Teams and Distances 1 - Barnsley 2 - Stockport County - 37m 3 - Wrexham - 86m 4 - Mansfield Town - 40m 5 - Rotherham United - 12m 6 - Huddersfield Town - 19m 7 - Birmingham City - 101m 8 - Lincoln City - 56m 9 - Blackpool - 91m 10 - Stevenage - 147m 11 - Wycombe Wanderers - 171m 12 - Leyton Orient - 184m 13 - Wigan Athletic - 71m 14 - Exeter City - 260m 15 - Northampton Town - 111m 16 - Bristol Rovers - 186m 17 - Charlton Athletic - 189m 18 - Reading - 199m 19 - Cambridge United - 134m 20 - Shrewsbury Town - 119m 21 - Burton Albion - 67m 22 - Peterborough United - 100m 23 - Bolton Wanderers - 67m 24 - Crawley Town - 220m
Tough division on paper that. Us, Bolton, Rotherham, Huddersfield, Birmingham, Peterborough, Blackpool, Lincoln and Charlton will expect to be up there. You'd imagine Stockport and Wrexham will have a healthy budget to compete too. Reading and Wigan will be expected to improve if they don't suffer further points deductions. It makes getting the managerial appointment right more imperative.
8 teams in L1 who have been in the premier division relatively recently. 11 maybe 12 with potentially 10k plus average attendances. Its going to be a tough season for us unless we get the head coach appointment correct and we have a very good summer transfer window.
Some of the distances look a bit iffy. The ones that immediately stood out were Reading and Charlton - it's got to be further to SE London than Reading, on the M4. So I checked and Google tells me it's 175 miles to Reading and 204 to Charlton.
Where's your starting point? I can get either 199 miles (quickest currently and same as given by OP) or 190 miles (shortest). That's from Oakwell to Reading's ground. Be interested to see how you've cut another 15 miles off the journey.
Interestingly, you are right, doing it on exact postcodes adds another 14 miles, although it looks to be the same basic route. Which is proper odd.
Bensons or Lamberts? There's another thread.....football players named after fags or vice versa....... Edit.....so why does the censor catch *** but not its plural? Strange
I get what point the OP is making we've got some travelling to do next season. He could have put them in order (hence my cig packet comment).