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Leagues are continually being restructured, expanded, contracted… evolving.
Let’s deem it to be an organic body rather than an immovable mountain range.I opened in my first sentence with the distribution (locality) of the clubs and the amount of travelling.
Less miles is a cost saving for clubs and supporters alike.
If you look at whom we will be playing next season, you will see that there aren’t many local or even close games!
Gloucester 175 miles and a shade over 3 hours.
It’s hardly regional football at those distances.
Massive gap? You’ll have to do better than that!
Last season we were a L2 club – next season we are NLN.
Season after, we may be Northern Premier!The gap? Ha ha.
Yeah, like everyone has been breathing down Wrexham & County’s necks all season!
It’s not about fewer games.
It’s about saving money on travel costs and making it more affordable for fans and actually regional.Kapish?
No, I don’t capiche.
You would need to disrupt a lot of leagues across the whole country, at the same time, to implement what you suggest.
The arguement that we have dropped 2 leagues in 2 seasons does not support your argument. It supports mine. Can you imagine our current mob against League 2 teams?
In terms of travelling time, many of our supporters travel the length & breadth of the country to follow the team. Then there are people like me who live a long way from Scunny so appreciate less travel on occasion.
Yes, we might save some money but the competition would not be as strong – in all 3 areas that you would break it down in.