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They find out on 29 march whether they will be entered in tier 2 or 3.
Personally for the bigger picture i hope its tier 2. Thats a tough league in itself and colwyn bay will struggle in their current form.
Re merthyr- there are strong arguments both ways but i think its more than likely they will end up in wales. They will certainly be having a close look at how colwyn bay get on.
Merthyr are a tidy club and could seek to get champions league football every season.
Tier 2 in Wales is being restructured this summer, so I can see them being snuck in as part of that.
how is it being restructured ?
noticed quite a few barry players in the Wales C side that was announced to face England this week father . pity the game is away would have popped along
I’d argue that County are at a different level to Merthyr. Would they be better off waiting 5/10/20 years for an FA cup tie against Man City or winning the Welsh Cup or League and potentially playing some of Europe’s biggest sides. I’d even go as far as sying that they’d hve a better chance of playing Man City in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League than they would playing them in the FA cup.
Regarding crowds, if Merthyr were playing at the top of the Welsh league I think they’d get decent crowds. Probably as big as they’d have in the conference..or similiar. There would also, potentially, be more “grandstand” events with Welsh Cup and League games plus European fixtures. These would surely attract better crowds than Havant and Waterloo or Torquay.
That said, if Merthyr fans would prefer to stay in the English set-up I get it and it is not the place of fans from other sides to prescribe anything for Merthyr T. I’d just argue that the Welsh setup would offer more short term (and probably long-term) benefits, both financial and sporting.
Penybont still have 1/3 of their season to go, but they are in a good positionn
Re crowds- Merthyr average 395 this season.
Thats lower than clubs like Caernarfon and barry. Average attendance of the welsh league is normally 350ish.
With a higher away support (barry would certainly take a couple of hundred to Merthyr) it is likely Merthyrs crowds would go up in welsh system.
And Colwyn bay average 220 this season.
Its good for welsh football they are asking to join but it's quite funny people see them as being a big welsh club simply because they were in the English system rather than welsh.