Quote Originally Posted by Negative Police View Post
For sure. Only issues are
season would be over for 3/4 teams by half way. Although Might have to prepare better next time
grounds for extended season. cricket wont budge, upkeep of grounds
midweek fixtures. In the report NNSW said clubs found it difficult setting up mid week fixtures.
Cost for clubs for extra games, player payments
Firstly cricket can go **** themselves, but secondly part of the requirement to have an NPL licence is that they have access to the grounds year round. Surely Northern aren't allowing clubs to stay in the NPL without meeting the criteria. Though how many NPL clubs do share their grounds with cricket? And which ones?

You would hope the teams would prepare better if they knew they had to fight for the entire way bring in promotion/relegation and even those towards the bottom would have to keep fighting.

Yeah additional costs, hopefully they can recoup the cost of hosting, as for player payments, if all clubs have to pay less per game but the same over the year won't have too much of a change, players will still play.

Olympic and Valo have what carpet pitches on the side so I don't see how that can't be worked around as they don't play all weekend there
The cricket associations tend to claim they need it all weekend even if it is never used.