Quarter-Finals
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:14 pm
Notts beat Hertfordshire 9-7 in the Under 140 quarter-final played today.
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It was our opponents that requested a match reschedule - not us.David Pardoe wrote:Well done in managing to reschedule your match.
Not always easy to get these things played...the challenges of chess are many fold
Only five teams appear to have been prepared to play.Neil Graham wrote:Yorkshire have conceded their U-180 match to Essex by default.
Essex are also in the Minor Counties and Surrey in the Championship. They are presumably confident they have enough players of the required strength.Quarter-finals (A) M1 (Warwicks) v bye S3 Kent Middx Sussex (Kent, Middx and Sussex decline nomination. Herts, who did not play in the U180 at the Union stage, were then invited but said no. This exhausts the possibilities and there is no S3); (B) Yorks (N1) v Essex (S2); (C) Surrey (S1) 9 7 Lancs (N2); (D) Devon (W) v bye
Semi-finals Devon (W) v Warwicks (M1); Winner of (B) v Surrey (S1)
I guess that something similar might have happened to the Notts v Herts U140 match, if an alternative match date could not have been agreed.Neil Graham wrote:Yorkshire have conceded their U-180 match to Essex by default. Obviously the £100 fine has had little effect; Yorkshire conceded at the same stage of the competition last year (to Kent).
Alex's belief that applying disproportionate penalties will concentrate minds (and player availability) for the better is unshakeable, notwithstanding the evidence to the contrary. We can only hope that of the matches that do go ahead, this year none of the results will be overturned afterwards by virtue of an inadvertent infringement of the ECF membership rule.Neil Graham wrote:Yorkshire have conceded their U-180 match to Essex by default. Obviously the £100 fine has had little effect; Yorkshire conceded at the same stage of the competition last year (to Kent).
No results will be overturned because of ECF membership infringements - this year there is no points penalty for playing an unregistered player, the penalty is £10 per player who is not a member. According to the Essex website, Yorkshire's Under 180 captain resigned because of a clash with his commitments to junior training and they were unable to raise a team.Jonathan Rogers wrote:Alex's belief that applying disproportionate penalties will concentrate minds (and player availability) for the better is unshakeable, notwithstanding the evidence to the contrary. We can only hope that of the matches that do go ahead, this year none of the results will be overturned afterwards by virtue of an inadvertent infringement of the ECF membership rule.Neil Graham wrote:Yorkshire have conceded their U-180 match to Essex by default. Obviously the £100 fine has had little effect; Yorkshire conceded at the same stage of the competition last year (to Kent).
Wouldn't this clash of commitments have been known at the time that the nomination was accepted? The date of the quarter finals certainly would have been.Neil Graham wrote:According to the Essex website, Yorkshire's Under 180 captain resigned because of a clash with his commitments to junior training and they were unable to raise a team.
So it's another Leics-Notts match (third time this season). Notts beat Manchester (Notts also won the U120 match v Lancs held at the same venue in Newcastle).Sean Hewitt wrote:In the minor counties, Leicestershire beat Sussex by 8.5 - 7.5
Something of a classic day; arrived at Bushey at 12.30 for a 2.00 start, so went for a quick lunch at local hostelry. My colleague Paul said, Leicestershire won't be all that strong will they, it's not a very big county? So I replied, yes but they won the county championship about 25 years ago - when they had Hebden playing.Sean Hewitt wrote:In the minor counties, Leicestershire beat Sussex by 8.5 - 7.5