The meeting will also be given the latest reaction from the Board of Directors on the Football Conference's move to extend invitations to Premier Division clubs to form a larger national competition.

Included on the agenda is the issue of 'realignment of boundaries' ready for the 2004/05 season.

The Ryman and Dr Martens leagues agreed to form a working party to look at the issue following the collapse last year of plans to reduce the number of feeder leagues to the Conference from three to two by downgrading the Ryman League to the status of a Dr Martens feeder.

The management boards agreed to try and thrash out a boundary change in order to remove some of the geographic anomalies between the clubs playing in them.

The most glaring is Chelmsford City, who play in the Dr Martens League when most of the clubs around them, including Braintree Town, Canvey Island, Purfleet and Bishop's Stortford, not to mention a whole host of London Borough sides, play in the Ryman League.

It is expected that at the very least the joint league panel will recommend that Chelmsford switch to the Ryman League, with clubs to the extreme north and west of the Ryman League catchment area, likely to include Bedford Town and possibly Aylesbury United, moving the other way.

The Ryman, in exchange, could arguably obtain the likes of Welling United, Crawley Town and Havant & Waterlooville.