Bottom of National League

[K23]

my wife's grandparents lived in Woking, when they were alive i used to pop the wife up to see them and then i'd go over to Kingfield stadium to watch Woking.

How long ago was that, SF? The original Kingfield where the Swans played was a typical one man and his dog crowd type of place when I lived there but it was significantly redeveloped in the mid-90s and is quite a decent ground now for their level.

 

[JustJack]

Scunthorpe relegated

What a fall.

 

[J_B]

I remember the days when Scunthorpe would fall foul of the spellchecker.

 

[TimBowen]

I remember driving up to Scunthorpe's Glanford Park for the (League 2 as it is now) Play-Off Semi Final, 2nd Leg in 1999.

We won the first leg 1-0 at the Vetch and were expecting to get to Wembley again (after 1994 and 1997).

As expected we turned up in numbers filling our allocation and made 'noise.' It was a 'ratty' physical match with the ref giving them everything...and their knob of a manager Brian Laws, coming in for much abuse from us for his thuggish tactics and touchline antics.

They won 3-1 on the night (A.E.T.) and 3-2 on aggregate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTPQ6lsGFw

Driving the 275? miles home that night, with everyone else in the car sleeping, made for an endlessly miserable journey, to the extent I still remember it most clearly.

'Scunny' went on to win the Final 1-0 v Leyton Orient. And they also reached the League 1 Play-Offs, only 5 seasons ago!!!

And now, Scunthorpe will be plying their trade in the National League North from August.

A decline of calamitous proportions methinks.

 

[FelindreJack]

Can someone explain to me how the relegation from the national league works please? I know that you go in to either National league North/South depending on geography, but what happens if for example, the bottom 4 are all northern teams? Who replaces the 2 sides that come up from the NL South?

 

[JackFish]

Can someone explain to me how the relegation from the national league works please? I know that you go in to either National league North/South depending on geography, but what happens if for example, the bottom 4 are all northern teams? Who replaces the 2 sides that come up from the NL South?

They'll shift the teams around. If all four relegated sides are northern, then the most southerly current NLN teams will move down - so maybe Oxford City, Brackley, Gloucester, and Hereford would go south.