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Post by The sound and the fury on May 19, 2019 9:46:05 GMT
Teams just announced for the forthcoming season - lots of sideways moves. We’ve lost Quorn, Shepshed, Loughborough and Westfields to other leagues, plus Wolves and Dunkirk relegated and Ilson promoted. We’ve gained Gresley, Haughmond, Heather St Johns, Newark Flowserve, RC Warwick, Selston and Tividale. Newark is a lot further than the Leics clubs, and I must admit I don’t know where Selston is yet! Heather is by Hinckley, good side.
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Post by The sound and the fury on May 19, 2019 9:47:50 GMT
Selston is in the South Normanton/Alfreton/Heanor triangle.
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Post by The Verner on May 19, 2019 11:48:59 GMT
They move three teams sideways and give us two teams further up country...hats off to the FA
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Post by jupu on May 19, 2019 21:21:00 GMT
I would imagine that our overall mileage next season will be pretty much the same as this. If we get promoted to step 4 it will be a lot more!
We last played Gresley's predecessors in 1998/99. We played RC Warwick in 97/98 season and Haughmond were in our division last season.
Always enjoy visiting new clubs playing at small venues that are part of their local community.
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on May 20, 2019 7:46:47 GMT
Selston is a village in Nottinghamshire. Their pitch is a rectangle of grass with a rail around the edge and two dugouts. It is shared by a cricket pitch so the rail is only on three sides. As jupu says, a small venue serving their local community.
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Post by The Verner on May 20, 2019 9:00:28 GMT
Newark Flowserve, 93 miles !
Bring back Loughborough !
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Post by andymitchell on May 20, 2019 9:11:40 GMT
In a past NLP piece on restructuring, one backed up by Sunday's, plans were revealed for 16 leagues instead of the current 14 at City's level.
One of those is being put in around the north-east Midlands area (Nottingham, etc) which is likely to push the footprint south-westerly.
My thinking is that the FA's thinking is to minimise disruption in the other leagues (ie United Counties League) by changing this now and cutting the MFL as it will be in 2019-20 down the middle, a clean break.
Four teams from each division below will come up to ensure the numbers are right (yes, even in Malvern's new league which has just 14 teams) so there could be a lot of shifting anyway.
And of course I might wrong. They may well not have put much thought into it at all, plenty of step six and seven clubs would probably think that way!
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Post by The sound and the fury on May 20, 2019 9:16:40 GMT
They do make some strange decisions, the FA. I can understand moving the three Leics clubs to the UCL, but Newark is a hell of a long way at this level, especially when they take away a local side in Westfields to a more southern league. I shall miss the Leics three, always enjoyed going there.
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Post by andymitchell on May 20, 2019 9:33:14 GMT
A Bromsgrove base probably does not make it possible but you have wonder whether the Hellenic would have been better for City. From what I've seen the standard is not as high.
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Post by The Verner on May 20, 2019 9:40:41 GMT
In the defence of the FA. Westfield's requested the move, which they had done 12 months ago but at the time were rejected.
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Post by Tim Munslow on May 20, 2019 18:56:17 GMT
Well, at least we can't get hammered by Westfields next season - in the league anyway!
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