Heya all

I personally don't think its the finals that take too long to complete or organise at all. The last couple of seasons has seen the round robin matches taking ages to complete.
As we all know finals don't start until these are completed and last season in particular took extra long to complete for whatever reasons.
My C grade team for example waited 6 weeks before the finals were able to be played and thats crazy when the season gets into a situation like that.
I know circumstances can change & that life will always take precendence over trivia but there should be a process in place where these late games can be monitored or deadlines or penalties applied when games are taking extra long as an extra measure.
I like the present finals format as it gives a team two goes at the final if they prove to be good enough.

My two cents worth


Cheers

AklDude
FireHorse wrote:
Interesting ideas guys.

The idea with the finals format as it stands is fairness, by only cutting one or 2 teams from finals there is less pressure to field the very best team during the heats and therefore coaches would be more likely to be a little flexible come booking time... at least thats the theory anyway.

By having the fun matches in between league seasons it allows up to 2 weeks per round of finals giving the coaches plenty of time to organise their teams for the elimination bouts.

Having 3 league seasons per year is a lot of work and we would need more volunteer staff to lighten the load of the existing staff (who by the way do a fantastic job!)

I am all for change and if there is enough interest to try it then perhaps we should give it a go. I can put another poll on the front page and see what the members think, perhaps we would get a better indication from everyone as I know a lot of people wont make posts

FireHorse