Can we still stay up

[Luci]

That's the most depressing of all the depressing facts I've heard lately. 

Thought the same!

[Lumps]

Just had a go at the BBC predictor thingy, & admitedly being a tad optomistic had us as staying up with 3 wins & three draws to stay up with two points to spare on 47. Am I totally mad or is it still possible ?

You realise that means picking up 12 points from 6 games. And that we've only managed to accumulate 13 since the Wendies game at the beginning of December? That's 22 games ago!

Yes, you're completely fucking deluded.

[chalkies_shorts]

I think the question should be more along the lines of "when we get relegated, do we still get behind the team for the reamining games or do we let the fuckers have it?"

[Reg Smeeton]

Are you sure? Attendances of 4-5000 and a ground capacity of 7,653 (which they haven't filled once since they moved to it in '94) is a similar sized club?

Yes I'd say so...a mega club is going to get attendances of say 60-80,000

A very big club will get attendances of 40-60,000

A big club 20,000-40,000

Middling clubs will average 10,-20000

Small clubs > 10,000

Next season with perhaps the exception of Bradford City...we'll be in a league with a lot of other small clubs.

[axs]

Your last category accounts for half of all league clubs.

[Reg Smeeton]

Your last category accounts for half of all league clubs.

Indeed...the lower Divs of FL is made up of largely small clubs, usually in some kind of financial mess caused by trying to escape their natural state. Occasionally clubs can escape, but I'll hazard a guess, if you look at a random season like 68/69 and study Divs 3 and 4, most of the clubs will be in Div 3 or 4 in 2010/11.

[axs]

That Doesn't make us the same size club as Northampton.

[Reg Smeeton]

That Doesn't make us the same size club as Northampton.

Ok... looked at that and of the 48 sides in Div 3 and 4 that season, 4 are now playing at championship level.  Reading, Watford, Donny and Swansea.

You could say that Reading and Watford have done enough, to be now be classed as middling clubs, Swansea could be making that transition as well.

The 10 clubs lost to Conference or lower since then shows it's become easier to drop down than go up.

[axs]

I agree, we're the best part of twice the size of noton though.

[Arriba]

no chance of staying up.fitton having a pop at the players,twitter updates from players.
plus the we aint won since the birth of christ.
the sooner its confirmed the better i think.then the clearout can begin and plan for next year.

[nochee]

no chance of staying up.fitton having a pop at the players,twitter updates from players.
plus the we aint won since the birth of christ.
the sooner its confirmed the better i think.then the clearout can begin and plan for next year.

I dont mind confirming it

WE ARE DOWN.

[Arriba]

thanks.

[THE FLASH]

Down...

Take a bite of the shit sandwich!

[Lumps]

Yes I'd say so...a mega club is going to get attendances of say 60-80,000

A very big club will get attendances of 40-60,000

A big club 20,000-40,000

Middling clubs will average 10,-20000

Small clubs > 10,000

Next season with perhaps the exception of Bradford City...we'll be in a league with a lot of other small clubs.

By your argument that makes us "the same size" as Supermarine, Salisbury or Purton

[Reg Smeeton]

By your argument that makes us "the same size" as Supermarine, Salisbury or Purton

I'm here to dish out abuse, if you want an argument, then try room 12A, just along the corridor.