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bowes

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I wonder if they're restructuring the leagues or just slotting CLS teams into existing competitions?

There's a world of difference for Nottingham between playing in:

Nottingham

Leicester

Bedford

Coventry Dragons

Telford

Leamington

Northampton

and playing in:

Nottingham

Leicester

Derby

Boston

Sherwood Wolf Hunt

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I've got no idea what is happening with the Midlands leagues, but if the second option was true then that would require the abolition of our 2nd team, something which isn't going to happen.

It wouldn't surprise me if they went down that route the way the game is going
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I guess its only cost preventing that. Midlands teams like Scunthorpe and Chesterfield have played in the Yorkshire leagues before. Biddulph, Wrexham, Stoke and even South London have played in the North West Counties League.

I know in the 1990s there was a real push for clubs in the North East and East Midlands to play in the Yorkshire League. Clowne, Garibaldi, Nottingham Crusaders, Bulwell Warriors, Gateshead Panthers and Teesside Steelers come to mind. I would have thought travel to Yorkshire would be easier than the trips to Wales that Nottingham have had in the CLS?

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bowes

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Just checked and Gateshead Panthers were definitely still in the North East League in 1998-99. They may have joined the Yorkshire League in 1999-2000 or maybe the original source I read was getting confused with the juniors joining the Yorkshire Junior League

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Sunderland played in the York & district league for at least one season but without going through my records I don't know of any others more northern than Scarborough. In 1999-2000 Scarborough finished 7th of 8 in the Yorkshire league division 5. Teeside Steelers finished 10th of 10 in Yorshire league division 3.Garibaldi finished 9th of 10 in Yorkshire league division 2.

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I may be wrong but I think the North East league was quite short lived? Garibaldi seem to have been the last surviving of the non-Yorkshire teams in the Yorkshire League, although Peterlee Pumas entered for a couple of seasons at a later date

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It wasn't many moons ago a lot on here called BARLA for their lack of input into the South and Midlands, It now looks like the RFL has dropped these areas like an hot brick since they've wrestled the NCL, NWC, Cumbria & some of Yorkshire from BARLA.

 

I'm with Taxi, why do you need financial aid from the RFL, I ran a club from 2004 (winter and summer) to 2010, we travelled by coach and had all the nice trappings, when I stepped down I handed just short of £20,000 to the new treasurer and we are a pub side.

 

There's no money out there from sponsors, pitches are expensive, it's like pulling teeth to get money out of players.  I don't know what part of the country you're in but it's a daily struggle to make it down south.

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I guess its only cost preventing that. Midlands teams like Scunthorpe and Chesterfield have played in the Yorkshire leagues before. Biddulph, Wrexham, Stoke and even South London have played in the North West Counties League.

 Scunny is only 15 minutes further away from the heartlands than Moorends, just down the M180  motorway and Gateshead played in the Yorkshire Sunday League (Premier division I believe)

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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There's no money out there from sponsors, pitches are expensive, it's like pulling teeth to get money out of players.  I don't know what part of the country you're in but it's a daily struggle to make it down south.

I made a 5 minute phone call two months ago and got a new kit for Moorends Marauders  open-age and juniors.

 

Why not do like most clubs did before teams had sponsors, I bought and sold the clubs lottery like everyone else at the club, I honestly can't get my head around why any club has to rely on sponsorship money to run a club, do the simple things like forgetting  the bus and go in cars to away games, apart from insurance, league fee's, pitch rent (we cut and mark our own pitch and get it cheaper) equipment and referee what else is a must.

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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I may be wrong but I think the North East league was quite short lived? Garibaldi seem to have been the last surviving of the non-Yorkshire teams in the Yorkshire League, although Peterlee Pumas entered for a couple of seasons at a later date

I think Garibaldi had been Shirebrook or made up with ex-Shirebrook players.

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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https://web.archive.org/web/20010401121900/http://www.teessidesteelers.ukf.net/

 

Teesside Steelers played Yorkshire League division 2 in the 1998-99 seaon. They started the 1999-2000 season but they didn't finish it, hence the switch to summer.

Fell to bits once the Cumbrian's left Uni

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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I guess its only cost preventing that. Midlands teams like Scunthorpe and Chesterfield have played in the Yorkshire leagues before. Biddulph, Wrexham, Stoke and even South London have played in the North West Counties League.

Scunny where helped to be formed by Joe Walsh ex-Leigh, Warrington and GB winger, he'd previously turned out for Moorends based Marshland Rangers A.R.L.F.C.

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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I think Garibaldi had been Shirebrook or made up with ex-Shirebrook players.

The two clubs overlapped in time but there may well have been players move across. Shirebrook were based on Chesterfield players and Garibaldi players formed Mansfield Storm
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