SSML Div 1 Table

[Football Man]

A quick glance at the Div 1 table tonight shows the great Ampthill Town sitting pretty at the top but Brimsdown Rovers breathing down their necks in second place with games in hand.

 

Does anyone think that Ampthill can sustain this or will Brimsdown prove too powerful over the course of the season? Or do people think that the ideally placed Stony Stratford Town will make a surge from their current fourth place?

[Lato]

Don't forget Cockfosters.

[Football Man]

Yes, sorry Lato. Very remiss of me.

[GRS67]

Looks like the top of div 1 & 2 are as competitive as the Prem. Does anyone know why Crawley Green had points deducted?

[phoinex]

Potters Bar Town I am surprised your more interested

in the top of SSML Div 1 and not in your position in the Ryman Isthmian Div 1 North,are you confident you can claw back the points with your games in hand.Flackwell Heath seem well out of their depth.

 

BE LUCKY <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Football Man]

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Phoinex said:
Potters Bar Town I am surprised your more interested
in the top of SSML Div 1 and not in your position in the Ryman Isthmian Div 1 North,are you confident you can claw back the points with your games in hand.Flackwell Heath seem well out of their depth.

BE LUCKY <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Phoinex - Flackwell Heath are near certs for a bottom two place. My money is on either Ilford or Tilbury for the other one. However, as we saw last season, there is no guarantee that anyone will be relegated anyway.

At the other end, I expect AFC Hornchurch and AFC Sudbury to battle it out for the automatic promotion spot. Everyone else will probably take points off each other in the scramble for the remaining play-off spots or just mid-table respectability in the case of some of the newly promoted clubs. (Any comments, Paula?)

As for Potters Bar, we have added to the squad recently and have also let a few players go this week; partly to finance the players coming in and partly because players don't want to be on the fringes of the team all the time. Perhaps the squad was not as good as it appeared to be at the start of the season (FA Cup matches should not be allowed to cloud the judgement of the overall picture) and maybe these changes will improve League form where we have drawn too many matches that we have been in complete control of.

Maybe with the big cup ties out of the way, we can focus more attention on the League and start moving up the table. We have only lost three League matches and two of those were on the Tuesday night after beating Ryman Premier sides the previous Saturday! A case of after the Lord Mayor's Show.

We are currently near the foot of the table but it only needs a 2-3 week unbeaten spell to put us in play-off contention. That's how close the League is.

[phoinex]

PBT - Good opinion and you did string that run together at the back end of last season to keep you up so don't panic just yet.

 

BE LUCKY <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Rhodes]

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Phoinex said:
Potters Bar Town I am surprised your more interested in the top of SSML Div 1 and not in your position in the Ryman Isthmian Div 1 North

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Yes I agree, it is becoming a bit of an obsession.

[Sharming Paula]

I'm in agreement with PBT.

Very tight league and there only seem to be a few clubs who 'shine' namely Harlow, Bury and me ol mates at Hornchurch. Then again these 3 clubs have a far bigger budget than the rest of us and have brought in players from higher levels. Their wage bills are considerably higher but then if you want quality players then you have to pay quality wages.

Saying that I beleive both Potters Bar and Canvey will still be playing each other next season and we will be fighting for position mid table.

Don't think either of us will be panicing!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Football Man]

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Rhodes said:

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Phoinex said:
Potters Bar Town I am surprised your more interested in the top of SSML Div 1

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Yes I agree, it is becoming a bit of an obsession.

Rhodes, isn't it you that has consistently said over the last couple of weeks "look at the table, it doesn't lie"? Well, now I have and the truth is something to behold. Thanks for the tip!

[GRS67]

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Paula said:
I'm in agreement with PBT.
Very tight league and there only seem to be a few clubs who 'shine' namely Harlow, Bury and me ol mates at Hornchurch. Then again these 3 clubs have a far bigger budget than the rest of us and have brought in players from higher levels. Their wage bills are considerably higher but then if you want quality players then you have to pay quality wages.
Saying that I beleive both Potters Bar and Canvey will still be playing each other next season and we will be fighting for position mid table.
Don't think either of us will be panicing!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

....
Are you dissapointed with the start Canvey have made or was this expected? I imagine you lost most of your players from last season in the Conference. Are you enjoying the football you are watching and the grounds you are vistiing or do you pine for the conference?

[Sharming Paula]

All things considered Canvey have had a great start. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />

All of the team from last year have left us and we are now playing last years ressies as the first team. They are a mostly young side who had little or no experience of first team football.

They are gaining experience from every game we play and are on the pitch because they WANT to wear the Canvey shirt and not because of the payday at the end of the week.

We have our ups and downs (we won away to Waltham Abbey yesterday) but we the fans (between 300 & 350 for the home games and about 100+ for the away games) are always behind the lads cheering them on.

Yes it is a bit disapoointing that we are no longer with the big boys in the Conference and the standard of the grounds we visit are obviously not as good as what we were used to but, we are not snobs, we have made many new friends through visiting other grounds and hopefully we will continue to do so.

The standard of the footie (for me anyway) is sometimes a little disappointing because the ball just gets 'hoofed' around the pitch and there seems to be a lot of play in the air but sometimes that is all the lads can do as it seems to be the style of play in these leagues.

We have improved since the start of the season and will continue to do so and hopefully next season we will have the money in the coffers to improve the squad and employ a goal keeper coach (which we desperately need at the mo).

All in all we are doing OK and I feel we are improving week by week.

I will personally continue to follow them along with the 'Yellow Army@ regardless of their league status