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NPL Watch 23/24

Witton man said:
Looks a tidy player - can see why he’s binned 74 off (twice).
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Connection with Goody and certainly more £ and better ground would have probably swung his decision!

First time round was to see if he could play at a higher level (plus more wing) - something you can’t blame the lad for

Interesting to note that 4 of Leek’s championship squad are ex 74 players ditto your own. Joe Woolley scoring for fun now at Bootle too.

Imagine where we’d be if we’ still had those 8 players plus Jack Marrow Jonah and Wools?

Much higher up the table that’s for sure, but I’d hate do see what our bank balance would be! 😳
 
It's just a conversation.

If ever there was a time to have an injury crisis, its when you've already won the league...
 
James Wood said:
Not denigrating Albion’s performance as I wasn’t there, but re Leek it might have been a case of taking their foot off the gas.
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think you are probably right there James , clubs need something to fight for at this stage of the season which is probably why Hednesford stepped on the gas when they bullied Witton off the park end of last month .Leek are crowned Champs anyway so Witton probably got a pass, their bigger game is Saturday against a bang in form C of L.
 
Lancylad said:
think you are probably right there James , clubs need something to fight for at this stage of the season which is probably why Hednesford stepped on the gas when they bullied Witton off the park end of last month .Leek are crowned Champs anyway so Witton probably got a pass, their bigger game is Saturday against a bang in form C of L.
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Our last four league games have all been of equal importance.
Literally 4 cup finals.
 
Witton miss out on the play-off on goal difference
And Kidsgrove finished 3rd bottom which is pretty impressive when they got 21 points from their first 7 games. 18 points from the next 31!
 
Edge said:
Witton miss out on the play-off on goal difference
And Kidsgrove finished 3rd bottom which is pretty impressive when they got 21 points from their first 7 games. 18 points from the next 31!
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We dominated most of the game and suffered some (lets say) unusual refereeing decisions, but in the end could not find the second goal that would have taken us through. We gave it a good shout on and off the pitch, so no complaints really. Where we really screwed up was a spate of heavy defeats at the end of last year - Trafford, Stalybridge, Prescott, Leek come to mind where we imploded and never recovered the goal difference that in the end proved crucial. As its been said elsewhere, getting relegated is the easy bit but getting back up is somewhat more difficult. Happy holidays all
 
Knutsfordian said:
We dominated most of the game and suffered some (lets say) unusual refereeing decisions, but in the end could not find the second goal that would have taken us through. We gave it a good shout on and off the pitch, so no complaints really. Where we really screwed up was a spate of heavy defeats at the end of last year - Trafford, Stalybridge, Prescott, Leek come to mind where we imploded and never recovered the goal difference that in the end proved crucial. As its been said elsewhere, getting relegated is the easy bit but getting back up is somewhat more difficult. Happy holidays all
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I’d say that your more recent defeats at Hanley and Hednesford cost you your play off place
 
Charliebel said:
Those certainly didn't help, but our form pre Christmas was poor at best.
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But you really ought to have picked up some points from these two games. Hednesford came to our place in mid-March and we’re truly dreadful. Won 1-0 but we had our keeper sent off after 3 minutes and they scored from the resulting Free kick.

And 3 days later we lost 1-0 to Hanley at Estadio Townfield and they were equally as awful
 
James Wood said:
I’d say that your more recent defeats at Hanley and Hednesford cost you your play off place
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Yep they certainly didn't help, with Hednesford result being particularly poor, but we went through a series of defeats regularly shipping 4 goals and we never clawed back that deficit. All conjecture now though. What is evident is how difficult it is to regain positions lost through relegations. Lets hope for some joy in the Euros this summer !!
 
While it will help the coffers, Witton’s cause next season might well be boosted if Bury miss out on promotion. The wage bills of fellow member clubs don’t need to be artificially inflated by any Bury player shopping spree.
 
Knutsfordian said:
Yep they certainly didn't help, with Hednesford result being particularly poor, but we went through a series of defeats regularly shipping 4 goals and we never clawed back that deficit. All conjecture now though. What is evident is how difficult it is to regain positions lost through relegations. Lets hope for some joy in the Euros this summer !!
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I doubt if they’ll provide me with much joys. For my sins I’m a Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 supporter ❤️ and our record in making it out of the group stages is about as impressive as 74’s record this season 😳
 
Knutsfordian said:
Yep they certainly didn't help, with Hednesford result being particularly poor, but we went through a series of defeats regularly shipping 4 goals and we never clawed back that deficit. All conjecture now though. What is evident is how difficult it is to regain positions lost through relegations. Lets hope for some joy in the Euros this summer !!
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You are bang on about how difficult it is for clubs to regain their previous stays following relegation. Albion are a case in point as since being relegated from the Conference 30 years ago (where has that time gone?!😳) by the end of next season Albion will have spent 15 seasons at Step 4. And the first time Albion dropped down to Step 4 it took them 7 years to get back to step 3 😳
 
Hednesford part company with Paul Moore. No surprise there really*
Fan expectations are a big name Manager (“give him whatever funds he wants”) and a step 3/4 quality squad. Clearly their previous financial travails have been forgotten. They still have hopes of a reprieve.

* this post may need moving to Midlands League watch in the coming weeks 😉👀
 
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James Wood said:
You are bang on about how difficult it is for clubs to regain their previous stays following relegation. Albion are a case in point as since being relegated from the Conference 30 years ago (where has that time gone?!😳) by the end of next season Albion will have spent 15 seasons at Step 4. And the first time Albion dropped down to Step 4 it took them 7 years to get back to step 3 😳
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Incorrect - this was Witton’s seventh season at step four, with the majority of the time spent at step three during this time. But still, barely the hallmark of a stable club - it’s rarely boring 😂

1991 - promoted to step one
1994 - relegated to step two
1997 - relegated to step three
2009 - relegated to step four
2012 - promoted to step three
2015 - relegated to step four
2017 - promoted to step three
2022 - relegated to step four

Missing out on the NPL title on GD in 06/07, followed by blowing a seven month lead in the final week of the 07/08 season - then getting relegated in 08/09 is just about the most ‘classic Albs’ thing of all time 🙃
 
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