The Batley chairman has mentioned something similar to Chalmers. Some of the Championship clubs said they would vote against the restructure in meetings with Chalmers and the advisory board,then on vote day did the opposite.

This was also my understanding of what he was talking about. I didn't get the connection to the Yorkshire Cup though.
Praising an owner is nerve wracking after some of the previous characters, but Chalmers seems to be doing a good job of building up positivity around Odsal again. Nobody's perfect and I agree with the comments made on here about some of his outbursts. There's no need for it. He seems to have built bridges with a number of clubs and forged good relationships with their chairmen. However if someone gets up his nose he doesn't hold back from saying so in public. A club Chairman should be able to rise above that stuff.
If this turns out to be his only fault then I guess we'll learn to live with it. It is wrong though, but shouldn't distract from the overall excellent job he appears to be doing.

Every non super league team in yorkshire are in it. They are therefore the "like minded clubs" and for whatever reason Sheffield and Donny didn't want to be involved.

Chalmers may be a bit marmite but actually there's plenty of evidence that he's seen as a trusted advocate for the lower leagues by many other clubs. I realise he can antagonize but part of me is pleased that there's someone willing to stand up for the clubs outside of SL. Or at least stand up for those clubs that don't toe the SL line through duel reg induced fear.

Yes, I think that's correct. I think he's mentioned before about clubs, not wanting to upset their loan or dual-reg partners, who said one thing and voted otherwise.

Being said over on TRL that we'll start the Yorkshire Cup on January 6th with a game against Halifax, part of a double header with Batley vs Hunslet. The other games on the same day at Featherstone

Also, the first round losers will go into a 'Plate' competition.

It seems another intense pre season the, we’ve confirmed York anD Giants plus a comp with a plate option if we lose in rd 1

Plus the game against Toronto.

Blimey. How many games will we play in total ?

Five.

Good job "pre-season" covers quite a long time. We could do with starting next week..

Won't it be potentially six?

York
Huddersfield
Toronto
Halifax in Yorkshire Cup
Semi Final in Cup or Plate
Potential Cup or Plate Final

That’s correct, apologies. I wasn’t counting the game that clashes with the Huddersfield game on 13/1/19 as one of those games will be a run out for reserve and academy players - similar to watch we saw at Dewsbury this year.

Home or away?

Haha, I assume you know its about -10C in Toronto in January, plus a boat load of snow?

Just like Thrum Hall in the old days?