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[RS]

Decent signing to be announced today should add a little steel to the team. Website up at 6pm too.

[bowes]

Nope - though the line-up of Conference South and fixture format should be announced soon, as clubs have been asked about different season structures etc

http://www.yorkshire...th-to-launch-in

Conference South has been launched with six teams (Bristol Sonics, St Albans Centurions, Leicester Storm, Northampton Demons, Nottingham Outlaws, Sheffield Hallam Eagles).

Looks like clubs have voted for 15 games and triple round robin.

[HappyDave]

http://www.yorkshire...th-to-launch-in

Conference South has been launched with six teams (Bristol Sonics, St Albans Centurions, Leicester Storm, Northampton Demons, Nottingham Outlaws, Sheffield Hallam Eagles).

Looks like clubs have voted for 15 games and triple round robin.

Nice one! Great stuff! Alhough the name is a little confusing seeing as only 2 of the teams are in the South.

[keighley]

Nice one! Great stuff! Alhough the name is a little confusing seeing as only 2 of the teams are in the South.

It's a little disapointing that there is no London based team there after the successful expansion there in the last few years. A little worrying for the future if the amateur game here also. At least the league is up and running and can add teams in the next few years if they express an interest.

[bowes]

It's a little disapointing that there is no London based team there after the successful expansion there in the last few years. A little worrying for the future if the amateur game here also. At least the league is up and running and can add teams in the next few years if they express an interest.

Apparently 4 clubs have expressed an interest in joining in future and at least one of them is London based. 2 of them would have been ready this year were it not for travel costs IMO.

Hemel, Skolars and South Wales have all decided to run U20 teams rather than reserves otherwise this league would have been bigger.

[jannerboyuk]

Decent signing to be announced today should add a little steel to the team. Website up at 6pm too.

do you have the web address yet rs?

[bowes]

Looks like All Golds are running U20s!

[audois]

Although its a bit disappointing to have just the 6 for the Southern Conference opening campaign the interest of four others may be in 2014 is encouraging. Yes Skolars, Hemel and UGAG would have added credibility but those clubs now deciding to running U20s is a further plus already for the game in the midlands & south. Exciting times.

[MidlandsRugbyLeague]

Nice one! Great stuff! Alhough the name is a little confusing seeing as only 2 of the teams are in the South.

Why? Fold the map in half and all bar Sheffield are in the southern half and even using Watford Gap thats still three!

[bowes]

Why? Fold the map in half and all bar Sheffield are in the southern half and even using Watford Gap thats still three!

Nottingham's probably northern half

[MidlandsRugbyLeague]

Nottingham's probably northern half

I had this debate every night in my first year at uni.... the A52 is the is the dividing line.

[Odsal Outlaw]

To Northerners Nottingham is South, to southerners it is North. Like a lot of the Midlands nobody wants to really claim it as their own!

[keighley]

To Northerners Nottingham is South, to southerners it is North. Like a lot of the Midlands nobody wants to really claim it as their own!

I'd love to claim it as league's though. Coventry will be the first semi pro step in that direction next season to be the tip of the midlands league iceberg topping the conference and uni teams.

[marklaspalmas]

I had this debate every night in my first year at uni.... the A52 is the is the dividing line.

Mmmmmm those crazy student days, eh?

[Wolford6]

Tamworth is the centre of England

[Northern Sol]

It's a little disapointing that there is no London based team there after the successful expansion there in the last few years. A little worrying for the future if the amateur game here also. At least the league is up and running and can add teams in the next few years if they express an interest.

You mean Broncos don't create huge interest in grassroots rugby league in London!

[bowes]

A league along this basis was proposed in 2010 and even then West London and South London didn't want to know. Now they have to merge to be able to exist at a lower level than the one they were individually doing very well in back then.

[Northern Sol]

A league along this basis was proposed in 2010 and even then West London and South London didn't want to know. Now they have to merge to be able to exist at a lower level than the one they were individually doing very well in back then.

Indeed. Sadly London rugby hasn't moved on in the last few years even though Herts, the North East and the Midlands have.

[RS]

Back on topic - squad list, not sure what experience there is


http://www.allgoldsr...m/#.UPp1JB2TmSo

[bowes]

Looks a young side to me guess that's the student and Leeds academy element?