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Southend - 07/08 6th - Bookies 20/1 7th= - If you're not wanted at Southend they're very quick to tell you. A string of contracted players have been offloaded during the summer with ten in total leaving Roots Hall. 40 year old Paul Furlong is the only outfield player of note with both keepers being changed over the summer. May make the play-offs if the veteran's legs hold out.
Stockport - 07/08 4th(p) - Bookies 66/1 21st= - Another 'bigger club' that thinks it's deserving of more than it's got. The Bookies think they'll struggle after one speculative punt on Liam Dickinson paid off and was replaced by two more expensive ones on Carl Baker and Peter Thomson, neither of whom have any experience at this level.
Swindon - 07/08 13th - Bookies 40/1 14th= - The fans hardly trumpeted Maurice Malpas' capabilities last season, but seem to accept he'll remain the manager while his biggest - and possibly only - fan is the Chairman who saved them from closure. Bold plans for progress up the leagues is still being hindered by delays in solving the financial puzzles of the past. The budget appears to have shrunk, as has the squad but this will likely be a season of treading water until the money is sorted.
Tranmere - 07/08 11th - Bookies 25/1 10th= - A summer of little movement for the Prenton Park outfit as it continues to rely on a useful youth policy and hand-me-downs from it's bigger neighbours to balance the books. Worringly lost one player to Shrewsbury they'd rather have kept, but the fans seem to have faith in Ronnie Moore and one or two youngsters breaking through may tip them into the play-offs.
Walsall - 07/08 12th - Bookies 50/1 17th= - Jimmy Mullen's appointment was seen as the cheap option, and their fans don't have much hope of progress this season. The loss of senior striker Tommy Mooney this summer comes on the back of the January sales of two players that effectively ended their play-off hopes last season, and their replacements have hardly set the world alight.
Yeovil - 07/08 18th - Bookies 50/1 17= - Seventeen loan players last season made the Bulls look like amateurs in the loan department, and the loss this summer of strikers Marcus Stewart and Andy Kirk without replacement doesn't bode well for the coming season. Local hero midfielder Darren Way's return to Huish Park does little to hide the fact that, apart from Lloyd Owusu, their other current strikers have one goal in 18 league appearances and they're plunging the depths of non-league for talent.
