Quote ="shawy1981"I can see why Langworthy are vexed about having to come up here 2 weeks running but what your saying isnt exactly true. This weeks fixtures were given out more than a week in advance and although the fixture list showed a free weekend it was stated on the email showing the cup draws that any team not involved in preliminary rounds of the cup would possibly have a game as this weekend would be used for backlog fixtures. It seemed pretty obvious we would be playing this week as you have already failed the fixture once but we asked not to be given the points as we would rather have the game.'"
Our coach received the e-mail saturday with the fixture so that is only 6 days to sort it out...but like cowies said the league should have a bit of common sense and swap the fixtures round especially with the 4 nations final kicking off at 6, why give a free weekend for the double header at wembley and not for the final at leeds when its more likely that more people from the north west are likely to travel over to leeds. We knew that we were likely to be given a fixture this weekend but after playing ulverston up there last weekend we though the league would have give us something a bit more local that doesn't require 2 1/2 hours travelling each way, don't forget the cost of a coach is a lot more expensive than normal weekly subs and to expect people to stump up extra money two weeks in a row especially in the middle of a recession is farcical...no wonder so many clubs jumped ship to summer rugby so quickly because the running of NWC is a joke at the best of times.
