Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Interesting. I thought clubs would be falling over themselves to secure his signature but - outside of our own bubble - it seems the rest of the football world isn't so convinced there isn't much of a step up between tier 5 and tier 4.
Yesterday on talkSport they were anticipating that Wrexham would be facing a reality check and that they'd have to spend a lot more to be challenging again next season. Stockport aside, clubs that have gone up from the NL since we've been in it have struggled to make much of an impact, none have yet managed to get promoted to tier 3, so maybe they are right and this will also generally apply to individual players who haven't previously graced this level.

Barrow
2022/23 - 9th/24
2021/22 - 22nd/24
2020/21 - 21st/24

Harrogate
2022/23 - 19th/24
2021/22 - 19th/24
2020/21 - 17th/24

Sutton
2022/23 - 14th/24
2021/22 - 8th/24

Hartlepool
2022/23 - 23rd/24
2021/22 - 17th/24

Stockport
2022/23 - 4th/24

Grimsby
2022/23 - 11th/24
Some of the clubs in that list are not historically football league clubs and are playing at their highest ever level like Harrogate and Sutton. Barrow got back after a 48 year absence. Hartlepool lost Dave Challinor to Stockport so they've not really recovered since or been able to kick on.

Stockport and Grimsby are the most like us. But neither of those two had seasons as good as ours and Wexham's when they got promoted. So I think both us and Wrexham can be competitive in L2 and be challenging for the playoffs. However Cameron, Nemane, Ruben's futures at the club are not publicly known at the moment and who knows what will happen with Langstaff. So we will see what the squad looks like come kick off in August.

Notts County in League Two in 2023 is a completely different club to Notts County in L2 in 2019. All the noise coming out of the club from players is about how it's set up like a League One or Championship club. If that infrastructure is in place then we should be an attractive prospect for players, especially with our fan base and stadium.

Let's look at Luton, Shrewsbury, Lincoln, Bristol Rovers, Cheltenham who in the past ten years have gone up from the National League and into League One.

It's also worth noting that L2 has lost two of the top three goalscorers in Sam Hoskins and Kristian Dennis because Northampton and Carlisle have been promoted. So expect Bradford to be up there with Andy Cook the golden boot winner signing a new three year contract there.