1 valve Posted Thursday at 02:24 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 02:24 PM 2 hours ago, marko said: No club should have a blank week, the fixtures should either state the opponent or state the date as reserved rain off, if there is no meetings to catch up on then there is no meeting, if any home meeting has been called off, they will use the first available reserved rain off date. Further to that, if any club has not completed all its home matches at the cut off date, those meetings are automatically awarded to the away teams. Very laudable, but also consider in the event of a rain off, a stated free week for the home team is not always the case for the away team who may have a home meeting themselves or away at another club. Fair to say most weeks where a meeting is not scheduled is a free week for rearranging rained off meetings aka Lions v Witches. Done. Very strange to punish a team for them having to postpone meetings due to factors beyond their control I.e the weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted Thursday at 02:39 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 02:39 PM 6 hours ago, IainB said: I think the general point is the lack of fixtures, we all understand calling a meeting off based on a dreadful forecast, that is the common sense thing to do, it's the huge gaps in the fixture list that these postponements cause. Back in the day a track would have an "off" race night that fixtures would be quickly rearranged for, if we're not going to do 1 point each and move on, which I understand is not popular with everybody maybe the PL should take a leaf from Sweden and Denmark and just run on the one night Monday or Thursday, If Monday is washed out you run on the following Thursday. You are absolutely spot on with teams historically having alternative race nights. These were used in order to catch up on the fixture list at a time when there were far more teams in the league too. Thus Lions had Tuesday as their regular race night with Friday being the “back-up”.Now they seem to race the majority of the time on Thursdays leaving Monday as their “spare”. Unless I am mistaken only the Lions, Aces, Stars & Witches have this flexibility generally available. Meanwhile, fair play to Lions & Witches for promptly sorting out the revised date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted Thursday at 02:44 PM Author Report Share Posted Thursday at 02:44 PM 1 minute ago, 1 valve said: You are absolutely spot on with teams historically having alternative race nights. These were used in order to catch up on the fixture list at a time when there were far more teams in the league too. Thus Lions had Tuesday as their regular race night with Friday being the “back-up”.Now they seem to race the majority of the time on Thursdays leaving Monday as their “spare”. Unless I am mistaken only the Lions, Aces, Stars & Witches have this flexibility generally available. Meanwhile, fair play to Lions & Witches for promptly sorting out the revised date. Still waiting for the KL match(es) to be rearranged though, as far as I'm aware. For a league with just 6 teams in it and with a spring with 23% less rainfall than usual, staging just 4 Lions matches in 3 months is a pretty pish poor state of affairs. I suppose that's what comes with limiting your trading hours to 2 and half hours a night on 2 days of a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted Thursday at 02:58 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 02:58 PM 5 minutes ago, IainB said: Still waiting for the KL match(es) to be rearranged though, as far as I'm aware. For a league with just 6 teams in it and with a spring with 23% less rainfall than usual, staging just 4 Lions matches in 3 months is a pretty pish poor state of affairs. I suppose that's what comes with limiting your trading hours to 2 and half hours a night on 2 days of a week. Yes, it’s interesting that the Stars are the common denominator in these instances. Maybe just a matter of fate that Lions were able to quickly rearrange the fixture with the Witches but not the case with the Stars for either of the two postponed fixtures, at KL or Leicester. The former which (as it turned out) was not affected by inclement weather. Maybe having to share their fence with Northampton is playing its part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted Thursday at 03:08 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 03:08 PM 9 minutes ago, IainB said: Still waiting for the KL match(es) to be rearranged though, as far as I'm aware. For a league with just 6 teams in it and with a spring with 23% less rainfall than usual, staging just 4 Lions matches in 3 months is a pretty pish poor state of affairs. I suppose that's what comes with limiting your trading hours to 2 and half hours a night on 2 days of a week. I suppose there was a possibility that with so few matches that the season could end early if meetings were ran regularly... The danger now of course, given so few meetings have happened, is, even with so few meetings to complete the season, the weather gods will intervene and we will get the usual "cram them in" so the play offs can take place.. Although, with no TV schedule to worry about they could run up to November I suppose.... But "cramming in" home meetings can, as we have seen in the past, provide attendance challenges over the piece... Sadly, it is all a bit underwhelming overall given so few meetings isn't it?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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