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There was a southern league as well !

 

That's what I said. Or am I missing something?

 

My memory is distinctly hazy for anything football wise pre 1992... but well done, nonetheless

 

Don’t know if this is a good idea or not but I’ve heard it suggested the League Cup starts before the league season then the third round and subsequent rounds can be earlier.

 

That's what they do in Scotland init?

 

would help if i had written Northern as meant to

 

Phew. Glad it's not me for once!

Don't think we won that one though tbh

 

actually looking back i think my original "joke" was their was a southern ,league as well .
but now wish i had never posted it

 

Yeah. Not the worst idea apart from half your squad being cup-tied should you get to the third round. Unless cup-tied is no longer a thing.

 

While it's great getting a tie against a Prem club, I'd still rather win L2 than the League Cup, so much so I actually hate the first round of the LC because it brings risk of injury to your players when the season has only just started, so I wasn't overly disappointed when Swansea knocked us out in the first round. At least with the FA Cup the timings are better.

 

Chelsea clinging on against the Swiss Serviettes. They’ll fold easily.

 

Really? You’ve seen a few promotions and L1 is mostly the same with the occasional battering off Birmingham/Wrexham/Bolton. Give me a trophy any day.

 

L2 is the absolute pits, don't mind L1. I've often said I'd rather be in the National League than L2, so I've always been for South and North split combining L2 / NL. In L1 I have no expectation, in L2 I just want to get out of it, so play-offs has to be the minimum goal for any manager. Although quality is slowly improving due to the money that started getting invested in the fifth tier, it made everyone else up their game. Nowt worse than a Morecambe game on a freezing cold November night - it really does sort out the diehards from the fairweather fans.

 

I didn't know your club even existed until we beat you 7 - 1 in a league cup second leg tie and them got revenge over Notts Forest 4 - 1 in the next round

But yes it's all about perspective. unfortunately for us the best we achieved in the top division was second to Liverpool at a time when they were un beatable, the Man City of that era

 

I did a section in my Economics dissertation on going back to a N/S split. The topic was something along the lines of finding ways to make lower league football more financially viable. Will have to dig it out but the conclusion was the N/S divide would be a bad idea financially overall.

Though this was 12 years ago and I was cramming a six months of work into a month and just writing any old **** to tick boxes to get a 2.1 so maybe. I think MK Dons (scum) were the most northern South club when I drew the line.

 

Yeah there use to be a N/S divide but before my days, I assumed there was some reason it didn't work for it to be changed. From what I gauged it didn't benefit clubs in the middle who could be chucked either side of the domain with very little travel time or expense gained from it. There was a time when the NL had the likes of Ebbsfleet, Maidstone, Bromley possibly even Dartford in it, along with a load of other southern clubs (D&R, Southend, Crawley etc) so it made it an attractive proposition. Although looking at the current top ten, I'd want to fook it off lol, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Rochdale....well at least we'd get Barnet.

 

Imagine it made more sense if Division 4 players weren’t full-time (no idea if they were but guess most then had other jobs of some description). Even now some of those Conference South slogs are brutal. Truro away on a Tuesday night from north of London then into work on Wednesday. Grim.

 

Watching the closing minutes of Larne v Lincoln Red Imps. Life has been better. Red Imps miss a huge chance for the late equaliser. Drama here in front of a packed crowd.

 

Talking of the national league and I've just seen Eastleigh are currently top of it. Play 2nd place Gateshead away on Saturday.

Presumably won't last but it'd be beyond mental to see them as a league club.