Whitstable Town FC

Who's likely to drop to Step 5?

Who's likely to drop to Step 5? - 2006/04/06 12:37 Providing there are no post season reprieves this year the rule for relegation down from Step Four is 'Bottom club relegated from each Division (4) plus the three 2nd bottom clubs with the worst points per game record - total of 7 clubs' At the bottom of Isthmian Division 1 newly promoted Lymington & New Milton need one more point from the last five games to be safe from the drop, the same for Molesey. Burgess Hill Town need four more but have six left to play. The teams requiring parachutes will likely come from the bottom four who all still have five matches remaining, Banstead Athletic 34pts, Ashford Town 30pts, Newport IOW 26pts and Corinthian Casuals 22 pts. Obviously if Ashford end up in the pool they would be prime candidates for the Kent League. Thame United are already relegated from Southern Division One West with only a possible total of 30 points available they can't catch Dunstable Town currently on 33. Relegated to this division last season Dunstable currently have a points-per-game average less than one, as do the next two teams Stourport Swifts and Bracknell Town both on 34 points. Fifth from bottom Taunton Town are eight points ahead of them already on 42 points from 37 games. Although Bishop Auckland find themselves sixteen points adrift of the field in their first season down in the Northern Premier Division One they have plenty of games in hand, potential to climb out of trouble maybe but they only average 0.438 ppg to date, maybe the writing's on the wall. Kidsgrove Athletic need one more point to be safe and Belper Town and Ossett Albion need two more, all three will finish with an average better than one point per match, good enough. Shepshed Dynamo, newly promoted Goole and Warrington Town currently have better than one averages but are definitely not out of the danger zone on 41, 38 and 33 points although Warrington still have ten games left to play! That leaves Spalding United (30pts) with Bishop Auckland (14pts) firmly in the mire at the moment. The worst points per game averages over all the Step 4 leagues are Thame United 0.333, Bishop Auckland 0.438, Corinthian Casuals 0.564, Newport IOW 0.666, Ashford Town 0.769, Spalding United 0.857, Berkhampstead Town 0.865 and Banstead Athletic 0.872. However, excluding the bottom clubs already listed above, in Southern Division One east and West the averages are higher than the other two leagues and one relegatee will come from a second to last spot in one of these two. Currently with the worst record are Dunstable Town 0.917, Stourport Swifts 0.919 and Bracknell Town 0.944, all Western division teams followed by Ilford 0.946 and Aveley and Potters Bar Town on 0.973 ppg all from the Eastern division. Plenty of football still left to play this season, absolutely intriguing.

 

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