Mid-Table Mediocrity

[Col ISIHAC.]

What's it like? ;D


NOT being arsey! ;D
Seriously, since the Conf North & South came into being, there's been a few changes. H&W spent much of last season scrabbling around at the bottom of Conf South - and this season are scrabbling around in the play-off places.

So. What's it like to know that, despite this being the brave new world, you just know that your team is destined to finish somewhere between 8th & 14th or so - with nothing to look forward to at the end of the season. Applies too to those clubs in the Ryman / South set-up. Every season someone with money comes along and wanders off with a place at the next level & despite your team seemingly making decent signings, you find yourself stuck in the middle.

Is it possible to accept that some clubs have a natural level ?

[medibot]

Certainly is, Sutton United in step 2 is pretty much our natural level and mid table is all we've really looked to get, the bonus aims of play-offs has spiced things up a bit now. Though not for us this year, i think we are too far off now unless you do the maths and employ blind hope and some kind of performance enhancing wizardry...

[ambersalamander]

Yeah, I agree. Before Conf South when we were in the Ryman League, it wasn't really enough of a challenge, but the Conference proper was just too much for teams like Sutton to cope with. I always said there should be a league in between and I finally got my wish!

[medibot]

Yeah, the Ryman was dying on its sorry little bum before the restructuring. In my opinion, one of the best changes in football for a while. Certainly better than that new offside rule which bears no resemblance to either the old one or the one referees elect to use!