I understand that to have a new groundshare agreement the host club must have at least a ten year tenure. Welly clearly don't have that. According to our statement, they were still able to offer a 3 year GS agreement. Presumably if they had a ten year tenure as you have suggested they would’ve been...

I understand that to have a new groundshare agreement the host club must have at least a ten year tenure. Welly clearly don't have that.

Nothing to do with luck this one

As said they will probably the allocations mid May. There could be appeals though, mainly over league allocation rather than Step allocation.

I'd be surprised if you aren't in Step Four.

Great result.

Just waiting on the FA now. A couple of ground grading failures won't hurt either

The NFA make the rules up as they go along with their County Cups. I would be surprised to see Pigman and Stagman upfront :-)

When thinking about reprieves don't forget that Loughborough haven't folded and had their record expunged.

They asked for voluntary relegation so "should" be one of the two clubs relegated.

To my knowledge, voluntary relegations are treated ‘in area’, so 2nd bottom in our league will be reprieved. Which is us. It will be no less than what the club, manager, management squad, players, volunteers, and us fans deserve. Sad for Loughborough Dynamo of course. That is certainly the case for...

If you think the FA will listen to the thoughts of a club at the nether regions of the pyramid you are deluded.

If you mean how is it possible to play an ineligible players then usually an honest mistake or a willful attempt to cheat.