Quote Originally Posted by Badly Ironed Shirt View Post
I'm not sure that Ebbw Vale, Cwmbran and even Inter Cardiff would have been financially better off without the National League. Barry Town - you could argue maybe they would have been - plying their trade in the 7th tier of the English pyramid, I think - maybe they would have got to Conference standard at the time they started dominating the Welsh Premier.
They all went bust within a few seasons of joining the league. All 3 of them citing the costs of running a team in the league as the reasons.

All had run for decades happily without it, so YES, the National league definitely was a major factor in th 3 clubs going bust. They all would have been better off without it.


Barry were a different issue- they just went mad with ideas they could never sustain.

In hindsight a league with a North and South conference with end of season play offs would probably had been a better idea at least for the first few seasons