Promotion, and indeed relegation, is not guaranteed as a result of final
league position.

What happens is that if a club thinks in January it is going to be in a good
league position at the season's end and it wants to go up it will apply to
the higher league for promotion.

In March or so the higher league sends a delegation to the applying club to
examine its facilities and, possibly, its financial set up. The club maybe
notified there and then if its facilities are up to the required standard or
will be told what it needs to do if they are not.

If the club's facilities are satisfactory and they finish at the top of the
league it is quite likely they will go up. If they are not and they don't go
up the second club maybe offered the chance.

Some clubs choose not to go up and a common reason being that travel
expenses look as if they might be horrendous. (You may not be familiar with
the topography of Wales but, due to inconsiderate mountains, it is difficult
to get from North to South Wales easily. I was told by a Barry official, who
should know about these matters, that the coach hire fee alone for their
visit last season to Bangor was £800! Rhayader when relegated from the
League of Wales a couple of years ago chose to go down two leagues into the
Mid Wales as going into the Cymru Alliance meant too much travelling).

There is an appeals procedure but squabbles, legal and otherwise, as a
result of unliked decisions are not unknown.

This is an observer's opinion, as far as I know not much is set in stone and
details may differ from league to league. All part of life's rich tapestry!

John Delaney


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevio" <redeagle@...>
To: <midwalesfootball@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [midwalesfootball] Promotion applications


> Forgive my ignorance, but why do clubs have to apply to be promoted?
>
> I'm from Scotland and I am a junior footballer, junior being a semi
> professional, non league type level.
>
> On our Yahoo list we are constantly talking about reconstruction involving
> senior, non-league senior and junior levels, even amateur, into a pyramid
> system. At the moment there is no promotion from the junior game into the
> senior game if you win any of the top 3 junior regional super leagues.
>
> You can argue that clubs like Pollok and Arthurlie might not want to go
> senior due to the big fish in small pond to small fish in big pond
> mentality, which I understand and even agree with to an extent.
Superleague
> Premier (junior) or Div. 3 stragglers (senior), which is better?
>
> Is your promotion optional?
>
> Stephen
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john_h_delaney" <john@...>
> To: <midwalesfootball@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 8:12 PM
> Subject: [midwalesfootball] Promotion applications
>
>
> > It's that time of the year, have any clubs actually applied to be
> > promoted?
> >
> > Penrhyncoch - CA?
> >
> > John Delaney
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