speedy bill 154 Posted September 7, 2010 how can you decide a league when all teams will not have raced the same number of meetings it is stupid Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lucifer sam 3,953 Posted September 8, 2010 The cut-off for the play-offs in the NL does seem a tad too early. Surely given the recent weather, it would be make sense to extend it by a couple of weeks to allow the league table to be properly sorted out. After all, the play-off semis are not normally held until the first half of October in any case. All the best Rob Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted September 8, 2010 The cut-off for the play-offs in the NL does seem a tad too early. Surely given the recent weather, it would be make sense to extend it by a couple of weeks to allow the league table to be properly sorted out. After all, the play-off semis are not normally held until the first half of October in any case. All the best Rob This would indeed be sensible - particuarly when among the fixtures 'lost' because of the deadline are Rye away at Bournemouth and home to Plymouth: fixtures which would effectively decide matters.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jules m 6 Posted September 8, 2010 This would indeed be sensible - particuarly when among the fixtures 'lost' because of the deadline are Rye away at Bournemouth and home to Plymouth: fixtures which would effectively decide matters.. Shame you can't choose your fixtures at the start of the season, you could have all the 'softer' meetings early on in the season and leave the hard ones til the end just in case you don't have to run them. Jules Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
21st century heathen 220 Posted September 8, 2010 The play offs are not even scheduled yet so we have the ridiculous situation where fixtures are run well in advance of the POs (our last fixture is a week today) but don't count towards the positions for the POs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted September 8, 2010 Shame you can't choose your fixtures at the start of the season, you could have all the 'softer' meetings early on in the season and leave the hard ones til the end just in case you don't have to run them. Jules Hmm, this is indeed a possibility!! As for the P/Os not yet being arranged , this is true making the 12th. a ludicrously early cut-off date! Though I also find it amazing in the Elite that there are matches tomorrow (Thursday) which once settled will allow the successful clubs to arrange their home matches in the P/O semis on the, er, Monday...! Yes, just three days advance notice... How do they maximise publicity for such meetings under such circumstances..?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jayne 312 Posted September 8, 2010 The play offs are not even scheduled yet so we have the ridiculous situation where fixtures are run well in advance of the POs (our last fixture is a week today) but don't count towards the positions for the POs. As I understand it the play offs will be scheduled early next week when we know who is racing who. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted September 8, 2010 Noew it's over to Plymouth at Perry Barr tomorrow...: a first ever visit there... As said before that seems an unlikely place for the Devils to get the win which would all but clinch it for them. And if they come away pointless that opens it up for the Buccs to grab at least a point at KL.. So Plymouth did lose at Perry Barr but sounds like they ran Dudley quite close... Certainly was never going to be the massacre the Buccs needed to see to overhaul Plymouth on points difference!!! Next up it's back to the Cobras looking to deny Plymouth 4th. and set a winning target for Bournemouth by winning on Saturday... The only problem for thenm is their opponents are Newport!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
heathen79 6 Posted September 8, 2010 So to recap on the race for first, Dudley have set the target at 42 and gone above Buxton. Do the Hitmen have no more matches before the cut-off then? If not, it's just down to Newport in their two away matches, who can reach 45 with two big wins? Or even the sufficient total of 43 with two narrow victories!? I use the question marks because I just never feel sure of the rules any more! If Heathens top the league, it seems the bext choice of opponents for us to beat would be those with the furthest distance for us to travel to! Even if Play-Offs are 'scheduled' next week though, there is no way that we can fit our semi-final in until October at the earliest as we have the KOC semi final next week, the pointless league match against Weymouth the following week (does that even need to be run now, with what will surely be a much lower than average crowd??) and then the Golden Hammer on the 28th September. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted September 8, 2010 Even if Play-Offs are 'scheduled' next week though, there is no way that we can fit our semi-final in until October at the earliest as we have the KOC semi final next week, the pointless league match against Weymouth the following week (does that even need to be run now, with what will surely be a much lower than average crowd??) and then the Golden Hammer on the 28th September. Well, no criticism of the Heathens but if this is the case and it does seem so, this makes it all the more shameful that this deadline of 12/9 is being enforced when a short extension would still allow the play-offs to start on the weekend of 1/10 - when it seems certain that's as early as they'll start in any case... Who is behind this constant state of shambles each year!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jayne 312 Posted September 8, 2010 Well, no criticism of the Heathens but if this is the case and it does seem so, this makes it all the more shameful that this deadline of 12/9 is being enforced when a short extension would still allow the play-offs to start on the weekend of 1/10 - when it seems certain that's as early as they'll start in any case... Who is behind this constant state of shambles each year!!!!! The 12/9 deadline was agreed by all the chairmen at the AGM prior to the start of the season. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted September 8, 2010 The 12/9 deadline was agreed by all the chairmen at the AGM prior to the start of the season. And that's always been the case has it...: things agreed at the START of the season are never changed..?!! What would've happened if July and August had been incredibly wet and there were loads of fixtures short..? THEN it would have been extended.. Anyhow if that was the case about this set-in-stone play-off deadline why hasn't the approach taken in the EL been replicated in the NL, with semi dates for play-offs set aside.. After all Newport, Dudley and your club have known for some time that they were going to be in the P/Os: the only doubt has been over who finshes 4th. IF the play-offs start a week after the deadline then it looks like a properly organised, disciplined league and then fair enuff to have stuck to the deadline; BUT if there's not a P/O fixture until October it will look like a total shambles.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shad176 10 Posted September 8, 2010 so what would happen if october is wetter than august? :blink: carry it over and have them next april Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squall 270 Posted September 8, 2010 so what would happen if october is wetter than august? :blink: carry it over and have them next april Stop talking sense!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
