News

The new season will kick off on Sunday 11 September 2011. As a number of teams are unavailable to play this week and with 4 teams involved in the semis and final of the tournament, there will be a restricted programme.

Our meeting on 6 September was poorly attended it has to be said with only 6 out of the 22 teams in turning up and two of those are Fleetwood and GS Heating, Sec and Chairman respectively.

It was agreed to stick to the same structure as last season with 2 divisions. As, rather disappointingly to say the least, many teams have stated their wish not to go up into Division 1, the lower division may once again contain 1, 2 or 3 more teams. This is not ideal and is a situation to be addressed come the end of the next season.

The only rule change we shall apply this season is to allow a player to return to the pitch having already been substituted in the unfortunate event of another player becoming injured after the substitution.

Total all-in cost is £350. This should either be paid all up front before your first game or, in order to spread the payments a little, a smaller up-front payment of £140 must be paid and a direct debit mandate completed for 4 x £52.50 payments to be taken from a specified bank account on 1st or 15th Oct 2011 til 1st or 15th Jan 2012.

Only 2 exclusions will be allowed if teams advise me 48 hrs prior to a game. Teams must be ready to kick off at the scheduled time. Games will commence with 4 players if a 5th player has not arrived on time. A walkover will be awarded to the other team if the 5th player has not arrived before half time.

Teams are strongly advised to get all players to wear the same colour shirts if not of course the same kit. Bibs will have to be worn at the discretion of the referee.

Colin
9 September 2011