All teams paid up and collected their fixtures last night. Big thanks to everyone for making this pretty painless. It makes things easier after the rushing around trying to get the paperwork and website up to date. Still got more to do though.
I hope that I’ve not made any glaring errors with the fixtures. I’ve run them through the computer to check and validated them as much as possible.
There is a mistake on the Rules I published which was spotted. For clarity, the HOME team provides the Scorer and announcer not the AWAY team. Funnily enough I sent out the same rules last year and nobody spotted it so it wasn’t just my bad editing 
As you know the teams are drawn at random so sometimes you get the teams you want and sometimes not. Given the number of teams and the length of the season I hope that it isn’t too bad and remains fairly competitive in both ‘Zones’. I had considered 3 Zones this year to give more teams a chance of a trophy but the season would have been too short really and should there be an issue with a team completing it’s fixtures, it would have ruined the experience for the other teams in that Zone. I think we’ll look at promoting the league more next year to see if we can attract 3 more teams to make this viable. The good thing is the league is growing year on year and I’m delighted at the support and enthusiasm we get from the teams to make this successful.
The Champion of Champions will be a play off between the top 2 teams from each Zone this year to make more of an evening of it and keep up interest in grabbing one of those top spots . It’s an additional fun end of season event so we’ll try and work out a format which allows all of the matches to be played on the one evening at one venue. I hope whichever format we choose works out but we will of course review it again for next year and try something different if the feeling is that it didn’t make the matches enjoyable or fair.
The venues for the Competitions are yet to be decided – Now we have the dates we’ll need to check availability to see where we play them.
Hope everyone has a great summer. Good Luck and hope to see you at some point during the season – Mick Shepherd
