North One West 2019/20

All rugby suspended I'm hearing

a few of options, I think

1. the leagues are suspended, no promotion/relegation (most likely, I think)
2. the leagues are suspended and results stand with promotion/relegation going ahead with the current league positions (unfair, IMHO)
3. a "pools panel" convene and works out the likely outcome of the remaining fixtures, awarding points accordingly.

Will every club survive until next season ?

Those who can go back to 1962/3 ( I think) will remember that loads of games were cancelled post Xmas and lots of clubs suffered a real drop in revenue. And that was when clubs ran 3,4,5,6 and more teams.

RFU need to focus on what is best for the game as a whole - I also understand that Sir Clive has a new plan but I've not read it yet!

I reckon there's gonna be a few arguments with  unequal games being played, especially for those being relegated. As it stands, Burnage & York are replacing Carlisle & Ilkley, which I think is right. No play offs, just champs going up. Well done to all at Burnage, well deserved.

Has that been confirmed ? Carlisle surely won't be happy

I think this is going to prompt the long awaited restructure of all leagues. Too many clubs are under serious financial strains every season. This very long break though, with little to no revenue coming in over these next months due to cancellations of booking to use facilities for conferences etc and over the summer is going to see a number of clubs fold I feel...

No argument with the logic but in this league there have been any number of shock results so plenty of scope for debate.

Burnage has been consistent and the title was for it to lose so no real argument with them going up HOWEVER the ever focussed and objective Mike GC has highlighted the financial problems Burnage ,as well as many other sides, now face.

The Prem clubs are cutting both wages and staff and many of them are holding on to money ( including some of mine) taken for ticket sales. If they are obliged to reimburse both season ticket holders and those who have purchased tickets in advance then that could seriously damage cash flow at a time when, like Burnage,other sources of revenue have dried up.

It is not beyond the realms of possibility that a Prem club could go under BUT the RFU should be focussing on,and supporting,ALL the teams below the Prem BUT NOT by subsidising payments to players.

Will the RFU step up?

I  can only sympathise with Mike & the Burnage boys, fully deserving to be crowned winners but this predicament of losing valuable revenue knowing the increase required to go up is a tough one. There could well be an argument for status quo from level 5 down & we go again next year.

Edited by Loo fighters - 22 Mar 2020 at 12:17

I think that the whole thing will change in the future as there will no longer be the money to pay payers at regional level.

Keeppushininthescrum wrote: In north 1 you wouldn't of put a pound on the winner, anyone in the top six could of realistically of won the league . It should be a case of asking who inside the top six stands a chance of staying up and i dont think Burnage fall into that category.

That would be very subjective and cause lots of dissent if say the team in 5th was deemed to have won on this basis.

Average points would seem to be the fairest solution