Your predictions for the season...

[dan_wrexhamafc]

Team: Wrexham
Key player(s): Shaun Pearson & Manny Smith, both solid, Pearson leads. but we have 0 cover for them
Your teams biggest strength: Shaun Pearson, Leader
Prediction for where you'll finish: 12-15th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Havant, never been
Tips for Promotion: Salford & Orient
Tips for Relegation: Solihull, Havant, Braintree & Eastleigh or Gateshead

 

[Leewilson]

Team: Daggers
Key player(s): Michael Cheek, Lamar Reynolds
Your teams biggest strength: The unknown quantity.
Prediction for where you'll finish: 17th - 20th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Havant (if I can get there)
Tips for Promotion: Orient and Salford
Tips for Relegation: Solihull, Braintree, Halifax, Havant and Waterlooville

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Team: Leyton Orient
Key player(s): Macauley Bonne
Your teams biggest strength: Offensively Bonne is capable of scoring a lot and with McAnuff, Brophy, Dayton and Koroma I genuinely believe we have the best quality and depth of wingers in non league. Just, questions over much of the rest of the squad.
Prediction for where you'll finish: 10th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: I'm not.
Tips for Promotion: Salford City and AFC Fylde
Tips for Relegation: Solihull, Barrow, Gateshead, Maidenhead

 

[chipmunx]

Team: Barrow
Key player(s): John Rooney/Lee Molyneux for set pieces and wingers Jack Hindle and Nathan Waterston.
Your teams biggest strength: being underestimated by others, being a new (non Paul Cox) squad and teamwork
Prediction for where you'll finish: somewhere between 2nd and 20th depending how we do in the first 46 games....
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: any we win at and any new ones...
Tips for Promotion: Anyone but Salford
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Maidstone, Dagenham, Gateshead.... Gateshead because the name looks like Giveshead - which looks like they'd like to go down

 

[Steve_Wafc]

Team: Wrexham AFC
Key player(s): Could be any one from Shaun Pearson (Manny struggles without him), Luke Young, Nicky Deverdics, Mike Fondop, or someone who has not even signed yet..
Your teams biggest strength: Don’t want to mention anything defensively, even though it’s still probably that. We look a threat from crosses this season at least as Fondop is really good at attacking the flighted ball, which makes a nice change.
Prediction for where you'll finish: Play offs, providing we can bring in some quality with the final few additions.
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Chesterfield always looks nice on tv, so I’ll say that (but it’s probably not).
Tips for Promotion: Barnet, Leyton Orient, maybe Aldershot and us. Definitely can’t think of anyone else..
Tips for Relegation: Havant & Waterlooville, Braintree, Solihull, Halifax.

 

[E10rifle]

Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Chesterfield always looks nice on tv, so I’ll say that (but it’s probably not).

It’s a fucking characterless Lego stadium, like virtually everything else built in the lower leagues these days. It’s like Colchester’s ground got drunk and wandered north.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

But do they sell glittery tiaras and pink cowboy hats in Chesterfield, 'cos they bloody well do at Colchester's ground.

 

[Padge]

Team: wrexham
Key player(s): shaun Pearson
Your teams biggest strength: depth
Prediction for where you'll finish: lower midtable
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: deva... Oh wait.
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Barnet
Tips for Relegation: Eastleigh, havant got a clue how to stay up, Braintree, gateshead

 

[Andy Harrier]

That guy is calling everyone bankrolled. Could he name a non bankrolled national league team? According to Guiseley Steve our owner Is worth 300m!?
Funny I checked our accounts from last year and there is little evidence of any of these old wives rumoours, in fact the Guilsely accounts how the operated at over twice our budget. These guys in the know seem to just spread rumour and assure themselves of its validity.

Just had a quick look at the Solihull's accounts you refer to - some of the notes to the accounts make for some interesting reading and though it's just a snapshot, it would suggest some significant investment had gone in in that year.

 

[Steve_Wafc]

It’s a fucking characterless Lego stadium, like virtually everything else built in the lower leagues these days. It’s like Colchester’s ground got drunk and wandered north.

Sounds wonderful.

 

[EnglishRed]

I will never look forward to visiting Chesterfield. Not after the FA cup QF.

Deryn what are you doing?

 

[GTFCfish]

Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Chesterfield always looks nice on tv, so I’ll say that (but it’s probably not).

You’re in luck Chesterfields ground is mint, don’t listen to this soulless ground bullshit it’s not like that at all, terrific place.

 

[John Still]

Team: Daggers
Key player(s): Our experienced defenders Nunn, Hoyte
Your teams biggest strength: Youthful exuberance
Prediction for where you'll finish: 12th-16th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Whichever turns out to be our end of season weekender
Tips for Promotion: Salford & Chesterfield
Tips for Relegation: Solihull as they lost a very good manager. Eastleigh as the money has now gone. Gateshead again no money & Maidstone, been flirting with it, a poor start and they are gone.

 

[GuiseleySteve]

That guy is calling everyone bankrolled. Could he name a non bankrolled national league team? According to Guiseley Steve our owner Is worth 300m!?
Funny I checked our accounts from last year and there is little evidence of any of these old wives rumoours, in fact the Guilsely accounts how the operated at over twice our budget. These guys in the know seem to just spread rumour and assure themselves of its validity.

You seem to have confused me with someone else, I never mentioned your owner or £300m? I simply stated that clubs with lower gates like ours could not survive/compete at National level without significant additional investment = bankrolled. Ours is no secret - Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics without whom we wouldn't have spent three seasons in the NL.

 

[Hisavent]

Team: Gateshead
Key player(s): Scott Boden
Your teams biggest strength: N/A
Prediction for where you'll finish: Avoid Relegation ( hope so)
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Hartlepool
Tips for Promotion: Hartlepool and Barnet
Tips for Relegation: Eastleigh, Braintree