Let's have a winter break?

We've had so many games called off this season, mainly due to water logging of pitches, that it would have been better to scrap all formal games during December and January and concentrate on training and friendlies on Astro. The new Cheshire u18 league do this and it does seem sensible. Its a debatable point of course and everybody has their own view.

For each game called off there is a huge amount of abortive work. For example the main tasks we had to do in setting up Saturday's postponed Bolton Wanderers game were:

• Arrange date to suit both sides.
• Check on pitch availability with the club chairman
• Check on availability of our girls by text and verbal contact.
• Confirm with Bolton that we have 9 players.
• Re-confirm availability of our players this week.
• Contact Irby to invite 3 guest players.
• Irby's manager texted the 3 to check on availability and their desire to play our game at 9:30 and their league game at 12:30.
• Confirm with our club chairman that pitches are playable
• Contact a referee and check his availability.
• Check with our u12s to ensure no conflict of pitch use.
• Contact Bolton to check on pitch size preferred
• Contact Bolton to provide directions
• Bolton contact their girls to ensure transport arrangements leaving Bolton at 8am
• Irby confirm girls availability and playing positions
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• Club chairman confirms pitches not playable 5pm Friday.
• Inform Bolton, Irby, the ref and our girls
• Update website.

Anyway we will rearrange for a date in February.

Training this Tuesday. We don't yet have any details of our league fixtures for February, but as soon as we get them, we will put on here.