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Trek wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 5:27 pm Wazzafan’s prediction is Stratford Town remain in the Southern Premier.

BartonRaz wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 11:20 am

Trek wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 5:27 pm Wazzafan’s prediction is Stratford Town remain in the Southern Premier.

My Dad would be horrified by that as an AFC R&D Season Ticket holder living in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

It appears it's been updated again and Stratford are now back in the Central League projection. Bishop Stortford have moved back out to accommodate them.

sussexdiamond wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 7:24 am I expect the good people of Banbury would be cross. I would imagine the league most clubs would want to avoid is the SW Premier, which looks likely to stretch from Bognor to Taunton and up to Merthyr and include borderline clubs such as Dorking and Banbury.

Olly wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 4:48 pm League Allocations confirmed, as we expected! And absolute confirmation that we will resume our rivalry with them up the road in the league

https://cdn.thenonleaguefootballpaper.c ... 8-19-3.pdf

Longest trip is Lowestoft for us, 132 miles, but for me, the most baffling thing on there is the NPL East and UCL clubs Wisbech and Yaxley having to go to bloody Morpeth, 217 and 222 miles respectively! Wasn't this reshuffle meant to reduce distances? For step 4 teams previously used to going no further than Milton Keynes, now having to have to go to Morpeth seems absurd, no wonder clubs at step 5 refuse promotion