Zak Poole joins Sheffield RUFC

tigerburnie wrote:

I have heard a whisper about a second side being promoted from Nat1 into the Championship, which would mean another side promoted up from one of the Nat2 leagues, this might have an effect on who goes where I guess.

Surely this is nonsense? We know who the 12 Championship clubs are.

14 Champ clubs. The only way that would make sense would be if Worcester could not meet the debt repayment schedule agreed, or if another Champ club has financial difficulties to the point they could not fulfil fixtures next year.

Tigers stayed in N2N, but from their Facebook page it looks like they were going south but refused to go.

How does that work?

Red over White wrote:

backrowb wrote:

Tigers stayed in N2N, but from their Facebook page it looks like they were going south but refused to go.

How does that work?

It will be interesting to know what Lymm RFC think about this

Unhappy would be an understatement

My guess would be that Macclesfield requested (demanded) that they are in the North to celebrate their 150 years with other Northern clubs and Lymm being the next nearest club, were forced to move? Chester unfortunately for them were always going to move to West?

In Victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat, you need it

The real problem is that N1 has very few northern sides which means that there are too many northern sides at N2 level, so in the current configuration means some have to be moved to the South - normally South- west which is were the deficiency is,

RAID ON

We know what the problem is, but it has the solution been fair in this instance. Can a club just refuse and stay in the league they're at?

Is there any provision in the regulations for a club to reject the option of promotion?

By the sounds of the post on Sheffield Tigers Facebook they were initially chosen. What criteria was used for this and then what criteria was later used to decide Lynn should move instead? Surely some openness is needed. Did they get things wrong initially. How and why?

It will always be unfortunate and tough for any team at the outliers of their region, but clubs should understand what criteria these decisions are based on to ensure fairness and transparency to all. Surely having John Inverdale on speed dial can't be an adequate reason to change their minds

Edited by CarriedBackIn - 17 hours 29 minutes ago at 18:14

ThatBloke is wrong!

See Below from NLR Admin Instructions:

2.4.2 EXEMPTION FROM PROMOTION A Club is permitted to apply to the Organising Committee to request an exemption from promotion subject to the following conditions: • such request is received by the Organising Committee no later than the 31st of January of the Season. • subject to the Club achieving a promotion place, this right to submit a request is only available to each Club once on each occasion that it is at each level of the Leagues; and • the Club must demonstrate that promotion would be detrimental to the finances and infrastructure of the Club The request will be considered by the Committee who may request such additional information and supporting evidence as it requires. If a request is approved by the Committee and a Club is granted an exemption from promotion for the next season the following will apply: • if the Club finishes in an automatic promotion place, the highest placed Club in the league above who was due to be relegated the following season will be reprieved from relegation. • if the Club finishes in a play-off place, then their opponents shall be awarded a walk-over.

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