October 20, 20196 yr It seems there was a rule regarding speaking English but it was taken out again following legal advice. This is from chairman of league
March 17, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, superjohnmcginlay said: Season delayed for GMCL Was just thinking about this earlier. Surely it will come in for all cricket.
March 17, 20206 yr Author 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Was just thinking about this earlier. Surely it will come in for all cricket. Yes, had a glimmer of hope cricket would dodge it but alas no.
April 8, 20206 yr Heaton and one other Bolton team (maybe Golborne) resigned for GMCL. Greenmount resigned from GMCL to join Lancashire League.
April 8, 20206 yr As Micky said, Heaton and Golborne are leaving. Not arsed about Golborne, real shame about Heaton though. I liked playing there.
April 8, 20206 yr Where are the old central lancs teams playing these days Likes of Radcliffe, Rochdale, Heywood, littleborough Are they all GM
April 12, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, Horwich said: No loss Unfortunately it now means BCL will be back to one league, so no promotion or relegation. Clubs like Little Lever will be delighted though
April 12, 20206 yr The league was fine for years without it. Aim for the top and improve your club, rather than avoiding relegation. it can easily be done with little player investment and a good junior section. Thats been proven
April 12, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, Horwich said: The league was fine for years without it. Aim for the top and improve your club, rather than avoiding relegation. it can easily be done with little player investment and a good junior section. Thats been proven Of course, that goes without saying. There are established BCL clubs who would rather just throw money at players though rather than investing in youth development. Let's not kid ourselves though, so many noses were put out of joint when Association clubs joined, especially when this resulted in BCL clubs playing in the lower tier. Ultimately they were playing in the lower tier because that's where they deserved to be but the snobbery around cricket wouldn't accept that.
April 12, 20206 yr Author On 08/04/2020 at 22:51, Casino said: Where are the old central lancs teams playing these days Likes of Radcliffe, Rochdale, Heywood, littleborough Are they all GM Littleborough and Rochdale are Lancashire League. Ourselves and Radcliffe are GMCL.
April 12, 20206 yr Cant be sure Is heywood the one next to the water Played there one sunday morning and it was hell with bugs
April 13, 20206 yr Author We have the lake at Queens Park at the bottom of the ground, midge central.
April 13, 20206 yr Heywood will probably not agree, but the GMCL can’t have been good for them? Edited April 13, 20206 yr by Horwich
April 13, 20206 yr Author We had an emergency meeting last season to discuss the possibility of moving to the Lancashire League. Players voted against it mainly because of the Sunday cricket element. Being a founder member the board also were keen to see it through. We have had quite a high turnover of players throughout my time there and this has been unsettled which has resulted in indifferent seasons. I know some of the longer serving players do miss the rivalry of the CLL especially against Middleton, Rochdale, Norden and Walsden to name a few. One a positive slant they have enjoyed the cricket whilst in the Premier and it’s been a decent if not a very good standard. I don’t think its gone as planned upto now. Personally and from a second team perspective I’ve enjoyed playing at new grounds and against new opposition having played for Daisy and Heywood in the CLL. However the geographical split for the leagues has really been frustrating for me the last couple of seasons. We’ve been placed against more Dukinfield, Glossop Hyde areas and it certainly hasn’t helped. Last year we played Oldham and we payed against 9 men and then a couple of weeks after we played Saddleworth who had removed the 2nd x1 so we faced a first team and got an absolute smashing over the two games they were far too good for the division. We have Other clubs in better localities we could be playing. Don’t get me wrong we want to play against first teams, but there are that many alterations to clubs and ever revolving influx and exodus of clubs it’s difficult. We were only In the division we were in last year because a team dropped out after winning the division, Moorside or Heyside or similar think it was and we got promoted by default which we were not ready for really. it needs a long long time to settle. if it ever will.
June 22, 20206 yr Author GMCL proposed start date 25th July, localised games. Not sure of format yet but feelers sent out to clubs to canvass players to see how many would be interested in playing.
June 22, 20206 yr Surely it would be dependent on bars being allowed to open. What would be the point of getting a game on when you have no way of making an income?
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