Non-league make up 2024/25

[bluesinsider]

Only a rough guide, but the latest 2024/25 non-league predictions on non-league maps has us placed in the Isthmian League next season. A lot can change though between now and the end of this season.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j9Xsb52BW6OYS98S4SIM4ueejxbA2I9CHePzrzlqSlk/edit#gid=1484938441

If it all goes pear-shaped and southern clubs need to be placed in National North again, the candidates (in order of most northern first) would be:

51.8759N - Braintree Town*
51.7740N - Oxford City (potential relegation from National Division)
51.7543N - St Albans City*
51.7539N - Hemel Hempstead Town (outsiders for relegation from National South given their recent dismal results)
51.7532N - Chelmsford City*
51.7509N - Merthyr Town (potential promotion from Southern League Premier South)
51.6991N - Chesham United (potential promotion from Southern League Premier South)

* National South promotion candidate

If Oxford City are relegated and Merthyr Town promoted I'd imagine both may be "persuaded" to head North, despite the latter's location being further south than four Home Counties National South clubs.

[mrpunch]

Could the Hemel Hempstead dismal run (and outsiders for relegation) be from fear of a move north?

[ladder man]

Mar 8, 2024 16:20:40 GMT bluesinsider said:

Only a rough guide, but the latest 2024/25 non-league predictions on non-league maps has us placed in the Isthmian League next season. A lot can change though between now and the end of this season.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j9Xsb52BW6OYS98S4SIM4ueejxbA2I9CHePzrzlqSlk/edit#gid=1484938441

If it all goes pear-shaped and southern clubs need to be placed in National North again, the candidates (in order of most northern first) would be:

51.8759N - Braintree Town*
51.7740N - Oxford City (potential relegation from National Division)
51.7543N - St Albans City*
51.7539N - Hemel Hempstead Town (outsiders for relegation from National South given their recent dismal results)
51.7532N - Chelmsford City*
51.7509N - Merthyr Town (potential promotion from Southern League Premier South)
51.6991N - Chesham United (potential promotion from Southern League Premier South)

* National South promotion candidate

If Oxford City are relegated and Merthyr Town promoted I'd imagine both may be "persuaded" to head North, despite the latter's location being further south than four Home Counties National South clubs.

It's nice to think we'll be in the Isthmian. But I've watched these maps for years (I have no life) and they don't mean any thing in March. They barely mean.  anything after the end of the league season because the play-offs have so many different outcomes. I really hope it works out but the only use these things have ever had was when I wrote the original "oops, we may be in the north next year" article, the Conference poo-poo'd the idea and then gave us £12k when they stuck us in north. It might have been the best hour's work I've ever done, but the money lasted about an hour as well.