League One 2022/23 confirmed clubs

[BarrieOwl]

Derby
Ipswich
Cheltenham
Cambridge
Pompey
Bolton
Accrington
Charlton
Shrewsbury
Burton
Barnsley
Lincoln

Likely we will add FGR tomorrow and maybe shed Donny and Wimbledon, 12 from 24 confirmed so far.

 

[Railway Blue]

Accrington do well to survive at this level season after season.

 

[SMH]

Accrington do well to survive at this level season after season.

Top class manager and buy/sell excellently. When I say top class, I don't mean a tactical genius, I mean someone that gets the absolute maximum out of what he has.

 

[PuB]

Top class manager and buy/sell excellently. When I say top class, I don't mean a tactical genius, I mean someone that gets the absolute maximum out of what he has.

Bollocks to that, they’re just very good at shithousing.

 

[Robie]

You can add Oxford to this list now

 

[Greenacres]

We are definitely in League One next season, thanks to a point away at the Gas yesterday, and looking at the list ot the teams we will be joining there is an element of disbelief...some of these teams are huge, in terms of size, history and the challenge they will provide.

Around a decade ago we played Derby in the cup, when we were struggling somewhat in the Conference and they were in the Championship, it remains one of our "I was there games", and still holds the ground attendance record. On the day the atmosphere was amazing, it had a real David and Goliath feel, we gave them a really good game, it took a penalty late in the game for them to seal a 4-3 win...if you had told me back then that we would play them in the Football League one day I would have replied with a mixture of laughter and disbelief.

Then there is Bolton, a club we have a sort of link to, due to the shenanigans over their signing of Christian Doidge...who is now a key player for Hibernian...and the shambolic way that their club was being run at the time. Our Chairman isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is perhaps a bit of an understatement, but he managed to get involved in the row and stood the corner of the fans and players from their club. This is probably the game I am looking forward to the most, not a derby game or anything of the sort, but the atmospere around the games should be pretty friendly.

What can I say about the others, a couple stand out...there is the team from just up the road, who we haven't played that often and who many of our fans don't consider a rival...then the one from the flatlands in the east (not Cambridge) but those Impish folk, who we do consider a major rival (along bizarrely with Grimsby and Tranmere).

This season isn't quite finished, there are three games left to decide who claims the shiny trophy, but I'm now looking forward to the next one. See at least some of you soon.

 

[YEO YEO YEO]

Well done Forest Green, a well deserved promotion. Looked at one point like you may not get over the line, but the strong start has seen it achieved. We'll be seeing you again next season! Hope you enjoy it!

 

[Si Robin]

What can I say about the others, a couple stand out...there is the team from just up the road, who we haven't played that often and who many of our fans don't consider a rival...then the one from the flatlands in the east (not Cambridge) but those Impish folk, who we do consider a major rival (along bizarrely with Grimsby and Tranmere).

I'm already dreading the two games next season. Idiots on both sides treating it like Boca-River when it's more akin with the Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race - both sets of fans secretly wishing it was Gloucester City we were up against because they're our proper rivals.

 

[Greenacres]

I'm already dreading the two games next season. Idiots on both sides treating it like Boca-River when it's more akin with the Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race - both sets of fans secretly wishing it was Gloucester City we were up against because they're our proper rivals.

We will probably have incidents like a few years ago...when allegedly some Rovers fans went to Cheltenham on the morning of the game, with the sole intention of causing trouble...this was reported in the local media, accompanied by a picture of a Police van, in a completely deserted street!

 

[Si Robin]

It's like they're desperate for something to happen.

It really is infuriating - and I know I'm probably now in the minority at Cheltenham now due to the lowering age of our fanbase (a recent poll didn't have Neil Grayson in our best ever XI!!!) and the fact that playing Gloucester seems so much further away than ever. Our whole time in the Football League we were desperate for a rival - everyone we were bothered with though already hated someone else though. Now our younger fans have finally found someone, and the newer FGR fans are the same.

I can't have a derby game against a team I used to go and watch regularly though and that I actually own a shirt of from when I used to go watch them. You don't have that relationship with a rival team.

 

[Greenacres]

It is odd, the noisier fans (South Stand) sing a song about Cheltenham...I've only been following Rovers for about fifteen years or so, having moved here from elsewhere and wanting to go and watch non-league football, but back then it was sung about Gloucester...go figure!

