Club championships can't be used as a relegation tool as it would impact 1st grade.

Stacking lower grades come finals is already an issue for some people.

As an example, If team 1 knew they weren't competitive in 1sts by the halfway mark of the season they could just drop a few 1st graders into reserve grade to assure club championship points and over take someone like Team 1, who are trying to win 1st grade games by rotating the best guys from reserve into their team each week.

Unfortunately the world isn't perfect and Charlestown were relegated because they finished last, Morisset's struggles this year didn't impact on that happening.


I'm also very sure that Morisset had fully intended on fielding 3 competitive teams this year and are disappointed that they have had to resort to not fielding a 3rds team. By all accounts they asked to be relegated to ZL2 as soon as they worked out the issue, however that request was denied. The association is the one who made the decisions that led to it, so if anyone is unhappy I guess it should be aimed at the association rather than Morisset.