Your predictions for the season...

[OneDecentLester]

As we're two weeks away from the season starting, I'm sure most clubs have done the majority of their business by now so thought it'd be a good time to see fans predictions of how their team is going to do next season using this template...

Team: Chesterfield FC
Key player(s): Curtis Weston and Lee Shaw (From what I've seen in pre season)
Your teams biggest strength: With the power and physicality of our team I can see us being a huge threat from set pieces, including throw ins if we sign sam muggleton!
Prediction for where you'll finish: Play-offs
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: The Shay, brilliant traditional old stadium and not too far too travel!
Tips for Promotion: AFC Fylde and ourselves
Tips for Relegation: Eastleigh, Maidstone, Gateshead & Braintree

 

[GTFCfish]

Prediction for where you'll finish: Play-offs

Didn't you predict the same last season in League 2?


Take care.

 

[E10rifle]

Team: Dunkin Donuts FC
Key player(s): Macaulay Bonne
Your team’s biggest strength: Macaulay Bonne
Prediction for where you'll finish: Wherever Macaulay Bonne can be arsed to finish.
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Brisbane Road. Only good ground in the division that’s not in fucking Wales.
Tips for Promotion: Macaulay Bonne in January
Tips for Relegation:Chesterfield, Dagenham, Salford, Hartlepool

 

[EnglishRed]

Team: Wrexham
Key player(s): Shaun Pearson and Luke Young
Your teams biggest strength: although we wont be as good defensively as last year our back 4 is still the foundation.
Prediction for where you'll finish: sneak into play offs I hope...at present we still seem to be lacking a handful of players in key positions
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: no idea. One of the new ones. Who has the shittest ground? That one
Tips for Promotion: Salford
Tips for Relegation: Dagenham, Barrow, Maidenhead and Havant

 

[OneDecentLester]

Didn't you predict the same last season in League 2?


Take care.

Is there a reason why you're a regular poster on the non league forums or are you just preparing yourself for next year???

 

[GTFCfish]

Is there a reason why you're a regular poster on the non league forums or are you just preparing yourself for next year???

Is there a reason why you didn't answer my question?

 

[Fyldefan]

Team: Fylde
Key player(s): Danny Rowe and from yesterday alone Joe Cardle. Stood out like a sore thumb
Your teams biggest strength: Goals, top scorers in our division past 2 seasons
Prediction for where you'll finish: 10th, lost a couple of key players. Theres time to replace them but i think because of their quality it'll be difficult
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: The proact, never been
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Ebbsfleet
Tips for Relegation: Halifax, Maidstone, Gateshead & Barrow

 

[OneDecentLester]

Is there a reason why you didn't answer my question?

Having just come down from league 1 I expected us to atleast make the play offs yes, as we had done well at league 2 level in recent years...

No one thought it was possible to recruit a worse squad than the one we had in league 1 during the 16/17 season but Caldwell and Branston somehow managed it between them.

However I have faith in MA to stop the rot and that's where my optimism comes from

 

[Tranmerewhite]

However I have faith in MA to stop the rot and that's where my optimism comes from

When you lose 2-1 at home to Braintree/Barrow you’ll soon lose all optimism and talking about “glory” years will be the only thing saving you.

 

[wrexham]

Team: Wrexham
Key player(s): We won't get any points without Shaun Pearson in the side
Your teams biggest strength: Shaun Pearson
Prediction for where you'll finish: Between 8th and 12th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Fylde as it's on a Saturday
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Ebbsfleet
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Eastleigh, Gateshead, Barrow

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Team: Barrow
Key player(s): John Rooney/Josh Kay - first time in ages we have attacking midfielders, so it will be interesting to see how they both fit into the equation.
Your teams biggest strength: Looks to be some grafters in this side, who will put in a bit of fight.
Prediction for where you'll finish: 18th/19th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Chesterfield
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Ebbsfleet
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Harrogate, Halifax, Solihull

 

[Railway Blue]

Team: Chester FC
Key player(s): Dan Mooney
Your teams biggest strength: Fresh start after Maguire and McCarthy gave us just about the worst season I can remember.
Prediction for where you'll finish: 8th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Bootham Cresent (amazingly never been).
Tips for Promotion: Stockport and Southport
Tips for Relegation: FCUM, Nuneaton, Ashton United and Leamington.

 

[JaredSUFC]

Team Sutton United
Key player(s) Craig Eastmond
Teams strengths We’re a settled unit
Prediction for where you’ll finish between 1st and 24th. The higher the better
Ground you’re most looking forward to visiting Barnet, Salford and Chesterfield
Pick for promotion Chesterfield
Pick for relegation Eastleigh

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Team Sutton United
Key player(s) Craig Eastmond
Teams strengths We’re a settled unit
Prediction for where you’ll finish between 1st and 24th. The higher the better
Ground you’re most looking forward to visiting Barnet, Salford and Chesterfield
Pick for promotion Chesterfield
Pick for relegation Eastleigh

Is Byron Harrison still with you? Haven't seen any mention of his loan becoming permanent.

