East Lancs v Leyland/Accrington has been postponed i see....this league is becoming a bit of a joke!

I and others have said all along the wholesale move to summer will take a lot of settling down and summer 2011 is going to end up as a rough guide for the full leagues due to start in 2012. It's probably not helped that a load of winter teams suddenly feared they were missing the boat and decided to switch at the last minute - hence the slightly ridiculous [url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/burybroncos/s/league-table-3730.html27-team Merit League[/url. There are also random cup and representative sides seeing out fixtures leading to a further drain on player resources.



With that late mass move to summer by loads of clubs, players who may have intended to go to teams like Mancunians and other summer-only sides suddenly find they can remain with their mates at their home club.



I think we all need to bear with it until every club finds its feet and decides where it can function best.

I can only see Bamber Bridge and Folly who are established NWC clubs who have joined the merit league this year though. BB are using it to give experience to new players and youngsters and I'm not sure if Folly will actually play a game as such.

Salford Central have entered with a view to establishing a NWC side for the winter and around 7 of those teams don't actually exist. Lots of RU clubs in though but they'll stay as just that.

There are a fair few NWC across the divisions - Leyland and Accrington in the premier, Cobras, Chorley and Cadishead in the regional and then there is the 2nd team at Leyland and Accrington and Salford Roosters are Eccles.



Back to the thread - Mancunians had a fair few lads from Cadishead and a few from Bury - both playing summer now. On top of that most of M&D have done something this summer. Of the M&D members - Eccles (Roosters), Folly as said, Cadishead, Little Hulton and Bury all playing summer or at least suggesting they will. Langworthy have played some friendlies too while Irlam have their lads back already for pre-season. Add on top that you can add Salford Central to the mix.



It's going to be very up and down for the next 12 months I think. What we do need from the RFL is what they are planing come August/September - and we need to know now.

hmmm....seems they're getting it sorted on one side of t'hills! hopefully they'll get something sorted here soon

Mancunians have sent a message via facebook this morning saying they got 18 players today so hopefully things are looking up for them. Probably could have done with playing someone else 1st game though.

edit - results are in:



Widnes West Bank 63 v 6 Mancunians RL

Liverpool Buccaneers 20 v 16 Wigan Riversiders

69 - 6 according to twitter feed. it also said west bank had just 13 players?!

we had 15 players because we had players playing\attending in town team game. luckily for mancunians we did have some missing because could of been a 100 easily. will they have a team next week they need to be back in the merit league. buccaneers struggling for numbers also. i was at NWC presentation last week and neil savage from wigan riversiders was dissappointed about them not having the same team that played against philly because there players only like playing home games???? never mind we play whos in front of us and good luck to all teams in this league and lets fulfill the fixtures.

fixtures for saturday.

mancunians vs accy and leyland. accy and leyland by 40 if mancs get a side.

wigan vs east lancs. wigan by 40 home game for wigan so they should be at full strengthand should have to much for a inexperienced side.

west bank vs buccaneers. west bank by 10. buccaneers seem very indifferent this season and depending on there team it could be a cracker of a game.

East Lancs have conceded their game at Wigan Riversiders. What a pile of disorganised e this years prem is, for the 2nd year running. Meanwhile we're playing teams in the merit league putting out 20 players week in week out with our 2nd team.

tottally agree with you JTB, got a feeling east lancs will concede against us at our place. Riversiders have only played one fixture now and had 2 conceded to them, there players must be pretty annoyed. at least next week you will have a fixture when you travel to our place, whats the point in mancunians and east lancs entering a side if they are going to concede.