I hope that you won't want to win it in case the next round is outside of the North East....#whydononeofthemwanttogoup
Didn't expect this old chestnut to rear it's ugly little head oh here but the simple fact is that most NL clubs would lose money travelling to the Manchester area or even further for a midweek game.Players can't get time off work a lot of the time as well.Our league chairman - Mike Amos ( the Northern Echo journalist) has badgered the F.A on numerous occasions for a more regionalised Northern set-up but up until now has fallen on deaf ears.
Having said that Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland and I think Dunston are applying for promotion this season and obviously Darlo will be taking their obviously easy( according to their fans) promotion.
Perhaps the answer is enforced promotion but we don't want to be putting clubs out of business