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"RastaBilly"

Cambs fan, eh? Just thought I'd welcome you to the conference:

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You're not starved of highlights even at this level. Although they do seem to be a bit behind this season, they haven't updated it with the new teams, I'm pretty sure they will have the highlights of all conf games because they've also got some live games scheduled.

Crawley'll get out of it. The bottom three will be FGR, Tamworth and Altrincham I reckon.

Yeah, my prediction is for FGR & Crawley to go down at the end of this season - Burton'll be down there but'll survive without too many problems I believe.

I really hope they do stay up - like you say they are not in the worst 2 teams in the division but that's only on paper and they need to start performing pronto.

Plus I really respect Nigel Clough not because I'm a Forest fan but because he's started at the bottom to learn his trade and will then hopefully work his way up the ladder to Forest (well he's not got far to go!) and maybe even further.

I'd really like to say with Forest but that won't happen for a long time if ever and if he gets the team performing like they can Burton may even be in the same division as Forest in a few years (Division 1 or 2 unfortunately for Forest).

Smedlos - Burton will survive. They're not that bad, we only drew 2 - 2 with them through 2 late, late goals, not that we were playing particularly well. Plus only 2 go down and there are certainly 2 worse teams than you in the league.

Rasta - We have Southport in an FA Cup Replay on Tuesday night - this is the source of your confusion. :- )

Ashman wrote:
> To be fair, Hereford are a good side, and probably will be there or
> thereabouts play-off wise at the end of the season. It doesn't change
> the fact that we were absolutely shocking, mind.

Ah, Hereford, sorry, I thought it was Southport for some reason. They'll certainly be in the playoffs come the end in my view. We still beat them though :-D

I'm a Forest fan myself but I like to keep an eye on Burton as they're pretty local to me and they're managed by Nigel Clough. I really thought they'd do well this season and maybe even get a play off place but at the minute they're looking good for Conference North / South football next season.

To be fair, Hereford are a good side, and probably will be there or thereabouts play-off wise at the end of the season. It doesn't change the fact that we were absolutely shocking, mind.

We're also the highest placed team with a negative goal difference now :-D

Yeah, I know Meka. The thing is, we actually haven't done that badly this season. Things were just marred a bit by losing 5 games in a row - had we picked up just one win there we'd be challenging for the playoffs at the moment. When we're on our game (which usually only happens at the Abbey) we could compete easily with anyone in the Conference. When we're not, we deserve to be with the likes of City & Histon. We really are a Jekyll & Hyde team, maybe now we've got our first away victory (and ended Morecambe's impressive unbeaten home run) we can actually achieve some consistency.

And yeah, I saw that Ash. Poor you. Wasn't even a very good team was it?

We lost 4 - 0. I weep.