QUICK ON THE DRAW
WHAT
a series of results in the National Conference League on
Saturday!
It didn’t particularly seem to mean much when the NCL announced, recently, that it was ditching the concept of golden point, although it certainly pleased me. I don’t see anything wrong with draws. Life itself is often a draw in truth (in fact a draw would be a dream outcome for many folk these days in an increasingly troubled world) and there’s nothing wrong to my mind in teams finishing all square – in fact it’s often a shame when one side has to lose a thriller through the lottery that is field goals or apparently controversial refereeing decisions.
The NCL’s decision meant a lot at the weekend, when three games finished level. Two, almost incredibly, were in the Premier Division, where last season’s Grand Finalists Thatto Heath Crusaders and Wath Brow Hornets battled out an 8-8 thriller and York Acorn and West Hull closed at 10-10.
Thatto, Wests and Hornets occupy, this morning, the top three slots, while the competitive nature of the NCL’s top flight is illustrated by the fact that Acorn garnered their first point of the campaign by tying with the Green & Golds. What a season we could be in for, at all levels, with Leigh East’s draw with Bentley in Division Three suggesting that the bottom tier could also be closely fought.