Men's League 6NE: 14 Mar: North Walsham 4 have withdrawn from the division.

League Trophies: 10 Mar:  Last year's winners are reminded that EML trophies must be returned to Samantha Menearand EWL trophies to Sarah Mann, by 30th March.  Your cooperation will be apppreciated in doing this as early as possible, -  and also in cleaning the trophies before return!
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EML - Ipswich : 26 Feb: Ipswich 5th has withdrawn from Division 5NE.

Match rearrangements in Herts and Beds: 22 Feb: clubs with outstanding postponed matches requiring pool umpires should note that HBHUA cannot raise pool umpires for Sundays without at least three weeks notice. In March there will also be extra demands on pool umpires for JAC competitions.  Please make your match rearrangements asap and give plenty of notice to Iain Fletcher of HBHUA.

Complete Rules Revision: 14 Feb :  The League Rules complete rewrite now includes a number of changes folowing comments from clubs.  Please take time to look through the latest draft and email the webmaster with any comments or suggestions. The draft can be seen or downloaded in Word format here.

League Management Meeting: 8 Feb: Minutes of the February meeting are available via the Meetings link.  Main items were review of season to date by the League Managers; problems with indoor postponments; actions regarding several serious disciplinary incidents; and proposed rule changes regarding university players, junior players transferring to senior hockey, and indoor postponments.

Access to Harlow HC: 5 Feb: Clubs travelling to Harlow should allow extra time as there are major roadworks on the A414 from Junction 7 of the M11 to the junction with the A1169 (Southern Way) and delays of 30 minutes are normal. These works are expected to last until autumn 2010.

EML - Bury St Edmunds : 5 Feb: BSE 5th team will withdraw from the East Men's League 6NE from 13th Feb onwards

EML - Havering: 26 Jan: Havering 5th team has regrettably had to withdraw from the East Men's League 7SE with immediate effect.

EWL - Bourne:  22 Jan: Bourne 2nd team has regrettably had to withdraw from the East Women's League 2NW with immediate effect. There are not sufficient resurces to complete the fixture list, nor to play friendly matches instead.

Cancellations:  18 Jan: Results for a number of divisions were posted on the site late this week, because League Managers were waiting for the results of matches that were in fact cancelled.  If your match is postponed, you must telephone that information to your League Manager/Results Coordinator (as appropriate) by the usual results deadline.  Failure to do so is not just ill-mannered, but a breach of rule 4.4 which can lead to a penalty.

Entering results in EWL- postponed games: 11 Jan: Please take the trouble to read the instructions on the input page - do not put P in the score boxes to indicate  a postponed game. Report the postponment to your League Manager who will do what is necessary.  A P in the score box will prevent display of the league tables.

St Ives Leisure Centre:  8 Jan:  This Centre has recently be renamed to
One Leisure St Ives.  Alll references here to the old name are now deleted.

Postponements: 6 Jan:  When a League Manager agrees a postponment the club must enter the new date, time and venue in the website match times and venues section and confirm these details DIRECTLY to the other club, the league manager, the results coordinator, and ESPECIALLY the umpiring pool organiser if in a division covered by a pool.  Entering the new details on the website is not in itself sufficient. 
There have been a number of badly organised postponements recently, leading to a great deal of time wasting and irritation for clubs, the league, and umpires.  Our collective patience on this is currently running very thin.
Be fully aware of league rules 4.2 on postponements generally and 4.5.1 on indoor postponements, as failure to follow procedures might cost you the match.

With current weather, it is likely that most games this weekend will be cancelled. You should rearrange these to as early a date as possible, not to the end of the season.  For EWL cancellations on the 9th Jan, the February break should be used, or a Sunday.  Given the likelihood of more bad weather to come, we should keep March 30 and April 10 free for as long as possible.  The leagues are scheduled to finish by April 11th, and we are unlikely to extend that deadline or else we will run into problems with the already tight schedule for closing the season and setting fixtures for the following season early enough for clubs to book pitches. To say nothing of giving a short break to those fules wot do this work.

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