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Winter League,

Annual Achievements & Messages ⇓

A big congratulations to…

Winter League 2022/23

The Lancaster Nomads – 1st Division Champions

Mike Logan – 1st Division Merit Leader

Lancaster Uni C – 2nd Division Champions

David Pinnington & Paul O’Sullivan – 2nd Division Merit Leaders

Summer League 2023

Lancaster Nomads – Top-8 Champions

TBC – Bottom-8 Champions

TBC – Top-8 Merits Leader

Brandon Jackson – Bottom-8 Merits Leader

2023 Annual Achievements

The Lancaster Nomads – LPL KO Cup Winners

Reform Relegators – LPL KO Plate Winners

Mike Logan – LPL Singles Champion

Luke Baldwin & Craig Dodd – LPL Doubles Champions

Summer League Split!

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The split of the 2022 Summer League has now taken place. We have 6 teams in each half, with the fixtures for the final 5 weeks of the season available at https://www.lancasterpoolleague.org.uk/fixtures-results/.

A full reversal of the fixtures seen pre-split hasn’t been possible, but I’ve gotten as close as I could, so apologies if you find yourself home (or away) twice to the same team!

Any questions regarding the fixtures, send them my way via the usual methods of Facebook, text, or email.

League Update – March 2022

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Bit of a league update for everyone!
Firstly, as some will have already heard, Melbourne B have withdrawn from the league, as of the conclusion of Matchweek 9. All previous results against Melbourne B have been scrapped, and both player stats and league tables have been updated to reflect this. Lancaster Uni have offered their C Team as available on upcoming match nights, in the event a team that was due to play Melbourne B wishes to play a friendly. Get in touch with myself for contact details.
The postponed KO Plate match between Reform Relegators and Squires Bombers will now be played on 30th March. The Plate SFs have been pushed to the following week to accommodate this (and the website fixtures now reflect this). Apologies for the miscommunication that resulted in this game not being playable on the original date!
For those teams that have postponed games (Melbourne A and Lion Bar Stewards), please note there are no free Wednesdays until the conclusion of the league season. Therefore, if dates are suitable, please arrange to play your outstanding games during one of the Cup weeks at the end of the season (in the event that neither you/your opponents are involved in the competition), or provide 3 dates to your opposition for them to select a date to play.
The Cup and Plate Semifinals have also been drawn, as follows:
Cup Semi-Finals (30th March)
 – Melbourne A vs The Wolfpack
– Athletico Bowerham vs Rogue Traders
Plate Semi-Finals (6th April)
 – Railway A vs Relegators/Bombers
 – Lancaster Uni B vs Bobbin Along
As ever, the home team is drawn first.

Winter League 2021/22 and Concluding the Covid-19 Season

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In lieu of the reducing of restrictions and pubs now returning to (almost) normal operation, the committee has now deemed it suitable to look at restarting the Lancaster Pool League, and as such, would like to request teams register for the upcoming 2021/22 Winter League.

In order to minimise the requirement for meeting in person, this can now be done online via the form on this page. We ask that only the captain (or a single representative) from each team completes the form, in order to speed up the organisation of the upcoming season.

There are also a couple of optional questions pertaining to a vacancy within the League Committee (following Cian Jarvis’s departure), as well as an open submission for any issues to be raised at an AGM.

While we’ll endeavour to make such a meeting accessible to all from a distance (via some form of an online video call), we’d equally like to encourage attendance from captain’s that are comfortable, in order to both support the host venue, and to facilitate ease of discussion surrounding any matters that are raised. The AGM is currently pencilled in for 7pm, 6th October, at Reform Club. Changes to either the time or venue will be published if and when needed.

The league itself is pencilled in to commence on 27th October, with fixtures subject to team signups.


In regards to the curtailed 2019/20 season, it has been decided, due to both the number of fixtures remaining, and due to change in circumstances for a number of teams involved (notably the annual reshuffle of the University cohort and the loss of the Hornets Bar table), the league season will be scrapped, along with the cup competitions, with entries paid by teams to such competitions being rolled over into the upcoming 2021/22 season. The individual and doubles competitions will play to a finish with the traditional “Finals Night”, ahead of a new competition to run at the start of 2022, as per the usual timeline. If you are still in the running in either of these competitions, please endeavour to play any outstanding matches in the competitions. All fixtures up to, but not including, the last 16 in the singles, and up to but not including the quarter-finals of the doubles, need to be completed ASAP (a finals night date is TBC, but expect this to be some time in November or December).

While we understand that some teams will be disappointed by this decision, we aren’t able to complete the remainder of the previous season and ensure that the matches would be of the same standard as prior to the pandemic, and as such results would be unfairly skewed due to the number of matches completed by teams being both unequal and unevenly distributed between the fixtures.

 

We look forward to getting back to regular Wednesday night action, and hope to see you all back on the baize very shortly.