| leiston f.c 14:59 - Feb 9 with 1970 views | jaykay |
the second highest football club in the english pyramid in suffolk. 3points behind the leaders of their league with 2 games in hand. will be step 2 in they win their league.
you would have thought lowestoft bury felixstowe or subury with being larger towns would be higher than leiston.
mind you reading the e.a.d.t you wouldn't know it , if it was needham market or a team mark mosley was involved in they would be all over it.
leiston went to bedford and leicestershire in 3 days and came back with 6 points not bad for part timers and not a peek from the e.a.d.t |  |
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| leiston f.c on 15:09 - Feb 9 with 1895 views | BlueBadger |
Ah, Mark Morsley. The only local football manager to employ his own ego as assistant manager. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 15:25 - Feb 9 with 1842 views | hype313 |
| leiston f.c on 15:09 - Feb 9 by BlueBadger |
Ah, Mark Morsley. The only local football manager to employ his own ego as assistant manager. |
He looks up to Mike Bassett. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 15:52 - Feb 9 with 1743 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Thé radioactive fallout in the Leiston triangle gives them a big home advantage though |  |
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| leiston f.c on 16:00 - Feb 9 with 1710 views | hoppy |
They're3 points behind, but now got 3 games in hand on Tamworth as they lost on Tuesday evening. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 16:00 - Feb 9 with 1714 views | itfcjoe |
Doing great and surprised it is not picked up more by paper - Suffolk non league having a very good season and would really help Ipswich if a couple of clubs could get up into Step 1 or 2 |  |
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| leiston f.c on 16:41 - Feb 9 with 1589 views | jaykay |
| leiston f.c on 16:00 - Feb 9 by itfcjoe |
Doing great and surprised it is not picked up more by paper - Suffolk non league having a very good season and would really help Ipswich if a couple of clubs could get up into Step 1 or 2 |
as i said if had been needham or a morsley team they would been over this like a rash.
the eadt did a piece at the start of the season on the non league teams and they reckoned needham would be the top side in suffolk non leagues. they fighting relegation now. | |
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| leiston f.c on 16:43 - Feb 9 with 1586 views | gainsboroughblue |
| leiston f.c on 16:00 - Feb 9 by itfcjoe |
Doing great and surprised it is not picked up more by paper - Suffolk non league having a very good season and would really help Ipswich if a couple of clubs could get up into Step 1 or 2 |
Not terribly up with the pyramids. Would steps 1 and 2 be the level of vanarama north/south etc? |  |
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| leiston f.c on 16:43 - Feb 9 with 1587 views | clive_baker |
Yeah doing very well. Think they'll find it a big step if they do go up, but will have earned the chance. Darren Eadie doing a good job there as joint manager, shouldn't like him but he's a good guy to be fair.
Weird to think Leiston could be on Football Manager next season. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 16:46 - Feb 9 with 1579 views | clive_baker |
| leiston f.c on 16:43 - Feb 9 by gainsboroughblue |
Not terribly up with the pyramids. Would steps 1 and 2 be the level of vanarama north/south etc? |
Yeah if they're promoted this season they'll go into National League North / South. Or Conference North / South in old money.
Maybe if Colchester suffer a bad run of form over the next few weeks they'll only find themselves 1 division above Leiston next season... | |
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| leiston f.c on 17:07 - Feb 9 with 1504 views | Sharkey |
Don't Sudbury and Leiston play at the same level, though in different leagues?
My bad - I see now Leiston are the same level as the Isthmian league, and Sudbury are in the Isthmian North.
Bury are surely Suffolk's great under-achievers, no? [Post edited 9 Feb 2023 17:13]
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| leiston f.c on 17:17 - Feb 9 with 1464 views | JammyDodgerrr |
| leiston f.c on 16:43 - Feb 9 by clive_baker |
Yeah doing very well. Think they'll find it a big step if they do go up, but will have earned the chance. Darren Eadie doing a good job there as joint manager, shouldn't like him but he's a good guy to be fair.
Weird to think Leiston could be on Football Manager next season. |
Yeah, know him a bit personally from where i work and he is a nice guy, always happy to give time up to chat. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 22:43 - Feb 9 with 1140 views | ParisBlue |
| leiston f.c on 16:46 - Feb 9 by clive_baker |
Yeah if they're promoted this season they'll go into National League North / South. Or Conference North / South in old money.
Maybe if Colchester suffer a bad run of form over the next few weeks they'll only find themselves 1 division above Leiston next season... |
Location is a problem for the Suffolk clubs. Lowestoft were placed in the Conderence North resulting in some very long trips. Costs go up, and with the extra travel can be harder to attract players.
