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This a copy of an e-mail that I have sent out to the rest of the committee this morning and I will take open views from the membership on here.


Lads,

I had a discussion with Andy Patrick last night re The Folly being shuffled up to Div.1 ,,,, Their argument was that the Farley Dukes had signed up players like Mev Ali, Graf Bishop and Mick O'Donnell (possibly Mick Samuels as well) who were with The UnPredictables who have not entered the summer league and they felt that players with that quality should not be in Div.3 and that Farley Dukes should take The UnPredictables status. Now thats all well and good but it would be just be a quick fix for 2014.

What is needed I think is to abolish the practise of teams being shuffled up over relegated teams and that relegated teams should be shuffled back up if the need arises. Geoff Glass introduced this system many moons ago and I think its now time to seriously review the situation as the system of forming divisions is not cast in stone within our rules. The argument was that if teams are relegated then they should stay relegated as it was not fair to re-instate them into their previous division if shuffle-ups were to apply but on the other hand surely its also unfair to shuffle-up teams that finished 3rd, 4th, 5th etc etc who were not good enough to be promoted. Its a sticking point I know but does need to be looked at.

This is how the summer league set up would look if we was to abolish the Shuffle-Up system as it stands

Your views lads would be appreciated.


Division 1
THE PROPELLER
THE BETTER HALFS
THE WARBANK
FORUM ‘A’
LOCK,STOCK & 2EB’s
FRAMES RACK PACK
THE WIZARDS (R/SU)
RILEYS SNOOKER (R/SU)
FARLEY LOYALISTS (P)
LEGENDS (P)
GOODFELLAS (SU)
AWFUL JUAN & ONE FERRULE (SU)

Division 2
BROMLEY LABOUR CLUB BOSHERS (LT)
THE FOLLY
ONE PLAYER SHORT (LT)
MAPLE TREE
THE VIEW TO A KILL (R/SU)
FARLEY DUKES (R/SU)
RILEYS MISFITS (P)
PENGE CON BOYS (P)
FARLEY SMALL POTATOES (SU)
JOLLY SAILOR (SU)
FLYING MACHINE (SU)
BYE

Division 3
ANOTHER VIEW (LT)
THE LORD NAPIER
LANGLEY LODGERS (R/SU)
BIGGIN BLUNDELLS (P)
CUE SLAMMERS (P)
PAWLEYNE QUIRKS
PAWLEYNE ARMS
5 DOWN (LT)
FORUM ‘B’
PCC ORIGINALS (NT)
YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED (DNT)
BYE