Yup - that’s right. Madness.
Most likely would be Taunton away, they have a bit of a knobhead culture at home amongst sections of their support, sadly - I would expect Salisbury to be 2nd faves. Met have had a great season but I wonder whether this might be a step too far for their relatively small squad (mind you, they’ve confounded expectations all season) and there’s the bonus of them being based in Thames Ditton, so would be a relatively local derby. I can’t see Poole making it at all, even we beat them twice!
As silly as this malarkey is, play-offs are taking place in the Southern League Division 1 Central even though the winners will not gain promotion. Because the sides in that division have the lowest points per game average of the 7 feeder divisions into step 3, only the winners of the play-offs in the other 6 divisions will gain promotion.
Farcical doesn’t even begin to explain it.