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Non-League Oxford City

Peterdev

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Poor Oxford City. Didn’t realise they had been put in National North.
They’ve got hundreds of miles to travel for many games. Surely they should have gone south
 
Northstandboy said:
They should get a bit of extra funding from the National League to cover the much much higher transport costs.
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I dunno, you enter a system where it’s a possibility you have to accept it for me. Should a Cornish team get it for travelling? They were in the National league last season so it’s obviously doable.

Some north east teams have refused promotions in the past because of the extra travelling it involves, why that region have done so well in the FA Vase, going up the levels involves extra travelling with all that entails.
 
holdsteady said:
I dunno, you enter a system where it’s a possibility you have to accept it for me. Should a Cornish team get it for travelling? They were in the National league last season so it’s obviously doable.

Some north east teams have refused promotions in the past because of the extra travelling it involves, why that region have done so well in the FA Vase, going up the levels involves extra travelling with all that entails.
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They had a good 5.1 win against Braintree.
 
It just seems harsh on them. Some of those teams up north seem half a day away
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I seem to remember Oxford City making more money in NLN than they did in NLS as generally the northern fans travel in better numbers than southern teams.
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Seem to be more ex league/Phoenix/traditional big non league clubs in the north as maybe less southern clubs fail and fall that far so the same might happen this season, whether it’s enough to cover the extra travel cost I don’t know.

48 teams split evenly north/south at that level, so if there are 24 teams further south than you, while it might seem a geographical oddity, then you are in the north, it’s got nothing to do with whether your club is actually in the north.
 
Jster said:
Yeah, nowhere seems to have Braintree team news for that match, so not sure if Knightbridge was in goal. He played the previous day against Stevenage though (2-1 defeat), so it may well have been a completely different side against Oxford City.
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was a trialist keeper apparently (in a team of mainly trialists)
 
They had to do something about it as City was morphing towards another relegation.

The club seems in my experience to be a semi (that's all) determined club that tried to tick too many boxes but unfortunately, these ticked boxes do not win you many games and now the players that seemed (by the shite results) to play like a tick now need to 'tick themselves up' and get this middling club up the table and hope that another more 'northern club' f*cks themselves up more in the league above this current season to give city a Southern based league programme next season.

Once again, a club that is probably too nice and needs a steel(er) back bone.

COYY'S for tomorrow.
 
christenedinjericho said:
They had to do something about it as City was morphing towards another relegation.

The club seems in my experience to be a semi (that's all) determined club that tried to tick too many boxes but unfortunately, these ticked boxes do not win you many games and now the players that seemed (by the shite results) to play like a tick now need to 'tick themselves up' and get this middling club up the table and hope that another more 'northern club' f*cks themselves up more in the league above this current season to give city a Southern based league programme next season.

Once again, a club that is probably too nice and needs a steel(er) back bone.

COYY'S for tomorrow.
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Eh?
 
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christenedinjericho said:
They had to do something about it as City was morphing towards another relegation.

The club seems in my experience to be a semi (that's all) determined club that tried to tick too many boxes but unfortunately, these ticked boxes do not win you many games and now the players that seemed (by the shite results) to play like a tick now need to 'tick themselves up' and get this middling club up the table and hope that another more 'northern club' f*cks themselves up more in the league above this current season to give city a Southern based league programme next season.

Once again, a club that is probably too nice and needs a steel(er) back bone.

COYY'S for tomorrow.
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Not too nice to get into the Conference though, despite being the smallest club there? They seem to have used too many loan players lately, they maybe need to reestablish a solid core.
 
They over achieved by getting in the conference, understandably struggled and are one of the smaller clubs at the current level.
Without a rich backer or a big fan base I never really get what people on here think is going to power them up the leagues?
 
holdsteady said:
They over achieved by getting in the conference, understandably struggled and are one of the smaller clubs at the current level.
Without a rich backer or a big fan base I never really get what people on here think is going to power them up the leagues?
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The have had plenty of beneficiaries along the way - else they would have pushing up daises f*cking years ago.
 
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