 teams this year will be fine including a Crawley side favourites for relegation from L2 last year with a whole new side yet again and each year there will be a new strong set of teams at the top of L2.

Football is cycles isn't it so soon it will be Oldham and Scunthorpe coming back up again with momentum.
look at every club promoted since 2019/20 not counting the 4 last season as they have yet to complete a season
Off the top of my head Swindon, Crewe , Bristol Rovers, Cheltenham, Morecambe, Port Vale, Northampton came up Northampton and Bristol Rovers twice So 7 teams have gone back down in the last Five seasons.
I do not think the 4 teams that came up will survive

Crawley and Mansfield will struggle. I had Mansfield surviving until they lost two of their better players in the Window
Wrexham will fall just short of the play offs and Stockport may just get in them.
All about opinions and plenty have Bolton to finish bottom half and that is fine
 

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it’s easy to say because we got promoted in it, but the standard of the top three in L2 last season was the best I remember, comfortably at that too.

We lost our best player and our third choice striker, who we let go because he wanted minutes and was behind Lee Gregory and Will Evans. FYI.
 

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Northampton fans....How's James Wilson doing for you? I noticed on a number of occasions he's been an unused substitute.
 

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