Step 4 Next Season

[Dan]

I've been looking at the Tony Kempster message board and the consensus appears to be that we could be getting six divisions at Step Four after all. If this happens this would probably mean four relegation places in the Ryman Premier and two promotion places (one through play-offs) for Ryman Division One North and South.

An announcement is due to be made this Friday - or next Thursday depending what you read!!

[Gazza]

From NLD:

The FA`s National League Systems committee will announce the latest round of restructuring late on Thursday, although it may not be revealed publically for another week or so.

The committee met at length on Wednesday when they were hoping that the Football Conference, Southern, Ryman and UniBond leagues` respective officials would agree the restructuring themselves.

However, disagreements (surprise, surprise!) over where certain clubs should be placed in the Pyramid, most notably the division of the Ryman League`s Division One teams, led to a none-too-friendly end to the meeting and left the FA with no other alternative than to make the decisions themselves.

It is all a bit of a shambles – again – but the FA`s hope that the leagues would agree to the changes themselves was always doomed to failure, given past history!

This restructuring is the most comprehensive so far, and must be got right, otherwise all hell will let loose!