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I think a surprise team in div 2 this season will be guyhirn, they hammered us at there ground saturday just gone. I think they finished mid-table last season but i think they will be a top 4 team this year. Thanks for the lesson lads!! Any team that faces them season will find them hard to beat, the are a very organised team.
Bratts
( Farcet )
CoatesFC - Dave
23-08-2006, 12:54
In my opinion i don't think it's much of a surprise!! They were unlucky last year with injuries and a couple of people leaving, we expected them to be a very tough team this year!!
yea probably surprise was the wrong word to use, but i def didn't expect to go there and my boys not play let alone get stuffed 6-2, but full credit to them in the way they played, anyway there always the next game to try and make amends for a bad start to the season.
bratts
Guyhirn will of improved, Mark Newton is back from a season long injury and he always tends to score goals. Interesting thing is that he is on the March Town bench this season so not sure what that means long term...
March St. Marys team is virtually completely different to last season and will be much stronger than last time out. Warboys played St. Marys pre-season and looked fairly reasonable despite a 1-0 defeat.
Manea have also signed a couple of strong players so to say this season will be interesting, is a fair assessment with 5 or 6 early contenders.
So teilo who do you think will be there or there abouts this season....i'd like to think we be in the top 5 despite an early set back, my predictions.
1st - Farcet ( got to say that really )
2nd - Coates
3rd - Manea
4th - Stilton
5th - Guyhirn
A bit optimistic about my lads, but it don't look good if there boss says they won't win the league.
Bratts
I think the top 2 will consist of 2 from the following 4. Stilton, Coates (assuming both haven't lost players), Manea and March St. Mary. My reasoning for March St Mary is that they have brought in essentially a new team, with players mostly from a higher standard. Most of last seasons team will probably drop to the reserves, and that includes me I'd imagine. A lot will depend on how the strike partnership of Micky Garner and Jody Day gets on.
The second group will consist of Doddington, Farcet, Guyhirn with maybe Warboys. Peterborough Rovers look interesting after their 8-3 win over Chatteris and could be a dark horse. Of these I expect Doddington to do the best.
Benwick, Hereward Athletic, Chatteris Fen Tigers, Eye S+S I think will be at the wrong end. Fen Tigers may well get points on thier narrow home pitch, but they need to tighten up at the back. Thier last match report mentioned the possibility of them setting up a Cricket Scoreboard to keep track of everything! I know nothing of Sawty apart from they were pretty good a few years ago...
Yea all in all it will be a light tighter at the top this season i think, should make for a good season in div 2. All the best mate.
bratts
It is all gonna be tight this season. Stilton were good but I was dissapointed to only get a point, you have to take your chances against your Stiltons. For me its going to be Guyhirn the team to beat, points are going to be taken all over the place this season though with improvements at Warboys even at the end of last season, Manea, Doddington, Farcet we will see Sat and Stilton if they get Baines. Wish we had gone up last season it looks real tough to pick two out of this league.
Coates
Guyhirn
Stilton
Farcet
Manea
Or the other way up !!!!!
Looks like Doddington are flying. They started like this last season though.
Will Hereward and Benwick last the season ? No disrespect but players don't like getting hammered every week. They've both shipped 18 goals in a single game this season.
I can't see benwick and hereward lasting the season, if they do fair play to them! Thing is since they re-structured the league's, how do they expect teams like benwick and hereward to survive? They are new team's coming into a good division and are up against teams that have been together 3 / 4 seasons or more.
You mention doddington have had a good start, but the same has to be said for Peterborough rovers & sawtry, without being dis-respectful not many teams would have expected them to start like they have.
bratts ( FUFC )
I went to watch Sawtry vs. Chatteris Fen Tigers on Saturday and was quite impressed with Sawtry. When you look at their side they have Darron Morrow (signed from Ortonians), John-Paul Scholfeild (signed from Ortonians), Andrew Neal (played for Balckstones ans PNS last couple of years) and I now understand they have signed Matt Rayson (signed from Ondle Town, played for Ortonians for last 2 seasons). If they can keep that side togther my money is on them for the league!
