Next Season - Central League Premier

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Re: Next Season - Central League Premier

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I believe we will have until March 31st next year to bring the ground up to the required standard.
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davealbon wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:19 pm I believe we will have until March 31st next year to bring the ground up to the required standard.
What would actually need to be done? Is it likely to be a question of spending a lot of money or is it just volunteer hours required?
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sussexdiamond wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:48 pm The final line up of our opponents for next season is still some way from being decided.

The play off contenders have now been decided and there are several changes that could happen to that original projected list.
We could have in our division either Bedworth OR Stamford plus Evesham and Cambridge City.
And it is still possible for Leiston to move up to Step 2.
Maybe NEITHER of Kings Lynn NOR K*ttering :hmmm: will be promoted.
If Grantham are not promoted they too come into the equation.

And there is still a question mark over the future of Lowestoft


That's a possible eight changes.If any of those scenario's come about I wonder who would drop out of the projected list.
Stamford and Bedworth won tonight, so one of them will join us next season.
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sussexdiamond wrote: Tue May 01, 2018 9:00 pm
sussexdiamond wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:48 pm The final line up of our opponents for next season is still some way from being decided.

The play off contenders have now been decided and there are several changes that could happen to that original projected list.
We could have in our division either Bedworth OR Stamford plus Evesham and Cambridge City.
And it is still possible for Leiston to move up to Step 2.
Maybe NEITHER of Kings Lynn NOR K*ttering :hmmm: will be promoted.
If Grantham are not promoted they too come into the equation.

And there is still a question mark over the future of Lowestoft


That's a possible eight changes.If any of those scenario's come about I wonder who would drop out of the projected list.
Stamford and Bedworth won tonight, so one of them will join us next season.
Bedworth or Stamford will take Stafford Rangers place, meaning Stafford Rangers will go to the Northern premier league.
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mikerd wrote: Tue May 01, 2018 9:28 pm

Bedworth or Stamford will take Stafford Rangers place, meaning Stafford Rangers will go to the Northern premier league.
Boooooooo!!!
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Re: Next Season - Central League Premier

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sorry Utto I think Mikerd is probably right.
The Northern Premier is pretty well sorted now.

Gainsborough Workington
N Ferriby Mickleover S
S Shields Matlock
Scarborough Nantwich
Hyde Lancaster
Basford Marine
Warrington Whitby
Farsley Stalybridge
Shaw Lane Bamber Bridge or Prescot C.....to be decided in Step 4 play off final.
Witton Albion Ashton Utd or Grantham to be decided in step 3 play off final
Buxton Stafford R.

The Central Division is quite a bit more complicated.

Tamworth St Ives
Needham Market Alvechurch
Rushall Olympic Barwell
Stourbridge Hednesford
Coalville Halesowen
AFC R & D St Neots
Redditch Stratford T
Bedworth or Stamford Lowestoft

That leaves any six from the following nine.
Leiston may or may not be promoted via play offs.
Cambridge City and Evesham could win their respective finals.
Kings Lynn and K*ttering, one or both could be eliminated either tonight or in the final thus remaining at Step 3.
Then that would leave any two from: Evesham, Banbury,Royston, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Leiston to debate which are the furthest south!!

Plus of course, there is still the question over the future of Lowestoft.
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Slough v Poppies 3-1
Kings lynn v Weymouth 3-0

Hartley v AFC Dunstable 2-0 Hartley promoted as they now have best ppg.
Cray Wanderers, Bowers & Pitsea, and Haringey now next in line all with 1.935ppg.

Hayes v Cambridge City 0-1 Something of a surprise that one. I think most of us expected Hayes to win this match.
A win for Cambridge in final would give us another local derby.
Evesham v Swindon Super 1-1 playing e/tSwindon win on pens
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K*ttering 3-1 down in their game so looking like we'll play them next season.

Cambridge 1-0 up vs Hayes, Hartley 2-0 up vs Dunstable.
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Bring on the K*ttering!! :clapping: :cool:
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It’s actually quite astonishing to think that in just 6 seasons we’ve overtaken Corby and are now in the same league as K*ttering. Considering we’ve been run as an entirely self-sufficient fan-owned enterprise and the Poppies (for the last 4 seasons at least) have been funded by significant private investment for this level - from the manager as well as the chairman, it seems - we’ve reached the same level as them much quicker than I ever expected.

Really looking forward to next season, especially as we won’t be playing with heavy expectations. Top half of the table will be great.
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