Post by magpiesgraham on Jul 15, 2022 14:39:29 GMT
Garry P kindly passes on his paper copy of the Non-League Paper.
In last weekend's issue (10/7) there was a 2-page article / interview with Claridge, manager of Salisbury. Last season they finished 15th in the Southern League Premier South, 30 points short of the last play-off place, and with a goals tally of 49 for, 75 against.
Here's part of the article:
Mainly, though, Salisbury were stymied by the growing financial strength of neighbouring clubs in the division and, according to Claridge, the bottleneck caused by two years of abandoned seasons that concluded without any promotion to Step 2.
"Our assumption was that everyone would be brassic after Covid," says Claridge. "Clearly that's not the case because when you look around our area, it's saturated with wealthy clubs. Totton are taking players from us. We've lost out to Wimborne on a couple of players this summer. Poole can go that extra mile. Dorchester have got a 3G pitch, lots of revenue coming in. Weymouth got relegated from the National League and are back to fishing in the same pond as us. Gosport - they'll be the biggest payers in our league. And every one of them is within 50 miles of us. Normally, when you have an area like ours, you have one or two that dominate. Here, there's five or six competing for the same players."
In last weekend's issue (10/7) there was a 2-page article / interview with Claridge, manager of Salisbury. Last season they finished 15th in the Southern League Premier South, 30 points short of the last play-off place, and with a goals tally of 49 for, 75 against.
Here's part of the article:
Mainly, though, Salisbury were stymied by the growing financial strength of neighbouring clubs in the division and, according to Claridge, the bottleneck caused by two years of abandoned seasons that concluded without any promotion to Step 2.
"Our assumption was that everyone would be brassic after Covid," says Claridge. "Clearly that's not the case because when you look around our area, it's saturated with wealthy clubs. Totton are taking players from us. We've lost out to Wimborne on a couple of players this summer. Poole can go that extra mile. Dorchester have got a 3G pitch, lots of revenue coming in. Weymouth got relegated from the National League and are back to fishing in the same pond as us. Gosport - they'll be the biggest payers in our league. And every one of them is within 50 miles of us. Normally, when you have an area like ours, you have one or two that dominate. Here, there's five or six competing for the same players."
