It's a perfectly reasonable article with valid points to create debate and doesn't deserve to be called drivel and so on, although I found its timing very strange. You might even have thought the programme editor had arranged its publication on a day when had a fans' protest and are still, at least in theory, fighting relegation to ensure that somebody else got some flak.
No team has a god-given right to be in a particular division, but I disagree on some of Mike's points. Since the creation of the Alliance Premier League, we have spent the majority of that time in that league's top division, although we have been one of a number of yo-yo clubs along with the likes of Southport and Tamworth in recent years, as the top division has become more professionalised. Also, the difference between "earned" and "achieved" performance is really only valid if Altrincham were the only team ever to have achieved promotion through a play-off or to have been reprieved. Since 2005-06, 50% of promoted clubs have come up through the play-offs, and while I don't have the figures to hand to see how well they have performed compared to the champion clubs (it would be interesting to see that), this means that those clubs are also competing at the higher level in some numbers and our performances are judged against them just as against other clubs.
So, we should still be top half National League North at worst, and I don't think we can put this season, where we have been so far adrift, as just a poor season within our usual parameters.