Saturday’s Northern Counties Muras Cup has been cancelled. This is the Men’s Northern Counties county games (was 24 man team, but revised this year to 12 a side).
A little bit of background first – Originally there were 4 counties due to play (Northumberland, Durham (Both had 2 entries) Yorkshire and Lancashire). The schedule had our teams starting in the afternoon and a potential final at 4:45pm.
However, Lancashire last week pulled due to being on early (9:30am) – although the schedule had been out for a few weeks; anyway the schedule was amended – but that put ourselves on at 9:30am, and also if we reached the final it would have meant we could be there from 9am to 7pm.
As a result of the re-schedule we made the decision to withdraw, as also some of our players had arrangements on Saturday am.
The Northern Counties executive will be looking at this when they next meet in the summer.