Just had a scan through the teams in that league,looks a lot harder than league 2 to get out off. The Rovers are going to have one hell of a job getting out of that league. They are in for one big shock me thinks.
I have wondered when it would happen and next season, it will. But during the dark days of O'Driscoll, I believed it would be City v Forest Green Rovers and not the all Rovers, South Gloucestershire derby match that it will be. I am really relieved it will not be City involved.
Living in Exmouth, and getting local press and coverage-both Exeter and Torquay have gone there before. Both needed the play offs to get out of it. Exeter flirted with it for a while this season, and Torquay are going there again.- Torquay have a weak side. Small attendances and get difficulty attracting players to Devon. I don't see them getting back quickly this time.Only one team goes up by right plus one from the play offs. There are at least 6 teams in that division that could comfortably hold their own in league two and it is surprising how many of them are ex league teams. I think it was 15. I think a lot depends on how Rovers approach next season. If they stay full time, keep their better players and win the league well, it will probably do them good long term.Goal scoring was their main problem and I would guess, a priority.
They will come straight back up, sorry but that league is piss ****ing poor, They will most probably win the league...
hmm it ain't the greatest but many have fell away trying.. The gas will have some massive financial difficulties to overcome now..
I believe you couldn't be more wrong, just ask ex league clubs; Luton Cambridge Grimsby Halifax Barnet Lincoln Wrexham Southport Aldershot Hereford Chester Unless the Gas plan on doing a Crawley and buying their way out of there. If MadDog stays at Barnet he certainly might be having a say in it.
I don't think theres any financial fair play in the conference so teams with rich owners can buy there way out
Nope there isn't, and bizarrely enough they can buy their way out and then have 2 years to get their house in order before they have to abide by FFP. So they could technically buy the best this summer on a three year contract knowing that if it works they can climb into league one on one successful summer. But I suspect they won't be back next season I would guess it would take 3 to get back. They will no doubt lose all their players, the ones that say they deserve to be playing higher league (regardless of the fact they put them there) and the others will slowly depart the sunken ship. All their agents are rubbing their hands now, the vultures are swarming around the club looking for bargains.
Your right there are some very very difficult games in there,they will take time to adjust,a minimum three years a minimum.
The only easy way out of that league is with money, and it sounds like Higgs doesn't want to shell out.
I don't think they've got the dosh, didn't they recently announce their greatest ever debt £6.5m plus internal loans (what ever that means)..
I was looking on the Rovers forum more to gauge their reaction as much as anything. Someone made for me a very good point and had identified that our form had picked up once all talk of Ashton Vale had died off. Rovers on the other hand were, for him, chasing the white elephant of a new stadium and had taken their eye off of the main issue. (ie) The football. I don't know, but I do feel that they are in a very awkward position about what and where their future priorities should lie.
Lets face it, the local opposition in trying to improve the city in very many respects is a joke, and from what I can see, is unique to Bristol. From football stadiums, to a proper international airport and from improving traffic to affordable and reliable public transport, and from a twat of a Mayor to world class concert venues, it's usually NIMBY, aside from the bloody Mayor ! The whole backward city needs a reality check, and if you want to see what can be achieved from starting with virtually nothing, then look no further than at Cardiff. Bristol is great, but some of the basics that other places have worked for to make reality, really let it down.
We all thought that about L1 Shiny, and we got a very rude awakening. I think it would be very naive to assume it will be easy to come straight back up, a lot will depend on the board putting their hands in their pockets to back up a promotion push, and that should prove to the Blue few that they really do take the blame for what happened this season, as they currently claim.....