If they did go up every chance they could be playing Scunthorpe next year, maybe Oldham too. Then there's Darlington, Hereford, Chester. Some biggish clubs there for non-league. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 23:14 - Feb 9 with 1091 views | gainsboroughblue |
| leiston f.c on 22:43 - Feb 9 by ParisBlue |
Location is a problem for the Suffolk clubs. Lowestoft were placed in the Conderence North resulting in some very long trips. Costs go up, and with the extra travel can be harder to attract players.
If they did go up every chance they could be playing Scunthorpe next year, maybe Oldham too. Then there's Darlington, Hereford, Chester. Some biggish clubs there for non-league. |
It's a weird one that. If you were to draw a line across the map of England, Lowestoft is more or less level with Birmingham. I'm guessing this is what their criteria is for distribution, especially if the clubs that drop out of the Conference are all based in the South. | |
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| leiston f.c on 23:32 - Feb 9 with 1057 views | giant_stow |
I went to a game there. Nice ground and decent support - good luck to them. |  |
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| leiston f.c on 00:14 - Feb 10 with 1000 views | LeistonBlue |
Doing absolutely fantastically. What a season so far, Tamworth have been dropping points recently as well which has helped. Fingers crossed for the rest of the season! |  | | |
| leiston f.c on 00:32 - Feb 10 with 986 views | LeistonBlue |
| leiston f.c on 22:43 - Feb 9 by ParisBlue |
Location is a problem for the Suffolk clubs. Lowestoft were placed in the Conderence North resulting in some very long trips. Costs go up, and with the extra travel can be harder to attract players.
If they did go up every chance they could be playing Scunthorpe next year, maybe Oldham too. Then there's Darlington, Hereford, Chester. Some biggish clubs there for non-league. |
You’re absolutely right. If Leiston were to go up it’s almost definite that they’d be put in the conference north (for context, Gloucester are in the conference north this season). Would no doubt be a huge financial challenge if the blues were to go up this season, especially given that they struggle to get more than 250 people in for home league games. The people I’ve spoken to at the club, however, are willing to embrace that challenge and give staying in the league above a very good go despite the limited resources, if that situation were to arise. | | | |
| leiston f.c on 00:35 - Feb 10 with 980 views | ParisBlue |
| leiston f.c on 23:14 - Feb 9 by gainsboroughblue |
It's a weird one that. If you were to draw a line across the map of England, Lowestoft is more or less level with Birmingham. I'm guessing this is what their criteria is for distribution, especially if the clubs that drop out of the Conference are all based in the South. |
Brackley are in the Conference North and are as North as Ipswich. So we'd be categorised as Northern. | |
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| leiston f.c on 00:41 - Feb 10 with 974 views | LeistonBlue |
| leiston f.c on 00:35 - Feb 10 by ParisBlue |
Brackley are in the Conference North and are as North as Ipswich. So we'd be categorised as Northern. |
So interestingly, as far as the FA is concerned, Suffolk is categorised as a ‘border county’. This means that the allocation of a club in Suffolk isn’t set in stone, rather dependent of the number of northern and/or southern teams in the league in that season. It just so happens that recently, step two of non league has been very southern heavy, meaning that Leiston would almost definitely be put into the national league north should the question arise. | | | |
| leiston f.c on 01:53 - Feb 10 with 930 views | StNeotsBlue |
| leiston f.c on 00:35 - Feb 10 by ParisBlue |
Brackley are in the Conference North and are as North as Ipswich. So we'd be categorised as Northern. |
The boundaries vary season to season, a few years ago St. Neots had a play off game against Truro to get in the then Conference South. These days they're playing mostly Midlands based teams at a level below, the costs are a big factor. |  | | |
| leiston f.c on 02:46 - Feb 10 with 912 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| leiston f.c on 16:41 - Feb 9 by jaykay |
as i said if had been needham or a morsley team they would been over this like a rash.
the eadt did a piece at the start of the season on the non league teams and they reckoned needham would be the top side in suffolk non leagues. they fighting relegation now. |
Enjoy it! I used to love going to the non-League team in the town I used to live in when Ipswich weren't at home. A totally different experience, and it felt that every shout and cheer I gave contributed.
It sucks how local media is so biased (see also LookNorwich...) but just enjoy the season for what it is, and I hope that you stick it to them at the end of the season! | | | |
| leiston f.c on 08:47 - Feb 10 with 612 views | itfcjoe |
| leiston f.c on 22:43 - Feb 9 by ParisBlue |
Location is a problem for the Suffolk clubs. Lowestoft were placed in the Conderence North resulting in some very long trips. Costs go up, and with the extra travel can be harder to attract players.
If they did go up every chance they could be playing Scunthorpe next year, maybe Oldham too. Then there's Darlington, Hereford, Chester. Some biggish clubs there for non-league. |
I think they were due to be in South, but then Hereford went bust and they got put in North - and it's so far from everywhere. I think most teams flew down to Lowestoft that season, which is fine for one big game a year.....but Lowestoft can't fly back every week so was just so much travelling.
Guernsey fly every week (obviously) so must have some serious money behind them | |
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