Right cards on the table everyone, do you think we will get promoted this year. An insider tells me that the plans at the club were to build this season and go for it next season. Personally I think that we will win the play off.
I think we have a realistic chance of winning it if we can keep a fit squad.
I have my doubts as to whether we would survive in the Conference though. Most Conference teams seem to be full-time nowadays. Could Welling afford to go full-time?
From what I'm lead to believe, Lewes can't go up because of their ground not being up to the required standard. Don't know how true this is but it would take one major contender out of the equation.
Weymouth would appear to be the team to beat although their results are not that consistant.
Personaly I would prefer us to stay where we are for this season.
Logic? well we have spent I dont know how long battling relegation over the past few seasons and I think a rise to the conference at this stage would see us in the same boat again. Look at Charlton, got promoted went back down and then spent some time consolidating to get where they are know.
I think supporting a team at the top of their league is preferable to one at the bottom of the one above. This will allow us to build on a sucessful season
Try and pick up the best players in the area who don't want to go full time, who are probably better than the full time ones that you would get for the same money and... if you do come straight back you might have some players you could keep for the following season.
We are in a great position, lets hope we get some bodies back, there is no reason why we cannot win it. Why wait to have a go next season? Dorchester were up there last season, look at them this season. Strike while the iron is hot.
At the recent Meet the Manager meeting GH stated that we would not go full time if promoted to the Conference but that we would increase training by one night a week. Ade confirmed he was in agreement with the brothers on this matter.
I think that we should go all out to reach the National Conference since much as I would like to believe Staffords proposal could be achieved I'm afraid that it is as likely as flying pigs. Local talent will find its own level and finds like Keds are pretty rare. Any local players with talent, dedication, and comittment will also have the ambition to play at the highest level they are able to and the fringes of a National Conference side, with regular reserve appearances, and the chance to make the first team is going to be more attractive than a Conference South side.
Some supporters may feel that we would struggle if we got back into the National Conference but I'm not so sure. Ade has built a side which has a good balance of experienced players and developing youngsters and by the end of this season this could have developed into a formidable side. If this side can move into next season with the addition of one or two players we could be a mid table National Conference side. Rose spectacles perhaps but that's how I see us.
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Weymouth would appear to be the team to beat although their results are not that consistant.
Weymouth 2 Thurrock 0
Newport 0 Weymouth 3
Maidenhead 0 Weymouth 0
Weymouth 2 Eastbourne 1
Weymouth 3 Sutton 1
Basingstoke 0 Weymouth 3
WEYMOUTH 2 WELLING 1
19 out of the last 21 available points in the league.
In amongst those we beat WSM, Bath City and Cambridge Utd in the FA Cup and beat Havant in the trophy. In fact we have lost just once in 15 games and that was to Nottingham Forest. We are unbeaten at home in the league since March and all the games since in the league, bar one, have been won at Fortress Wessex. Shall I go on?
Bruno... if you don't understand the orders don't command the pigs.
I'll grant you that probably the majority of last season's squads at Crawley and Gravesend probably went full time with them but there will have been some who would have been financially a lot worse off if they had given up their other jobs. Those are the sort of people you should be looking to pick up because I'll wager not all of those were bench|reserve players or youngsters..... and those are the people we should be looking to pick up, i.e. the proven within probably about an 80 mile radius. And they would probably be better players than full timers you could pick up with the same money.
If you don't think we'd be capable of that then forget it. You'll only need a national rather than southern beer guide for one season. :)
