Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:48 am  

{Hogan} wrote:

Its true about Thatto Heath, we have been advised that our free weekend has now been made a fixture against them this weekend.

they now appear on the league tables on the NWC web-site as in your division. bet wild boar in div 5 are a bit cheesed off!

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:20 pm  

mmp wrote:

they now appear on the league tables on the NWC web-site as in your division. bet wild boar in div 5 are a bit cheesed off!

I bet a few teams are cheesed off!

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:47 pm  

Its certainly a strange one but, if they were to be allowed in a league there may well have been too much disruption by shifting a team up from div 5 especially as that team had already played two games, presumably those games would have to be replayed(?) Dropping them in div 4 might be the course of least resistance but as other posters have said I can see lots of teams being brassed off about it, especially the likes of Hindley and Woolston. Should be interesting to see how things pan out results wise.

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:27 pm  

BooBoo8 wrote:

well!!!!

I was not there on sat due to one of our explayers wedding (who gets married during the season!!??!??!? ) and shall I start going on that it was basicly our 2nd team with only 4 1sts in??? na well played Hindley got told you were very good and sorry we didnt give you the game u were expecting!!!! I see you have met our new fijian shame we dont have 13 of em!!! You are still the team to beat for the third season running!!! just hope we can sort out the probs we have at Cobras soon and give you a game next time round!!!!

Am I right in thinking it's the big Rochdale derby this weekend?? Mayfield vs Cobras??

Bet your first teamers turn up for that one...

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:40 pm  

Yet again Division 4 has become a dumping ground, nothing against thatto Heath at all but they had over 4 months to sort themselves out like the rest of us, the seasons kicked off, no teams should enter any division once the first games have been played full stop. There taking the p*** the Girvins yet again, the clubs didn't even get asked if they minded, or course they are a club from one of the heartlands so they get whatever they want as usual. Really wish someone else would have the balls to run the league and bring it up to date with a fair playing field. Rant over,lol

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:54 pm  

the system on which they work the leagues are crap .you can stick a team in any time you like.finsh bottom.give your last 5 games away but still get to play in div 4

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:34 pm  

perhaps theyve put them there cos blackpool already gone and waterhead not fulfilling fixtures. what do you want, a free weekend every other week? will be interesting how well they do in this highly competitive league. looks like hindley will run away with it!

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:31 am  

veivers wrote:

perhaps theyve put them there cos blackpool already gone and waterhead not fulfilling fixtures. what do you want, a free weekend every other week? will be interesting how well they do in this highly competitive league. looks like hindley will run away with it!

In reality before this week all clubs would have had two free weeks during the course of the season (obviously there will be more due to weather and teams unable to run a side), the Girvins have cocked up yet again throughout the league, a) only deciding on the league structure two weeks before the season started and b)letting clubs decide what division they play in.

e.g if a club doesn't think their team will be competitive in a higher division should they really let them drop down to a division they will feel more competitive in?, its a competition all teams should rise and fall through the divisions on merit.
I personally feel sorry for any division 5 or 6 teams who have worked there socks off only to see someone leapfrog over them, whats up with playing friendlys each week organised by the League, like i say they had enough time to get there house in order.

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:57 pm  

BrigRugbyLeague wrote:

In reality before this week all clubs would have had two free weeks during the course of the season (obviously there will be more due to weather and teams unable to run a side), the Girvins have cocked up yet again throughout the league, a) only deciding on the league structure two weeks before the season started and b)letting clubs decide what division they play in.

e.g if a club doesn't think their team will be competitive in a higher division should they really let them drop down to a division they will feel more competitive in?, its a competition all teams should rise and fall through the divisions on merit.
I personally feel sorry for any division 5 or 6 teams who have worked there socks off only to see someone leapfrog over them, whats up with playing friendlys each week organised by the League, like i say they had enough time to get there house in order.

how many teams are free each week to play freindlys, even if the league did try to organise them? until sides start dropping out there appears to be no friendly teams available. oh there is 1 spare team each week, its the 1 in div 4 so basically puttin them in div 4 is the same as playing the spare team in a friendly but for 2 points instead.

Re: North West Counties Division 4 : Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:35 am  

There are actually quite a few spare teams looking for friendly games, secretaries get emailed details. That I know of are: Hindley A, an occasional Langworthy A, Ellesmere Port (who are associate members of NWC for this reason specifically), Spring View A etc.