Mike Odgers Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 From SWPL Division 1West- Penzance must be red hot favourites for promotion to the Premier Division Good facilities ,good management,good attendances and good for West Cornwall. Other contenders St.Austell No floodlights- Porthleven No desire (going on previous seasons)- Truro City Reserves-Maybe restricted with the 2/3 level gap in the Pyramid if their firsts dont go up. Hayle-no floodlights From SWPL Division 1 East None of the top 5 clubs have floodlights ie. Galmpton Gents-Stoke Gabriel-Bovey Tracey-Exeter Civil Service-Appledore Not sure if any club has planning in place for lights but I think I am right that all new applicants to the Premier division must have floodlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansome dan Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Unless they make promotion automatic this new league is a joke,you will have clubs happy to pay players rather than plan for floodlights and players happy to play a lower standard and win most weeks rather than try to improve themselves at a higher level. If no auto promotion go to seperate cornwall and devon leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedgerow Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Totally agree. Devon and South Western League were getting stale. No promotion and relegation. The idea of the new league was to encourage development, progression etc. Budleigh and Porthleven won their respective leagues but did not go up. This was wrong they should have gone up. Clubs who do not go up should forfeit the money they are entitled too. Clubs who do not like it, can go and play in the minor leagues in Devon and Cornwall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Budleigh and Porthleven won their respective leagues but did not go up You're quite right in saying Porthleven had already announced during the season that they wouldn't accept promotion, but in the end they didn't have the choice. Wadebridge Town won the Division One West title and decided to be promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abbot1 Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 I would assume the same goes for Bodmin, paying Western league wages but playing in the SWPL. Good CV but under achieving in reality. Budleigh are now paying penalty ! not a top team they once were in the Devon league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 paying Western league wages Possibly more than quite a few WL clubs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Villains Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Some clubs obviously have no ambition to play up to a better standard of football to see how good they really are, but are quite happy to win the league time and time again and be called champions. Therefore, they should be penalised for it, be it a fine or pts reduction or both, the mimimum form of punishment should be to forfeit the money are entitled too. Surely this money is there to help them move up the next step of the ladder as well as rewarding them for finishing as high up as possible in the league. QUOTE paying Western league wages If wages is the issue, put a limit on how much you can pay players, the better standard of football, the higher wages...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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