SEVERAL clubs must send their umpires to away matches tomorrow (the final weekend for Conference fixtures) as umpires secretary Ron Tindall is again short on numbers.
League chairman Roger France says 26 clubs have done very well in supplying home umpires for Second XI fixtures, adding that four clubs have failed to provide an official.
Any team failing to supply a home umpire for Second XI games next season will be fined.
Anyone wanting to help out in the on-going umpiring crisis should contact Tindall, who also reported that another instruction course will be run again next February, at Broad Oak.
Clubs who need to take an umpire with them for the Second XI games tomorrow are: Broad Oak at Delph, Shelley at Micklehurst, Meltham at Slaithwaite, Elland at Thongsbridge, Hall Bower at Kirkburton, Primrose Hill at Lepton and Armitage Bridge at Marsden.
The curtain falls on the Inter-Conference games tomorrow, and with the titles already decided, plus Broad Oak’s play-off spot confirmed, main interest concerns who they will face from the Cedar Court Conference, with Clayton West and Marsden both hoping to be runners-up.
Teams are reminded that games start at 12.30, except in the Second XI Inter-Conference which are still at 1.00.
