Fake grass in the walls; very odd design choice! I wish they'd spent the money on extra staff for the bar!Alex Holowczak wrote:We held a Junior 4NCL weekend there this past weekend.MatthewParry wrote:Apparently Wokefield Park is under new management. It will be interesting to see if this changes anything for the forthcoming season.
The change in decoration is noticeable. If you're a fan of artificial plants, wood furnishing, and a general parkland/woodland feel, then Wokefield Park is the hotel for you.
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The registrations for the 2017-18 season (apart from about half a dozen teams) are now on the website: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/registrations.htm
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Pairings for 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B now online: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/data/pairings_1718.htm
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In case any one is counting, this is the eighth consecutive year in which Guildford 1 and Barbican 2 start in the same group. Eight consecutive years!!
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How many years for Guildford 2 and Barbican 1 then?Jonathan Rogers wrote:In case any one is counting, this is the eighth consecutive year in which Guildford 1 and Barbican 2 start in the same group. Eight consecutive years!!
In my second year as Wood Green captain we are in a pool with seven different teams to those we faced last season albeit we did face our 2017-18 rounds 1, 3 and 5 opponents in rounds 9-11 in 2016-17.
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This will be "only" the seventh, since Guildford 2 were not in the first division at all in 2010/2011, while they were going through a brief recession. (Not suggesting that the success of their second team in any way depends on money! Goodness me, no!)LawrenceCooper wrote:How many years for Guildford 2 and Barbican 1 then?Jonathan Rogers wrote:In case any one is counting, this is the eighth consecutive year in which Guildford 1 and Barbican 2 start in the same group. Eight consecutive years!!
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Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL? Maybe (or maybe not) taking into account name changes.
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This is probably a good place to start looking: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.htmlChristopher Kreuzer wrote:Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL? Maybe (or maybe not) taking into account name changes.
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Some further info on name changes: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.htmlLawrenceCooper wrote:This is probably a good place to start looking: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.htmlChristopher Kreuzer wrote:Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL? Maybe (or maybe not) taking into account name changes.
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So hard to tell, with various name changes and, moreover, mergers. It could be BCM, starting in 1994/5, merging with Invicta Home House (already a merged team!) in 2000, then separating in 2002 and becoming the ADs.
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Barbican were there from the beginning, but took a break in the third season when the BCF tried to set up a rival league.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL?
The initial 6 from 1993-94 were
Invicta Knights Maidstone
Barbican
Covent Garden
Slough
North West Eagles
Bristol
Bristol (Bristol League) only recently stopped running a team in their own name.
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Thanks. I think you mean this link?LawrenceCooper wrote:Some further info on name changes: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.htmlLawrenceCooper wrote:This is probably a good place to start looking: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.htmlChristopher Kreuzer wrote:Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL? Maybe (or maybe not) taking into account name changes.
http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?htt ... F4ncl.html
Do those familiar with this think this is a complete list of name changes and mergers (well, the obvious ones).
Olimpbase doesn't seem to have been updated for the 4NCL beyond the 2014-15 season.
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What happened to Slough? North West Eagles seem to have been around for a long time. What happened to them?Roger de Coverly wrote:Barbican were there from the beginning, but took a break in the third season when the BCF tried to set up a rival league.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Which teams have been around the longest in the 4NCL?
The initial 6 from 1993-94 were
Invicta Knights Maidstone
Barbican
Covent Garden
Slough
North West Eagles
Bristol
Bristol (Bristol League) only recently stopped running a team in their own name.
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Ben Purton took over the management of the squad and renamed it first to Slough Sharks and then Sambuca Sharks. A merger with Grantham followed to create today's Grantham Sharks. He also uses the name "Sons of Anarchy" for the rapidplay squad (this year's winners)Christopher Kreuzer wrote: What happened to Slough?
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Looking from the outside, it seems more complicated than that. Ben was already running a team under the Slough banner but with a separate registration list from that of Nigel Johnson's first team, and it could be said that the original Slough team of 1993 ended when Nigel Johnson's team declined to re-eneter in 2005.Roger de Coverly wrote:Ben Purton took over the management of the squad and renamed it first to Slough Sharks and then Sambuca Sharks. A merger with Grantham followed to create today's Grantham Sharks. He also uses the name "Sons of Anarchy" for the rapidplay squad (this year's winners)Christopher Kreuzer wrote: What happened to Slough?
No doubt the point can be argued differently too; and I stress that I am just an outside observer here. But it is a further example of how difficult it is to trace the histories of teams over the year. For the record, I regard the Barbican team which re-entered in 1996 as a different entity from that which played between 1993-5; then arguably it became a different entity again in 1998 when it became its own club (Barbican 4NCL), quite distinct from the (then still continuing) London club.