Traditionally our rival is Shortwood, or maybe Gloucester, but in the last few years we were in the National League most of the games that really mattered seemed to be against Grimsby, Lincoln or Tranmere...hence the feeling that they are real rivals whereas most of the League teams in the local area aren't.

I'm really hoping that at least a couple from Exeter, Bristol Rovers, Swindon and Newport get promoted with us, to increase the representation of the West Country (plus nearby Wales) in League One next season...that could make things at least a little bit interesting.

 

[SMH]

We are definitely in League One next season, thanks to a point away at the Gas yesterday, and looking at the list ot the teams we will be joining there is an element of disbelief...some of these teams are huge, in terms of size, history and the challenge they will provide.

Around a decade ago we played Derby in the cup, when we were struggling somewhat in the Conference and they were in the Championship, it remains one of our "I was there games", and still holds the ground attendance record. On the day the atmosphere was amazing, it had a real David and Goliath feel, we gave them a really good game, it took a penalty late in the game for them to seal a 4-3 win...if you had told me back then that we would play them in the Football League one day I would have replied with a mixture of laughter and disbelief.

Then there is Bolton, a club we have a sort of link to, due to the shenanigans over their signing of Christian Doidge...who is now a key player for Hibernian...and the shambolic way that their club was being run at the time. Our Chairman isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is perhaps a bit of an understatement, but he managed to get involved in the row and stood the corner of the fans and players from their club. This is probably the game I am looking forward to the most, not a derby game or anything of the sort, but the atmospere around the games should be pretty friendly.

What can I say about the others, a couple stand out...there is the team from just up the road, who we haven't played that often and who many of our fans don't consider a rival...then the one from the flatlands in the east (not Cambridge) but those Impish folk, who we do consider a major rival (along bizarrely with Grimsby and Tranmere).

This season isn't quite finished, there are three games left to decide who claims the shiny trophy, but I'm now looking forward to the next one. See at least some of you soon.

Congratulations. If I could give you one bit of advice of a fan it would be to enjoy sticking two fingers up at the fans of all the clubs you beat home or away who think they have a divine right to take three points off you because they have bigger crowds.

When will the new ground be finished?

 

[cookiemonster]

Congratulations. If I could give you one bit of advice of a fan it would be to enjoy sticking two fingers up at the fans of all the clubs you beat home or away who think they have a divine right to take three points off you because they have bigger crowds.

When will the new ground be finished?

4 years said the Chairman at a fans forum a fortnight ago.

 

[Greenacres]

Congratulations. If I could give you one bit of advice of a fan it would be to enjoy sticking two fingers up at the fans of all the clubs you beat home or away who think they have a divine right to take three points off you because they have bigger crowds.

When will the new ground be finished?

Thank you...a lot of us still can't believe we will be in League One next season. I haven't been around as long as many, but did see a few games at our old ground before the bug really caught and we were struggling to stay in the Conference. We must be one of the few places, maybe in the World, where the entire population of the place we represent can fit into the football stadia in the town (I reckon our ground and Shortwood, the other team in Nailsworth, can hold somewhere in the region of 7k...that should just about do it).

Yes we are small, there is no denying it, but it is something we love about our club...there could be games next season when we are playing away and there are 20-25k people watching, that seems ridiculous. Our fans are largely pretty polite, not many would stick their fingers up at anyone or anything...we don't have a firm, we have an infirm...but we do sing "from Premier League to Forest Green" whenever appropriate!

 

[Railway Blue]

Top class manager and buy/sell excellently. When I say top class, I don't mean a tactical genius, I mean someone that gets the absolute maximum out of what he has.

Top class manager and buy/sell excellently. When I say top class, I don't mean a tactical genius, I mean someone that gets the absolute maximum out of what he has.

McConville wasn't deemed good enough for us in National League, They took him and he's a regular and a decent goalscorere from midfield for the last 5 or six seasons.

 

[SMH]

McConville wasn't deemed good enough for us in National League, They took him and he's a regular and a decent goalscorere from midfield for the last 5 or six seasons.

That's what a good manager can do for you. Pretty sure Coleman is renowned for spotting Non League gems, Colby Bishop was signed from Leamington for example. PUB is right though, lots of shithousery among the squad as well, but to survive at this level a club like Accrington need that.

 

[YEO YEO YEO]

Thank you...a lot of us still can't believe we will be in League One next season. I haven't been around as long as many, but did see a few games at our old ground before the bug really caught and we were struggling to stay in the Conference. We must be one of the few places, maybe in the World, where the entire population of the place we represent can fit into the football stadia in the town (I reckon our ground and Shortwood, the other team in Nailsworth, can hold somewhere in the region of 7k...that should just about do it).

