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Looking at the teams in our league next season 
NPL Premier Division (22 teams): Alfreton Town, Ashton United, Avro, Bamber Bridge, Bury, Cleethorpes Town, Curzon Ashton, Emley, FC United, Gainsborough Trinity, Guiseley, Hyde United, Ilkeston Town, Lancaster City, Leek Town, Quorn, Redcar Athletic, Stockton Town, Warrington Rylands, Warrington Town, Whitby Town, Workington  

At least 3 of the new teams are expected to do well, Bury, Redcar and Curzon Ashton. 
So far we have lost Jamie Walker, Sam Essien, Robbie Fox and Sam Parker with probably more to come.
We don’t know for sure how Avro and Emley, Alfreton or Quorn will perform at Step 3.    

I feel we are unlikely to finish above the below 8 teams which finished above us last season
FC United
Rylands
Stockton
Lancaster
Gainsborough
Leek
Cleethorpes 
Ashton 

I also feel we are unlikely to finish above
Bury
Redcar 
Curzon Ashton 

So that should be the 11 teams finishing in the top half of the table 

The 4 teams we’re not sure about are 
Avro
Emley
Alfreton
Quorn   

Last season we finished above the following six teams who are  still in our league:
Workington ,
Whitby, 
Hyde, 
Warrington Town, 
Guiseley 
Bamber Bridge 

And we need to do that again this coming season to avoid finishing in the bottom four and relegation