Saturday 15th August

Dewsbury Celtic 32 - 48 Nottingham Outlaws
East Lancashire Lions v Liverpool Buccaneers
Featherstone Lions 62-6 Carlisle
Huddersfield Underbank 24-0 Gateshead

Sunday 16th August

Hemel v Warrington

Table - rlhererl

Apparently East Lancs Liverpool was postponed

Absolute disgrace that Huddersfield have now gain the points from Gateshead by default even though this was the game that Huddersfield could not play at the start of the saeson as they didnt have a strong team out.

I feel sorry for Gateshead as this fixture shoudl have been played earlier in teh season when they probably would have beat Huddersfield.

At least we beat them on Tuesday night although we probably cant finsh above them due to there unsportman like attitude earlier in the season !!

East Lancs unable to raise a team, game to be re-arranged for a midweek when they have their NWC players available.

excellent point made that needs addressing urgently; i also feel sorry for Gateshead

Hear Hear D

Perhaps a time frame on the length of delay allowed between "Postponed" fixtures and their re-scheduling would be of benefit??

Also, I previously suggested that the team that calls off the match forfeits the right to hold the HOME game by way of penalising them through loss of revenue / compensation to the aggrieved side

Sunday 16th August

Hemel 30-28 Warrington

Table - rlhererl

Fantastic game and it was as close as the score suggests. We are happy to take the 3 points but Warrington were unlucky not to get a draw.

Below is the league rules for 2009 regarding unfulfilled fixtures

10 Unfulfilled Fixtures

10.1 Should a fixture not be played because of one club’s inability to field a side, the following rules will apply with regard to the fixture outcomeThe failure of a club to fulfil a scheduled fixture is a serious breach of the RLC Rules. An offending club will face disciplinary action. In the event of clubs failing to fulfil fixtures, the RLC Management will decide the level of punishment which may include a fine, deduction of league points or expulsion from the League. All clubs failing to fulfil two fixtures in a given season will be required to seek their re-application to the RLC National competition.

You missed off
10.4.0. The League management Committee will make up the rules as it along.

That should be Underbank and East Lancashire Lions then (but of course they're all 'postponed'), although not Gateshead Storm as only one of the matches so far they should have had to play.

If they actually followed the rules those look very sensible rules, but whoever enforces the rules this year needs sacking, I'd rather have the strict NCL rulebook on this topic than the total arbitrariness we have now

It's the same person administering both competitions.

I agree with you Bowes about Gateshead, feel really sorry for them. They have been badly shafted

One competition has well followed rules and one makes them up willy nilly. I can't imagine the NCL turning a blind eye to a team scratching two weeks in the first 3 of the season because they haven't quite got their best team