: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:17 pm  

Stags Fan wrote:

Maybe with a little bit of thinking, the teams that could get a team out could have played each other at short notice to reduce to call offs to only two games in the first two weeks.

Not a complete solution but could have kept creditbility to the comp.

that calls for common sense, have you met our leaders ?

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:44 pm  

Marto wrote:

that calls for common sense, have you met our leaders ?

Not face to face as they have their heads in the sand most of the times.

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:56 pm  

Marto wrote:

shortening the season turns the comp into a may to august season, ooo hang on, don't they do that in the RLC premier.

that's fine for those that want it, what about the ones that don't?

There's probably only about 7 teams in that category though. To be fair if they're happy to play a smaller league with extra fixtures and have the others in the Premier then that could work, otherwise trying to run a full length season with about a third of the clubs uncapable of doing that is unviable

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:50 am  

bowes wrote:

There's probably only about 7 teams in that category though. To be fair if they're happy to play a smaller league with extra fixtures and have the others in the Premier then that could work, otherwise trying to run a full length season with about a third of the clubs incapable of doing that is non-viable

so why not pipe up whne the fixtures came out? why not re-arrange fixtures on to days when they could fulfil them? they've had plenty of time to sort it out.

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:45 pm  

Marto wrote:

so why not pipe up whne the fixtures came out? why not re-arrange fixtures on to days when they could fulfil them? they've had plenty of time to sort it out.

I suppose they expected to be able to do a Featherstone Lions and put together scratch teams til the BARLA season ends, but that's easier said than done. In reality they need to limit the number of BARLA players or something if games involving certain teams are going to all go ahead during the BARLA season, as BARLA based teams clearly are going to struggle to raise a team when the BARLA season is still going. Agree clubs should have raised it as a potential issue earlier though, as they may have been able to do something then (whether that means midweek fixtures regularly for BARLA based clubs or a separate pre-season comp and shorter league season is another question). Whether these clubs will survive if BARLA ever switches to summer is very doubtful unless they change

teams short of players : Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:20 pm  

the teams in the so called hot bed of rugby league will be getting more and more players turning out for them for now on with the winter leagues fixtures finishing

Re: teams short of players : Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:48 pm  

minato wrote:

the teams in the so called hot bed of rugby league will be getting more and more players turning out for them for now on with the winter leagues fixtures finishing

Yes they will but it doesn't help the last couple of weeks.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:51 am  

While I would not like to see cancellations resulting in walkovers at this early stage is it really fair that Gateshead Storm have to rearrange both the cancelled fixtures to times more suiting to their opponents?
Gateshead Storm potentially would have won both of these fixtures if the opposition were only able to field weakened teams - I say potentially as I understand that this is not a given - leaving them in a great position 2 wins from 2 at the start of the season. They however find themselves not having played a game and maybe having to take a weakened team to huddersfield midweek and then possibly playing liverpool at the end of august when who knows what position the clubs will find themselves in with regards to injuries?
Cancellations are damaging to the image of the league regardless of when they occur but surely clubs knew well in advance when the season started and had ensured that they would have sufficient available players for the opening rounds?

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:16 pm  

Yeah at the very least the Underbank game should be switched to be played at Gateshead Storm for that reason in my opinion (though I would automatically make them walkovers, rather than letting teams cancel willy nilly without even a slap on the wrist leaving no incentive to actually turn up if you're a bit weak one week

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:02 pm  

bowes wrote:

Yeah at the very least the Underbank game should be switched to be played at Gateshead Storm for that reason in my opinion (though I would automatically make them walkovers, rather than letting teams cancel willy nilly without even a slap on the wrist leaving no incentive to actually turn up if you're a bit weak one week

I ARGEE IN THE NORTH WEST COUNTIES JUNIOR LEAGUE IF YOU CANT PLAY THE AWAY FIXTURE YOU FORFIT YOUR HOME ADVANTAGE WHY CANT THIS HAPPEN IN THE SUMMER CONFERENCE