Shrimpsvoices

Love 'em or hate 'em, Play Offs certainly keep seasons going. With only ten or eleven games left, Bradford are nine points off a play off spot, so despite being 16th, they could still get promoted. Macclesfield, in 17th place are only 11 points from the relegation spot, so can't consider themselves safe yet. This close to the end of the season and probably only Darlington and Rochdale can start planning for next season, knowing which league they will be in.

looking at the table and upcoming fixtures id go for
Relegated
Darlington Grimsby
Top three
Rochdale Notts County Rotherham
Play off Places
Bury Northampton Port Vale Bournemouth

Totally agree keith if we can win at hereford and northampton we are right back in the mix big ask i know but very possible

ockers wrote:looking at the table and upcoming fixtures id go for
Relegated
Darlington Grimsby

Quite sad really.
Both established league teams.
Not long since Grimsby were knocking on much greater doors.

Looking at our remaining fixtures i think we could have a bit of a say to who finishes in top 7

Peter wrote:

ockers wrote:looking at the table and upcoming fixtures id go for
Relegated
Darlington Grimsby

Quite sad really.
Both established league teams.
Not long since Grimsby were knocking on much greater doors.

Alternatively...
http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistic ... 968-69.htm

If it wasn't for the 'old boys network' Grimsby would have been relegated decades ago and future Premiership team Wigan Athletic would have started their league career a little earlier. At least Darlington have a non-league history, becoming the third team to being automatically relegated from the Football League in to non-league. Of course they did apply for re-election before the auto promotion/relegation came in.

So only "established" because they couldn't go down for most of their history. Morecambe repeatedly applied for entry to the Football League in the fifties & sixties.