 

[East Bank Shot]

Team Aldershot
Key player(s) Scott Rendell
Teams strengths We’ve got good strength in centre midfield.
Prediction for where you’ll finish 11th, lost a lot of key players this summer and currently quite a few players short of a promotion challenge.
Ground you’re most looking forward to visiting Orient (again) and Salford
Pick for promotion Orient
Pick for relegation Gateshead

 

[JaredSUFC]

Is Byron Harrison still with you? Haven't seen any mention of his loan becoming permanent.

He hasn’t been with us at all pre-season

 

[Joseph Smith]

Team: Solihull Moors
Key player(s) Jamey Osbourne
Teams strengths solid hard working unit that defensively set us up for a strong 2018
Prediction for where you’ll finish mid table sort of 11-19. Question marks over losing Yates but seem to have continuity despite that good core we have very few players in the squad as it stands.
Ground you’re most looking forward to visiting: don't go away, but given our location related to others London Manchester the quickest and cheapest to visit, all depends on date, I guess Orient for the day out.
Pick for promotion Orient and Salford
Pick for relegation Gateshead, Braintree, Maidenhead, Barrow

 

[Master D]

Team: Wrexham
Key player(s): Shaun Pearson
Your teams biggest strength: Shaun Pearson, we've nothing without him.
Prediction for where you'll finish: Shaun Pearson Mid-table nothingness
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: None of them
Tips for Promotion: Salford, Borehamwood
Tips for Relegation: Solihull Motors, Gateshead, Barrow, Havant and Whateverthey'recalled

 

[Monkey Tennis]

He hasn’t been with us at all pre-season

Do you think Doswell was just hugely disappointed, or his wage was too high? Was on £1,200 p/w for us, and was unfit for almost a full year.

 

[The Terminator]

Team: Leyton Orient
Key player(s): Mccauley Bonne, James Brophy, Josh Coulson
Your teams biggest strength: We've scored something like 16 goals from set plays since Justin Edinburgh took charge.
Prediction for where you'll finish: Play-offs
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why? Barrow - Only one I Missed last season.
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Barnet
Tips for Relegation: Solihull, Barrow, Gateshead & Braintree

 

[Chief Rocka]

Team: Hartlepool
Key player(s): Andrew Davies, Luke James
Your teams biggest strength: Not having Craig Harrison as manager
Prediction for where you'll finish: Top half
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why? Harrogate, new ground, easy to get to, should take loads there.
Tips for Promotion: Salford, Orient
Tips for Relegation: Barra, Gateshead, Braintree, Havant&W

 

[JaredSUFC]

Do you think Doswell was just hugely disappointed, or his wage was too high? Was on £1,200 p/w for us, and was unfit for almost a full year.

Both most likely. His goal return after his first few games wasn’t great. £1,200 p/w is more than we would pay a player long-term

 

[Benfcht]

Team: Halifax
Key player(s): Dayle Southwell, Niall Maher, Matty Kosylo
Your teams biggest strength: Progressive, entertaining and attacking football
Prediction for where you'll finish: 8th-14th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why? The Proact. Never been and not a far journey. One of the better grounds in the league
Tips for Promotion: Salford, Ebbsfleet
Tips for Relegation: Barrow, Gateshead, Braintree, Maidstone

 

[BeesKnees]

Team: Barnet
Key player(s): Honestly don't know
Your teams biggest strength: John Still
Prediction for where you'll finish: 6th and 10th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: None
Tips for Promotion: Salford and Chesterfield
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Harrogate, Gateshead, Solihull

 

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

Team: Barnet
Key player(s): Dave Tarpey
Your teams biggest strength: Set-pieces
Prediction for where you'll finish: 2nd-10th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Sutton, nice easy journey
Tips for Promotion: Salford & Leyton Orient
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Harrogate, Solihull & Maidstone

 

[CFC91]

Team: Chesterfield
Key player(s): I've never heard of most of them but Ugwu needs a big season, and Joe Rowley is a talent
Your teams biggest strength: I've not seen any of pre season, but we are scoring a few and a lot from set pieces.
Prediction for where you'll finish: Stab in the dark without knowing anything about this league but somewhere between 8th-10th maybe
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: I've got 14 new grounds so will aim to do them. Our big away followings will be Harrogate, Halifax and Salford also so should be good days out.
Tips for Promotion: Salford and don't know
Tips for Relegation: Barrow and Gateshead seem to be the ones struggling the most from reading on here, but don't know much about the rest to comment yet.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Team: Hartlepool
Key player(s): Andrew Davies, Liam Noble, Luke James, Scott Loach
Your teams biggest strength: We have lots of attacking options now so definitely look stronger going forward.
Prediction for where you'll finish: Just outside the play offs, I’ll go with 9th
Ground most looking forward to visiting and why?: Harrogate and Old Proactford
Tips for Promotion: Salford, after that it’s wide open, probably 7/8 teams could say they a decent chance
Tips for Relegation: Braintree, Gateshead, Barrow, Dagenham

 

[Railway Blue]

Why are everyone tipping Barrow for relegation ...… they're a bank-rolled club for fuck sake.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Why are everyone tipping Barrow for relegation ...… they're a bank-rolled club for fuck sake.

*were

 

[Joseph Smith]

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.