Vets League 10 team withdrawals
- League News
- May 26, 2021
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League News
A number of teams in the Veterans League have withdrawn from their knock-out competitions and more are anticipated. A total of 10 teams have already withdrawn from the 3 team knock-out competitions with the first round of the Sub-Team KO scheduled for this Thursday.
The full list currently being
Team KO: Rastrick, Elland C&BC 'A'
Sub-Team KO: Kirkheaton Con 'B', Broad Oak 'B', Elland C&BC 'B'
Bistro: Rastrick, Elland C&BC 'A', Elland C&B 'B', Broad Oak 'B', Marsh United 'B'
Maybe the time as come for the entries of all these competitions to be submitted at the start of the season thus allowing teams to either not enter or to enter 1, 2, or 3 teams of their choice. By doing this all being well it will lead to a smooth running competition and no teams dropping out.
Holmfirth "B" now withdrawn from next weeks Bistro
You are right that some of those clubs are familiar as Rastrick and Elland usually withdraw from mid-week KO competitions as their bowlers have commitments elsewhere. Apart from them the others seem to be one-off withdrawals although one perennial withdrawer has still to come forward yet. We are really struggling to riase a B team at Kirkheaton Con only managing 7 bowlers for the league match this week and it was worse than that for the Sub-Team KO match tomorrow. We could have put 4 A team bowlers in and fulfilled the fixture as the rules do allow that but it was decided that wouldn't be fair on our opponents and it was better to withdraw. Big decision to be…
Some of these Clubs look familiar to previous season withdrawals. So , the interesting question is , how does these withdrawals compare to the last season ? Philip of Lindley