Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:22 am  

Sounds a great idea. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... eparation/

Sounds a great idea. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... eparation/

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:29 am  

Sounds a good idea doesn’t it. It also says we are playing York at home on Boxing Day and then the Yorkshire cup kicks off Jan 5-6.

This sounds like the sort of pre-season we need. Games against the types of sides we will actually face in the league.

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:35 am  

Batley,Halifax,Dewsbury, Featherstone,Bradford,Hunslet,York and Keighley. These are all the club's taking part.

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:42 am  

Sounds like a decent little pre-season money spinner and a good way to get people watching pre-season games too

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:47 am  

What happens if you lose your 1st game? Have the losing clubs got some sort of agreement to play one another so it maintains a pre season schedule?

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:15 am  

Great idea! Looking forward to the whole event. I hope some of the games don't clash so I can get to some other Yorkshire Cup games.

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:18 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

What happens if you lose your 1st game? Have the losing clubs got some sort of agreement to play one another so it maintains a pre season schedule?

presumably only first round of games are actually set in stone and the teams knocked out after each round then schedule friendlies against each other.

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:13 pm  

mat wrote:

presumably only first round of games are actually set in stone and the teams knocked out after each round then schedule friendlies against each other.

As I posted, that would be logical and fine as long as all parties stick to it. The idea looks a good one and should add some interest. Why not play some of the games at the same venue to save costs? The whole concept relies on every game being played without postponed matches due to cold weather etc.

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:51 pm  

Possibly a round robin competition rather than a straight knock-out competition?

Or maybe the knocked out clubs arrange to play each other

Re: Pre Season Yorkshire Cup : Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:53 pm  

I'm sure they'll have something in place for all the various "what ifs". The main thing is it's a cracking idea that seems to have excited fans of all the club's involved. Well done to the various Chairmen who've devised this.
With the boxing day York game, at least one game in this competition (musnt be seen to be arrogant) the Transatlantic cup game with Toronto, and presumably the Joe Phillips game with Keighley, pre season is looking a lot more structured and meaningful.