Relegation will kill Wallsend and Thornton completely in my opinion.
Wallsend, Thornton, Southy and Cessnock wouldn?t win ZL1 and gain auto promotion back up to NL1 and quite frankly the way Kotara and Croatia are going neither would Lakes or Westy.

Kotara recruited strong from New Lambton, so they would be highly competitive if they gain promotion into this comp this season.

Will be interesting to see how New Lambton go back in this grade next season, have a couple of good players but too many rejects from other clubs. Will their youth take a massive hit with it? Only the future will see. How many Toronto players stick around if they get promoted? A lot of them dropping back to play locally and at this level. Will they want to jump back up to it? Rumours of more juniors coming back from Olympic and Magic if they do get promoted.

One thing is for certain, promotion and relegation has made things a lot more exciting and interesting. One of the very few things Northern have got correct