I know it won't affect our season next year but a lot of those clubs in League 2 still mean a lot to me regarding games played against them. [TABLE="class: table-stats, width: 336"] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position, bgcolor: #DCDCDC"]18[/TD] [TD="class: team-name, bgcolor: #DCDCDC"]Torquay[/TD] [TD="class: played, bgcolor: #DCDCDC, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, bgcolor: #DCDCDC, align: right"]-7[/TD] [TD="class: points, bgcolor: #DCDCDC, align: right"]52[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]19[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]Plymouth[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-8[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]52[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]20[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]York[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-11[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]52[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]21[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]Dag & Red[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-6[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]51[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]22[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]Barnet[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-10[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]51[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team divider, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]23[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]Wimbledon[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-23[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]50[/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: team, bgcolor: #F5F5F5"] [TD="class: position"]24[/TD] [TD="class: team-name"]Aldershot[/TD] [TD="class: played, align: right"]45[/TD] [TD="class: goal-difference, align: right"]-16[/TD] [TD="class: points, align: right"]48[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] All of the above teams could drop down to the Conference next season. It is going to be a nail biting day for some fans as news of other teams scoring comes through and travels through the supporters. Dagenham host York which is the only match where they can directly have an effect on the outcome. So who would you like to see survive and why?
Aldershot are doomed IMO, so it's a case of who will join them going down. I'd particularly like Wimbledon and York to stay up. Nice clubs with a bit of romance about the former and lovely city for the latter. Torquay, well I'd feel for them losing Ling in such a way and then going down. Plymouth and Daggers fans are pretty good people, which I suppose leaves Barnet. They always stay up though, much like Wigan in the Premiership! It would also be good for the lower leagues with the whole Edgar Davids connection if they stayed up. So, I don't know. Realistically, I can't see Torquay or Plymouth going down - that would require them losing to be combined with a draw between York and the Daggers, and wins for Barnet AND Wimbledon.
Barnet and Dagenham have relatively poor support in terms of numbers and their grounds are not really up to the League standard (though I dont know what the new Barnet ground in Harrow is like). However, I do remember the sporting Dagenham fans who shook our hands when we were leaving the stadium after we had beaten them on the last day of the regular season a few years back so on that basis I would prefer Barnet to go down, especially considering they were very lucky to stay in the League years ago after making improper payments to their players.
given what plymouth went through for 2 years, i would like them to stay up, together with the gulls. barnet have been so near the drop, i think they will go down with york or daggers.
I have an odd soft spot for Barnet and was glad they won in the last game at Underhill. Gonna regret not having gone there, like Gay Meadow.. Don't think anyone would be too mortified at Daggers going down despite how nice they are. Aldershot's a dreadful place (no disrespect to anyone who's great nan once stopped at a petrol station there!) although I liked the ground. Christ, if they go down my 92 count's gonna be lower than at the start of the season with their ground being non league
If you are studying the more artistic subjects or D&T ones at 6th form then in September you might be able to look out at the shambles that has been built on the Gay Meadow. Some of the new gardens, although raised 6 foot than the old meadow, still flooded this winter!!!
Not just artistic ones, I'm having to walk over for English and History but stay in the main building for Maths and Physics. Pain in the neck if I have a day like Maths, history, maths, English, physics.
Sad to see any of them drop out. All decent away places with friendly folk. Plymouth probably deserve to go down the most, as a penalty of being a bigger club and squandering their resources whilst the others always have coped, sometimes well, on shoestring budgets.
whoever goes down its a bloody hard place to get back out of, and look at Stockport county!!,a well supported team but boardroom level they were inept, Luton have struggled too with crowds of over 6000, York who came up last season could go straight back down again, no doubt the quality has improved in the BSP over the last few years and a lot of teams will be very nervous come next week that's for sure, and talking of quality i watched airbus beat new saints the other day and the quality of play isn't that much difference to what ive been watching here all season !!
Hope Daggers stay up - had a soft spot for them since coming across their friendly fans on the old 606 board and their away fans were good when we won promotion a year ago. Also want York to stay up. One season back in the league isn't enough, plus it's a lovely city. Would like Wimbledon to continue their noble story in the league too. Not fussed either way about Aldershot. Apart from that, I only wish it was Port Vale or Gillingham down there!