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That's a great post and very informative. Cheers.

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

andy wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 11:04

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

fully agree Andy, but talking to the Bromsgrove people we will have to adapt to a different culture. They say that with a couple of exceptions we will be playing on ploughed fields most weeks, and even Messi would look ordinary on them

The division is toilet mostly. I've never seen a game like I did last August when Bromsgrove whacked double figures past Kidlington. I reckon the top seven of Step 5 'Midland Football League' would see off 80% of teams.

Due to the stupid Step 4 playoff system - the 5th and 6th place teams of the division increasingly look like they won't get promoted. That's because they beat each other.

Peterborough Sports who finished mid-table in the Northern Step 4 regional division last season and going to stroll to the title pretty much.

I think we need to be careful in assuming a drop will bring a return to a winning habit. Even.at the highest level losing is very much habitual, just look at Portsmouth and Sunderland on recent years?

I would welcome a new approach in team management. Making best use of our infrastructure and keeping players who want to play for the club. The Grove needs to be one a fortress where visiting sides need to fear with our usual vociferous home support. I just hope we make the right decision with the management role and appoint someone with a long term plan that matches those of Karen and Keith that offers us a team we can rightly proud of.

andy wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 11:04

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

Little Scotland FC away, always plenty to fear there.

andy wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 11:04

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

There's no one to fear at our current level.

Seamus wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 14:35

andy wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 11:04

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

Little Scotland FC away, always plenty to fear there.

They've never been as big a club as us, never will be. It's always been a good laugh going there as well, listening to them bleating as we beat them.

AwayDayYeltz wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 15:03

andy wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2019, 11:04

For what it's worth I will definitely be looking for promotion straight away. Why not? We will likely be the biggest team in the division, with the highest crowds and a decent budget. There should be nobody to fear.

There's no one to fear at our current level.

True. And I think we should aspire to be as consistent as tomorrow's opponents, Kettering have been. They've bounced back from adversity and so can we.

Didnt we all have this positive optimism in August?