Quote Originally Posted by sapdad View Post
I was told that Rosebuds needed to only win the first game (13's) to get their PPG average above NIAS and guarantee promotion.They played the first game,won,got their PPG over NIAS then the rest of the games were called off due to weather.Pretty lucky huh.Anyway,they would have won at least one more game that day but luckily it all worked out for them and they stay up.The bigger issue is that if teams got 3 points for the win against a club that didnt field a team then Kahibah would still be in Div 2 and Rosebuds would be down.It turns out Kahibah were the only club that was punished for Rosebuds and NIAS not fielding teams.

PPG still would've come into play, even if we give Kahibah 3 points as Adamstown had a better PPG means they would be going up since all their games had not being played. You say they would've won one more game anyway which is true so that would put them on 75, not only 2 points ahead of Kahibah if they were given the 3 put also further ahead on PPG.

Also Adamstown didn't need to win just one game against Singleton, according to Northern before the weekend their PPG was 1.53 compared to NIAS 1.47 and Kahibah on 1.47 so were ahead of both anyway. It would've made more sense for Adamstown to play no games just to ensure they stay up.


I was told by one Kahibah coach that they knew they weren't going to get in about a month ago and so were just focusing on the second phase now in the bottom tier so much so that they had given teams off from training. Perhaps they could've kept trying to get more wins rather than giving up early on. Northern didn't punish them, they punished themselves by resigning to defeat too soon.