Surely that is the whole point I'm making that if you have winter players there will be problems during the overlap. Maybe if that's the case they should shorten the season and look at ideally getting teams into the Northern Rail Cup, but if as is likely that's not possible then they could look at a Northern Rail Trophy type tournament with a group of maybe 4 teams playing home and away before the season with a final later as the curtain raiser to the NRC or something.



Also when the RLCP South gets to a standard to be the RLCN (South), which will happen eventually as it's already closer to RLCN standard than it is to RLCP standard (Bedford would have a good chance of winning the RLCP Midlands this year but got hit for 100 by South London, Nottingham won the RLCP midlands last year and instantly are near the top of RLCN), a competition like this would allow Hemel to retain fixtures against all the big northern sides, while replacing ones against East Lancashire etc with higher or equivalent standard local ones.

Quote ="Marto"what? by having season that allows us to play out grand final with the championship cubs? we had a full season. the rfl took that away from us by fooking about with the challenge cup. and not allowing us to play in the ">nrc.'" Actually sorry I'll give you that the RFL caused the problem by poor planning of the league, just it was clear the season started 3 weeks early for some clubs, so they'll need to shorten the league and find another competition for Bramley etc (obviously NRC would be ideal), although knowing the RFL they'll do the former and not the latter. It does noone any favours though to have 5 effective walkovers in the first 3 weeks, though if they deducted points and awarded the match, and expelled teams for scratching thrice in a season, then teams like Underbank would be less likely to take the , as the current system rewards what they did. Of course the real ideal situation would be to find better run teams to replace the poorly run teams, but that will be difficult as the current league has a poor reputation among both good NCL/BARLA clubs and RLC Premier sides, whihc is a shame as there's a lot of well run clubs as well, so it would have to be an en masse change to a championship 2 or something, but not sure how that could work. Not likely now but with the NCL running summer pilots, it is likely that some strong clubs will want a decent summer league at some point in the future

Quote ="Marto"what? by having season that allows us to play out grand final with the championship cubs? we had a full season. the rfl took that away from us by fooking about with the challenge cup. and not allowing us to play in the ">nrc.'" Actually sorry I'll give you that the RFL caused the problem by poor planning of the league, just it was clear the season started 3 weeks early for some clubs, so they'll need to shorten the league and find another competition for Bramley etc (obviously NRC would be ideal), although knowing the RFL they'll do the former and not the latter. It does noone any favours though to have 5 effective walkovers in the first 3 weeks, though if they deducted points and awarded the match, and expelled teams for scratching thrice in a season, then teams like Underbank would be less likely to take the , as the current system rewards what they did. Of course the real ideal situation would be to find better run teams to replace the poorly run teams, but that will be difficult as the current league has a poor reputation among both good NCL/BARLA clubs and RLC Premier sides, whihc is a shame as there's a lot of well run clubs as well, so it would have to be an en masse change to a championship 2 or something, but not sure how that could work. Not likely now but with the NCL running summer pilots, it is likely that some strong clubs will want a decent summer league at some point in the future

I wouldn't let the RFL run a bath.



However BARLA wouldn't have a clue where the bath was in the first place.

Yeah perhaps I should have said improved confidence. I think the jury is still out on Wood but Lewis I think has been good for our game.

Quote ="The Chair Maker" This imo is all money that would be better spent getting kids playing the sport rather than making lawyers rich. '" And why would BARLA want to do that? icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" /> They can be such idiots.

Quote ="The Chair Maker" This imo is all money that would be better spent getting kids playing the sport rather than making lawyers rich. '" And why would BARLA want to do that? icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" /> They can be such idiots.

Aren't BARLA GB playing Samoa on Monday?