The Virtual Terrace • Is Junior RL dying?
Alffi_7 wrote:
My lad plays for Latchford U'11s, 3 games in to the season and all played, supposed to be two weeks off but we have organised midweek friendlies vs St Judes and Hindley.
Very rare we see a game called off for any reason other than weather, but I suspect that may change as the age groups get older?
Yeah possibly. Someone PMd to say referee shortages are causing a lot of it as teams won't play without an official ref beyond 12s/13s. Looking through the fixtures and there appears to already be 19 games off for this coming Sunday across the age groups by Wednesday and I'm sure there will be more by the weekend. Shocked me last weekend when it was Lancashire Cup round and about four out of fifteen fixtures actually got played at U16s and teams are getting to the quarters of cups without playing a game. It was the same at the end of last season, in our league there was a huge disparity in terms of games played across the league. Looking at it now there are leagues with teams who have played once or twice and teams who have played 5 games.
Statistics: Posted by Saddened! — Thu Apr 07, 2022 1:52 pm — Replies 4 — Views 330