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[Silvia Saint]

Full story at http://therfl.co.uk/news/article/21026

Rugby League’s Community Board has approved proposals for a March to November based four tier pyramid structure for the sport after reviewing the results of a public consultation which demonstrate widespread support for the plan.

The Community Board will now meet on March 10 to agree on and approve overall operational and competition rules for the new structure and formally agree and publish the timescale for its implementation.

[bowes]

Good to hear, though the really important question is will the NCL switch as the northern conference.

Guess the Southern Conference will in reality be one division, not three. In the west midlands I'd be interested to see if we run 2 small divisions or one big one, the former's probably preferable even if the 2nd one is merit league based.

[jonnyg28]

So on the North side if thing we could have, NCL clubs, RLCN clubs, the North West Regional Leagues and the North West Counties?

[bowes]

Yeah though below the northern conference all NW teams would be in one pyramid presumably split into Lancashire and Cumbria or something below the Premier. Some would no doubt play in winter still though

[Dessie O'Hare]

So on the North side if thing we could have, NCL clubs, RLCN clubs, the North West Regional Leagues and the North West Counties?

http://www.therfl.co.uk/uploads/7473.jpg
The national premier north, national north 1 & 2 is definitely aimed at the current NCL with NCL minimum standards criteria entry run by the current NCL management.
The national NW & NE appears to be aimed at RLC clubs and the better regional sides currently playing winter that do not meet NCL criteria.

[LONGMAN]

http://www.therfl.co.uk/uploads/7473.jpg
The national premier north, national north 1 & 2 is definitely aimed at the current NCL with NCL minimum standards criteria entry run by the current NCL management.
The national NW & NE appears to be aimed at RLC clubs and the better regional sides currently playing winter that do not meet NCL criteria.

That sound good to me, with very little change to the managemenet and structure of the NCL.
All we want now is a majority vote in favour of going summer.

[bowes]

http://www.therfl.co.uk/uploads/7473.jpg
The national premier north, national north 1 & 2 is definitely aimed at the current NCL with NCL minimum standards criteria entry run by the current NCL management.
The national NW & NE appears to be aimed at RLC clubs and the better regional sides currently playing winter that do not meet NCL criteria.

Sounds good. Featherstone Lions may try to join the northern conference? Though depends how they manage without players from winter clubs I guess.

The only thing I find strange is having a NW wide Premier (including Cumberland) and a Yorkshire wide premier below the North West and North East conferences. Unsure if you'd get 2 layers of clubs prepared to travel that much. Though the idea of letting the best NE clubs in with Yorkshire is good though, guessing Gateshead Lightning will be the first, but Peterlee may well want to look at it at some point.

[bowes]

How did the NCL meeting go last night?

BARLA are meeting the 23rd to discuss this.

[yanto]

Cumberland ARL have proposed this to their members regarding running the CARLA competition.
"The proposal is that we will start the season in march, play four months til june then have july and august off so people can have holidays, then we will commence in september and finish season in november."

I suppose its up to the clubs to decide if they want to join the pyramid or stay in a summer CARLA competition.(if thats the way the vote goes.)

Players are already saying they don't want the summer break.

[bowes]

Cumberland has voted to switch to summer, but it will be as the Cumberland League affiliated to BARLA, not part of the RFL's pyramid. One step at a time is how I see it, can't see them having enough clubs to split between the pyramid and the Cumberland League, though guess a couple of the better sides could step up to the North West Conference if they want. Division 2 of the Cumberland League in summer would seem the logical place for East Cumbria Crusaders to go IMO

[tim2]

Cumberland ARL have proposed this to their members regarding running the CARLA competition.
"The proposal is that we will start the season in march, play four months til june then have july and august off so people can have holidays, then we will commence in september and finish season in november."

I suppose its up to the clubs to decide if they want to join the pyramid or stay in a summer CARLA competition.(if thats the way the vote goes.)

Players are already saying they don't want the summer break.

Why don't they just ask people who already play summer? I can tell them that it's perfectly possible to play in July and get teams out. You might want a break from matches in August, but you can run festivals to keep things ticking over (and raise money).

[bowes]

Yeah it is about August time when the most forfeits happen isn't it (as well as clubs that don't make the starting line in round 1 and 2)? Though how much of it is holidays and how much of it is cumulative injuries over the season I wouldn't be able to say

[bowes]

National Conference League has voted to approve their part of this by 28-10 and will become the Conference League (North). This will also bring their reserves to summer too. Interesting times.

[Dessie O'Hare]

National Conference League has voted to approve their part of this by 28-10 and will become the Conference League (North). This will also bring their reserves to summer too. Interesting times.

Hold on the reserves, Bowes.
It proved a very unpopular fudge.

No funding,
12 clubs apparently dont have fully functioning A teams at present.
Format still to be set.
A merit league was talked about for some, a regional or localised for others.....

[Stag Fan]

National Conference League has voted to approve their part of this by 28-10 and will become the Conference League (North). This will also bring their reserves to summer too. Interesting times.

Linky please

[bowes]

Linky please

It's on the NCL forum. Though I should be able to get you a link o their website later

[bowes]

12 clubs apparently dont have fully functioning A teams at present.
Format still to be set.
A merit league was talked about for some, a regional or localised for others.....

Guess 3rd teams could play in the merit league. Going to be tough though, guess they can in some cases have RLC and BARLA clubs join to have more teams.

[thestatman]

Linky please

http://www.nationalconferenceleague.co.uk/article/n-c-l-makes-historic.html