National level 4: NATIONAL TWO PROPOSED STRUCTURE

Good evening all 

It seems the powers that be (NCA/RFU/ have  ‘sort of’ come up with a league structure fair  consistent and representative  of all regions and levels of  modern day rugby😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. That’s a joke!! 

They have decided on a dodgy. Big T Shape!! The top of the T north. Then a very strange crooked line west and east.

So let’s s get the map out and see where you lie. I have seen  the proposed line in the West and East dividing line . Staggered is the first emotion.!!! 

Now I thought I knew about the geography of the UK and so, I would never believe Chester would, under any circumstances be classed as South West!!!

Here’s me naively thinking of North/South/Midlands as a geographical split.

The mind boggles thinking with clubs will be in our league next year?

Just got visions of Chester v Canterbury playing in the south west league.

Has anyone got the info about the split?

I was looking forward to a regional split to cut down travelling which is prevalent in Nat 1 and above, but not so much the short trip to Redruth. Having said that I once completed that trip in 5 1/2 hours when I lived in Sheffield.

I can't be the only one who thinks this whole debacle should have been kicked into the long grass. Even if we hadn't been one of the teams being impacted I'd have still come to the same conclusion; how could the suits making these decisions get it so wrong?

I like to travel to away games, normally 4-6 per season, but the new structure is going to reduce the number of games I'll be able to get to and that's a real shame. The flip-side of course is other people are going to feel the same and not bother making the trip up north to us. I love to see away fans in the stand, cheering for their teams and having the craic, that's what live sport is all about for me.

Rothman2 - I wasn't able to make it over for Saturday's game, though it was one of the fixtures I was looking forward to when you came down the this level. PM me if you're coming over for the return leg. If yesterday is anything to go by then it should be a belter. 

The final structure at each level is going to depend on who is promoted.

If I were Chester, I would be praying for two Southern sides to come up from level 5.

And possibly a South Eastern side up from Nat 2 South.

 

Everything seems to come from the DOCs, not NLR. I think the DOCs are just monitoring performance week by week. They are also trying to maintain their relevance as Level 4 breaks free of the Divisional structure. For example, I have ears it said that level transfers won’t happen any more. How would that work in the Midlands? The boundary lines between the Leagues would be flexible so clubs like Lions, Hinckley, Newport and Luctonians could change Leagues every season! 

The St George’s meeting rejected this structure but it was adopted, mainly because of pressure from below. We have to find a way of making it work so I suspect the regular “ leaks” are a way of seeking input into a final structure that NLR is happy with.

The problem is not Redruth, it is suggesting that Chester is in the South West. 

Credulity can perhaps be stretched to include Stourbridge and Hinckley in the South West, but no further north or east than Hinckley, surely?