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Reasonable approach but I didn’t feel the team had actually done much work for Levels 3/4 since November. More work for Level 5 down.

Left a big question mark about Level 2!

It is, but you can only really do that, I reckon, as part of a total review of the geography of the CBs themselves. 

Well, you could do it in isolation, but that would be just storing up problems IMO. If you take the M5 as the obvious one, then that does create a totally logical axis for that part of the country (as a Mose fan who has lived in both Exeter and Cornwall and has strong links with Bristol a Midlands (roughly based on North Midlands) and West division would make perfect sense to me). However, to the east of it are a host of clubs that look west for their local associations etc that you might have to make look east to even the numbers up.

Basically Midlands and West leaves you with North, and South Other. Midlands and West would logically take in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. But then what do you do about Wiltshire? And Dorset would be a really marginal call either way. And Notts, Derbys and Leics would want to be in the midlands too probably.

Basically IMO we've got too many CBs and the boundaries are in the wrong place. We do need CBs (again IMO), but I'd rip up all the existing ones and start again.

Does kind of prove my point though - it's 6 miles from Moseley's ground to Bournville's, both of which are in the same city. So would be disastrous to be separated from a crowd pov. 

Oh, and Moseley are quicker and closer to the M1 than Bournville, despite being on the bit of the M42 that's basically a spur of the M5!

If it came down to it I'd want to be in the M5 group though.

But that is going to happen somewhere - currently it is Licestershire where the split happens with one of two of the four sides (Hinkley, Leister Lions, Loughborough, South Leicester) going South and losing the local derbies.

As to the point of the CCB they run the county league and if we reain it - the County Championships

While the DOC run the regional leagues

And NCA run the National leagues

Camquin, good analysis! I suspect that Level 2 will actually go to 14 teams as that seems to come through very strongly in the RFU survey results for Levels 3/4. The NCA are insistent that there be 1 League at Level 3 but have accepted a 14 team League.

The current proposal will allow second teams to join the leagues but no higher than Level 6. Richmond are an exception, their second team is a Level 4 side and their third team a Level 4/5 team.

Think you left London Irish Wild Geese out of one of those leagues!