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Post by simon on May 15, 2017 19:50:00 GMT 1
As of season 2018/19 it seems there will be another league at Banbury's level. According to the Southern League website only the team finishing bottom this coming season will be relegated. If my understanding of the geography is correct we would likely be founder members of the new league. Is that how others see it?
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Post by Steve T on May 15, 2017 22:26:00 GMT 1
Steps 1 and 2 are unaffected by the changes.
Step 3 goes from 3x24 to 4x22 (+16 clubs).
Step 4 goes from 4x22 plus 2x24 to 7x20 (+4 clubs).
As no one yet knows exactly how the divisions will be aligned it's impossible to say where Banbury will be. I've seen two projections (entirely unofficial*). One sees Banbury at the north-eastern tip of a roughly triangular south and south-west division, effectively the current division without the midland and East Anglian clubs and gaining some from the Isthmian League in Surrey and West Sussex. The other puts Banbury in the middle of a more elongated central division running from the midlands south of Brum to Norfolk and Lincolnshire, taking in some clubs currently in the Northern Premier League.
My humble opinion of the arrangements is not for this column.
*EDIT
Two examples below, not quite as I described but not that far off (based on this season's final tables before the play-offs).
| SW | Central | | Barton Rovers | Barton Rovers | | Basingstoke | Barwell | | Chesham | Biggleswade | | Cirencester | Cambridge City | | Dorchester | Coalville | | Dunstable | Corby | | Farnborough | Dunstable | | Frome | Halesowen | | Gosport Borough | Hitchin | | Harrow Borough | Kettering | | Hayes & Yeading | King's Lynn | | Hereford | Redditch | | Hitchin | Royston | | Kings Langley | Rushall Olympic | | Merthyr | Spalding | | Metropolitan Police | St. Ives | | Salisbury | St. Neots | | Slough | Stourbridge | | Staines | Stratford | | Tiverton | Sutton Coldfield | | Weymouth | Worcester | | Map | Map |
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