STAYING PUT SUITS ROVERS...

Going up would be ‘terrifying’

- Mark Stillman

WELTON ROVERS may have missed out on promotion to the Western League Premier, but vice-chairman Gareth Paisey’s reaction was more of relief than dejection.

The Green Army were second in Western League Division One before the curtailment, but their weighted two-year points per game average was lower than their rivals, meaning a stay in Step 6.

Last week’s announcement saw four Cornwall-based sides promoted into the Western Premier, with six Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire outfits switched laterally to the Hellenic League.

“You get enough sleepless nights when you’re overseeing the running of a club as it is,” Paisey told The NLP. “To have this added expenditure would have been terrifying.

“In the Western League some players don’t get paid. Is it reasonable to expect an unpaid player to make an eight-hour round-trip to Devon and Cornwall from the Bristol area? I read online that Cadbury Heath are the most northern based team in the Western Premier. They could get to Bolton quicker than Mousehole.