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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Mrs Warbouys on May 15, 2017, 08:27:20 PM
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Not that it will involve us for a while, however at this weekends AGM there is a proposal being discussed to extend the conference premier/north & south playoffs from four to six team, using the following format in one legged ties
Qualifier
4th v 7th
5th v 6th
Semi
2nd v 4th/7th
3rd v 5th/6th
Final
Wembley for the conf prem &
Highest placed club v other semi winner in north & south
I bet they vote for it, why would any club vote against more playoff places
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By 2030 all the top 16 will be involved. Why bother having a league ? I'm old school....three up, three down (or maybe four when the Nortb/South divide kicks in). Despite us having twice won playoffs from 5th place, I don't broadly favour the idea.
And no, I'm not a closet Tranmere fan !
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It does open the conference out a bit I suppose if this had been in place over the last ten years. I bet Kidderminster will be voting for it!
Stevenage
Histon
Kidderminster
Oxford
Kettering
Crawley
Kidderminster
Darlington
Kidderminster
Southport
Hereford
Luton
Braintree
Kidderminster
Macclesfield
Woking
Tranmere
Eastleigh
Dover
Barrow
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By 2030 all the top 16 will be involved. Why bother having a league? I'm old school....three up, three down (or maybe four when the Nortb/South divide kicks in). Despite us having twice won playoffs from 5th place, I don't broadly favour the idea.
And no, I'm not a closet Tranmere fan !
Couldn't agree more. Next step the Rugby League format - top 8 playoff, middle 8 playoff, playoff for anyone not yet involved in a playoff - sorry, it sounds a bit too much like the old Northern Premier League Cups scenario, but there we go. This year's farce has a club that didn't even meet the original criteria for a play-off place (Chorley) almost going up into Conf Nat & the club that finished second in Conf Nat not getting its just deserts - mind you, since that does mean we're rid of Dale Vince for a while at least maybe it's a blessing in disguise. The only real footballing justification for a playoff (other than the statistical freak of identical playing records) is if you have three promotion places & only two feeder leagues (which was the case in the first season of Conf North & South) - all the other scenarios are money-making exercises above all else.
Incidentally, anybody else noticed the nauseating stuff on Radio 4 news about the village club that's been promoted to the big league? I didn't listen to the report - the way it was trailed made me sick enough. Mr. Vince must be rubbing his hands at that sort of publicity ...
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That's the way it is now, and forest green join the long list of clubs to fly past us. It's a falsehood but money can buy you that. We must also remember in our heyday we weren't shy of flashing the cash so I suppose it's sort of relative. I like playoffs for the fact they extend the season for so many clubs, but I would like to see the original format returned where clubs at the bottom of one league playoff against a side near the top of the league below