March St. Mary have struggled to get their best players out - a reseve match was canceled last week so that they could put in a team for their 1sts. However, once the players come back and the team settles down, they will improve. Looks like a lot of teams can take points off each other.
Benwick and Hereward I feel for. A lot of people argued against the restructure of the leagues, and these are 2 reasons why. If these teams somehow manage to complete the season, then I would encourage them to join the Cambs League. The league as it is, is only geared for established teams who want to also put in reserve teams. Yes it may move P'boro up the pyramid, but who really benefits? Hereward in the bottom Division would do ok, but because of the system they may not even complete the season. It is a shame as both clubs have given players new to the game, or ex-players returning a platform in which to enjoy the sport. It is being undone by mis-matches.
Teilo
I can't agree with you mate on this. Surely the restucture of the league has done more good then harm. For a start the Combination league seems to be going very well atleast judging by the messages posted on this site. I do appreciate that some sides have joined the league and have become whipping boys i.e Benwick. But surely whatever league they would have joined they would have struggled. Warboys did for the first part of last season and look at them now.
I agree that no side should lose 28-0 but that can not be blamed on mis matched games. On the other hand Griffin Park are already demonstrating the benefit of the restucture. Two good seasons and they are banging on the door of the Premier Division. They may not be everybody's cup of tea, but atleast if they do reach the local "promised land" the players will be young enough to develop further unlike clubs like Long Sutton and Wimblington who had to win up to five promotions to get to the top and the players that got them there were past their sale by dates (No disrespect intended).
With the utmost respect clearly a scoreline of 28-0 (goal every 3.2mins!) its the club that needs restructuring and quick to conceed 80 odd goals in 6 games is poor at any level. It was only a matter of time they were going to get thumped like that the alarm bells were ringing long ago at 18-0!
Hope for their clubs sake they turn things around on the pitch... Good luck
Langtoft_United
02-10-2006, 18:28
bloody hell 28-0 lol
I respect your opinion Mark, and I know you were involved in organising the restructure. There are pro's and cons to everything, and this is no different. In many ways you are right as the established teams clearly benefit.
If memory serves me right, there were reasons as to why Long Sutton came into the league at the bottom division - but was it due to dropping in from a higher standard of football? Griffin Park had always been actively playing football, and most of their players were always pretty good. Their barrier previously was poor discipline from the players who played for Park Rangers in the Isle league, and Park Rangers were turned down by the P'boro League (rightly so).
Benwick are a team of reasonably successful under 18's trying to move up as a whole team of friends to play in adult football, with only a few adults. Benwick are making a lot of effort in youth football circles, so the potential in theory is there. Some of these lads have already left and are looking to play for other teams in the March/Chatteris area. I fear the situation will only get worse for them over the course of the season. Hereward Athletic recognised that there were relatively few teams based in March (March Town A side, March Braza and Hereward 1st and Res, St. Mary RES all folded over the last 5 or so years) so were formed to try and meet a demand.
The point is, there are always going to be new teams that will try and form. Some are going to be very weak. Division Two is a good standard of football, too good for teams like this. I don't expect anything to happen because 2 teams struggles clearly do not justify change - but personally I can't see why some newly formed clubs could not start in combination three if they so choose, with promotion being achieved either through application or promotion to Division 2.
I will reserve some judgement until we play Benwick.
I think that Hereward have probably been a little hasty in trying to form another club out of March and are finding it tough to compete with the better teams in the division.
As I have said many times before the 'new' league structure will take some time to settle down with only 2 up and 2 down in place. You can see straight away that Griffin Pk and Thorney were good enough to compete at a higher level and unfortunately Hereward and Benwick are suffering due to atleast 3 maybe 4 teams still in Div2 that would compete at the top end of Div1.
Until those better teams go up and the poorer teams come down things will look a bit farcical. The danger for me is that players will not hang around long enough to get through the bottleneck, although that levels the playing field as well.
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