A few changes for next season being a non league club...... (man that hurts saying that!) Get use to it guys! 1) We are a Premier League club. Conference Premier League. Well done Mr Higgs but you got us to the wrong Premier League. 2) We wont be involved in the Capital One Cup. Thats money we will be losing out on. 3) We will have to qualify to play in the FA Cup 1st round. Thats embarrassing! 4) We wont be involved in the JPT. Well thats a good thing to be honest. 5) We will have to play in the FA Vase Trophy. Basically the poor mans JPT! 6) We wont have any match commentry on Radio Bristol as they dont cover live non league games. May have to sign up to Gas player! 7) We wont be on the Football League show. No more late nights or early mornings!!! 8) We wont have any goal highlights on the local news channels as they dont cover non league games. Looks like highlights on Gas youtube channel. 9) We may get some live games on BT Sport who have a lot of live games from the conference. As a big club im guessing we may get a live game! 10) We will not have any Financial Fair Play rules in the conference meaning we can spend as much as we like on players and wages. 3 year deals for all then. 11) We will be visiting a lot of grounds for the 1st time. Alfreton, Braintree, Welling, Telford and Eastleigh to name some. (Shaking my head in disbelief) 12) Our local derby will be with Forest Green Rovers (just under 30 miles away from the mem). We are all meeting up at Bluebaldee's house for lunch! 13) We will lose out on TV money from the Football League - around £200k. Feel free to add anymore.
Is it good or bad for the players in the youth setup? Will they be played and have a chance taken on them? Or be neglected in a quest for a return to the football league?
Taken from your official forum. But I'm up for the party at Bluebaldee I bet the posh twat drinks real smirnoff not cheap ****. "Any relegation is difficult for a club. It's a blow to morale and a big financial setback as well. But the costs of relegation from League 2 to the Conference are particularly heavy. Just look at the clubs who have found it difficult to return to the Football League: among them Grimsby, Lincoln, Luton, Mansfield and York (who have had the longest stay at the lower level). With one automatic promotion place and well-funded up-and-coming teams like Fleetwood challenging, it's not an easy league to get out of. Luton have just sacked their manager because an automatic promotion place is effectively beyond their grasp. The financial price includes the immediate loss of the £250,000 Premier League solidarity payment. TV revenue and sponsorship at £430,000 is halved for one year and then goes. Youth development funding of £180,000 a year is halved for two years and then disappears. It's a big contrast with the generous parachute payments clubs relegated from the Premiership receive for three years." This was from 2012 so figures my have changed.
Yep. But according to Higgs we will be debt free when we move into UWE IF we move into UWE. dont know what relegation will do to the stadium plans! will it now happen?
Sometimes you need to go to the bottom (no shiny not that sort of bottom, before you get your ****ing sock ready) to start again and rebuild. It will be difficult, but you might shock people and do it first time of asking.
You will still be on the radio. That wont change, when we are at home you'll be on, you will also still get your highlights on itv. Can't see that changing, you'll be big news in the conference so news and media will want to cover your games to see how you are getting on. If you don't get promoted next season THEN nobody will want to know you as you'll be another big club struggling which will be boring... You will go up next season though, if you don't then I can see your club going bust and doing a Wimbledon! Hope it doesn't come to that.
massive changes are needed at the top. that wont happen as they are involved in the stadium. carlisle are a good example we should be trying to follow when they fell into non league.
Local news on BBC and ITV dont show any non league highlights. Like they dont show Bath City for example and the same goes for radio commentry.
I've been making contingence plans all week but can't say I'm unhappy far from it to be honest but I do wish it could have been two northern clubs like Stanley and the Monkey Hangers who went down as I like our trips to the West Country
But it's Radio Bristol it's the first for them as well, so I suspect they still will do your games as they are trying to follow Bristol sports.
Coming from Bristol, Hartlepool is a bitch to get to as well as Carlisle who just been relegated to League 2.
On the plus side at least Hereford stayed up, so will present a fairly local derby and some good away support. If you thought the away support in L2 is bad, just wait....
FFS we take more fans away to Carlisle than some of the teams in this ****e conference division get at their home games
Chris I didn't mean the Gas away support, we all know you take 40,000+ to away games...LOL I meant the amount you are likely to see at the minimal.
* loss of jobs at the Mem. Many have been told that their jobs were on the line if we went down. * loss of Football League funding for the Community Department. * our successful U18s play in a league with other Football League teams. I guess that won't continue * loan players harder to recruit.....will they want to come to the Conference? * 'floating' new fans in Bristol. 'Shall we go to watch L1 football or Conference?'...no brainer!
Ffp dont apply hmmm. Well looks like the board need to roll the dice and spend big. Or will they do bugger all?
Gateshead's a good drive. Local derbies with Forest Green and Salisbury (are they still there?) Old bogey teams like Macclesfield... Great...
even better, if we do spend big, whenever we manage to get promoted back to league 2 (if we ever do) we wont get hit straight away with the FFP rules that the rest of league 2 will have to follow. we get given adjustment time like a year or 2 to fit in with league 2 FFP rules. thats why you see teams often who get promoted from the conference immediately go straight up to league 1. like crawley did for example. like how fleetwood have nearly done. the restrictions on league 1 with FFP rules is not as bad as it is in league 2. so go down to conference and then spend big. go up to league 2 and continue to spend big while others in league 2 are restricted. go up again and we wont be far off the league 1 FFP rules so not much adjustment needed. sounds easy. however..... spend big in the conference and fail to go up could put us in financial ruin. if we went up and continue to spend big in league 2 while in that adjustment period and fail to go up to league 1 we will have to make massive quick cuts to fit into league 2 FFP rules which could hit us for 6 its a massive gamble!
