Impartial Observer

Were you not at the CC final replay at Odsal in 1954??

Will be a major upset if WWR win this

Clubs do get money if a player has played with their juniors goes onto to sign for a pro club, they get more if they play a game and again if they play 10 games. Cannot remember the money the club i was at last season got but it was a decent amount for a couple of players.

Rag

I know when Hemel were based in Dewsbury they were paying some of their players £75 per game plus £75 win bonus

By choosing 8 clubs to go into a prelim round you have seeded it and it isnt a 'proper draw'.

I doubt they would have got invites as it looks like the NCL had 21 entries which would go to the top two divisions.

Egremont haven't entered for a few years, according to the paper Wath Brow have said the 1st round is too early for them to play as they only start pre season training early in the new year. Not sure about Kells

Didn't a couple of these 12 struggling clubs try to join the NCL recently which suggests they are doing ok?

Kells, Wath Brow & Egremont turned down the invite to take part

I did mean in previous seasons when they were playing Friday & Monday

It was actually the clubs who wanted two games over Easter as they thought they could get bigger crowds in

Where has it been said that there will not be any Police involvement in this

If they are playing in the community game they should be eligible for the tour, Chris Siddons played a handful of games last season for york, would you not allow a player to tour if he has played 1 game as a pro ? Also a player could sign for semi for a semi pro team on a pay to play basis and not play a game so never got paid, would he be excluded?

I see Fryston have now appeared in the Div 2 fixtures, maybe their ban has finished