Yes we are small, there is no denying it, but it is something we love about our club...there could be games next season when we are playing away and there are 20-25k people watching, that seems ridiculous. Our fans are largely pretty polite, not many would stick their fingers up at anyone or anything...we don't have a firm, we have an infirm...but we do sing "from Premier League to Forest Green" whenever appropriate!

You wait until you play Sunderland (if they don't go up). Make sure to check social media if you beat them...guaranteed to be the worst day in their history etc. Always funny to read!

 

[Greenacres]

You wait until you play Sunderland (if they don't go up). Make sure to check social media if you beat them...guaranteed to be the worst day in their history etc. Always funny to read!

That is one game that I am really looking forward to...maybe we could boost our support for the game at their place with a few bored Geordies, we did play in black and white stripes until Dale Vince got his hands on the club and still sing "black and white army" in one of our songs, so they could blend in nicely!

In our first season in the Football League we were pretty pants but did the double on Coventry City, which was a real pinch yourself moment...pretty important really as we only stayed up by a point. Since then it has been a lot different, in four seasons I don't think we have been outside the top ten.

 

[Railway Blue]

That's what a good manager can do for you. Pretty sure Coleman is renowned for spotting Non League gems, Colby Bishop was signed from Leamington for example. PUB is right though, lots of shithousery among the squad as well, but to survive at this level a club like Accrington need that.

Agree about Coleman. He has this knack with Accrington, but fails anywhere else.

 

[Laker]

Thank you...a lot of us still can't believe we will be in League One next season. I haven't been around as long as many, but did see a few games at our old ground before the bug really caught and we were struggling to stay in the Conference. We must be one of the few places, maybe in the World, where the entire population of the place we represent can fit into the football stadia in the town (I reckon our ground and Shortwood, the other team in Nailsworth, can hold somewhere in the region of 7k...that should just about do it).

Yes we are small, there is no denying it, but it is something we love about our club...there could be games next season when we are playing away and there are 20-25k people watching, that seems ridiculous. Our fans are largely pretty polite, not many would stick their fingers up at anyone or anything...we don't have a firm, we have an infirm...but we do sing "from Premier League to Forest Green" whenever appropriate!

It’s a funny old league, really it’s been like two separate leagues in one. Charlton have underperformed but still look like being the best of the bottom 13. If they’d got their act together then there’d be a clear “top 12” and “bottom 12”.

You can enjoy this league (unless it goes really wrong of course), safe in the knowledge you’re two relegations away from the conference. It’s taken the pressure off for us I’d say.

There seems to be more space than in League 2 but you do need to be able to defend a lead. The game is faster and we can go literally minutes without getting a foot on the ball at times. There are some decent names in this league as well - the likes of Bannan, Power, McLean, Gregory, Will Keane etc are genuinely top players and you can see why they are thought of so highly.

You will be on the end of the odd pasting but you’re going to love it.

 

[YEO YEO YEO]

Welcome Exeter! Bit of a trek, but a lovely City!

Means we have Peterborough, Derby, Barnsley, Forest Green & Exeter confirmed from either divison. Just 3rd place and PO winner from League 2 left.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hello everyone. Its been a while...

 

[Devon_Lad]

Ksksjshahahahabwvevtbtlala

 

[PuB]

Ksksjshahahahabwvevtbtlala

Congratulations

 

[Trapdoor]

Yer tis!

Been a while lads. What's changed round here?

Edit: hi masi

 

[HutchECFC]

Evening lads and lasses. How are we all?

 

[WhiteRussian]

Oh Jesus, Devon Lad and Masi in league 1. Whose the absolute best bestest team in the whole wide world.

If that isn't a good reason to get autos I don't know what is.

 

[Moomin]

Evening all.

 

[SVH]

Oh Jesus, Devon Lad and Masi in league 1. Whose the absolute best bestest team in the whole wide world.

If that isn't a good reason to get autos I don't know what is.

When reading their posts it’s like the same person behind the keyboard so no wonder they clash on here.

The league one forum will be a little more lively next season.

 

[PuB]

Oh Jesus, Devon Lad and Masi in league 1. Whose the absolute best bestest team in the whole wide world.

If that isn't a good reason to get autos I don't know what is.

Hang on, I reckon we could live stream a fight between them, it would of course be lots of slapping and hair pulling and they’d both bring their keyboards. But my word, it would be interesting.