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scouse3465:
Just clocked that basically Walsall and birmingham have merged. Thought it a bit strange to merge the winners who consistantly get the most runners with a team that finished 6th. Was looking forward to playin this and feels like we handicaped already. So the winning team gets boosted by all the players from another division 1 team. Thought point of merging teams was to make it more competive not just help out Walsall ??
Or was this just done because a lot of the walsall team was from birmingham anyway last year?

AMRN:
Not sure about Walsall players numbers Steve - although they won it last year, they had less regular players that play every week than some other teams.... they just ran deep consistently.

Birmingham on the other hand just couldn"t get enough players to make any sort of challenge - we only had 4 or 5 regulars. With the way the league competition has shaped up over the past couple of years, it"s simply not possible to get any chance of success with a team of only 4 or 5 players.

Birmingham and Walsall are a stone"s throw from each other, so any new players eligible to join Bham would also be eligible to join Walsall... but the more attractive proposition to these people was clearly Walsall due to the realistic chance of success compared to Bham"s minimal chances.... this meant it was nigh on impossible to recruit new players and improve the situation for Bham.

scouse3465:
I didnt play much last year as sunday bad night for me so not sure on number s but told walsall had a lot of players with a few from birmingham but thats gone now and can understand putting brum and walsall together but looks like they going to have such an advantage purely from numbers game. Merging teams was to make it more competive i believed this will not make it so.

cincicrappykid:
A BIT LIKE THE PReMIERSHIP THEN !!!!!

PantsMan:
Yet again the old myth about Walsall winning due to numbers comes up. Take a look at the top points scorers and Walsall had 7 out of the top 20 (Birmingham had 1 - Ant). Our top players were constantly scoring top points and that"s why we won the league. There are teams with more players than us but there points were spread out amongst many players.

The last game of the season there were 55 players. Only 8 of those were from Walsall and we went on to beat teams with more players. We may have lot of players signed up but it"s the core team that plays every week and scores the points.

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