The Joys of Spring

No not spring league ..

Aml looks like it will have another drop after forever silent failed to schedule and then show for the game today. Expected? kinda. AMl has always been the league for pre season drop outs and nothing will change this season. With a high turn around of teams there will always be a level of unstableness, that the other leagues tend not to have.

Ways to lessen this are few and far between, resurrecting Spring league has been mooted about often, but no squad can keep its players happy playing "organised pracs" every week.
Another way is too have static divisions with good player tracking, and then promotion and relegation between divisons. But again this hampers new squads who have to start at the bottom of the leagues and if they recruit a lot of top talent its a long and very boring road for all concerned!

Mizerie's attempts too make AMl more newbie friendly are well founded but in reality are nearly impossible to implement. AML is the home of the squads who dont crave any kind of commitment.
90% of teams are just happy to play together, prac sometimes in the week and then have 1-2 hours of competitiveness at the weekend. Forcing whole squads or individual players to move up will just force them into retirement if they dont want this level of commitment. For a league without much new talent entering the front door, this is a doomsday scenario with no happy ending.

I have played IML for 2 seasons and Pro for 8 weeks both were good experiences but allthough i found pro to br easier than IML where the intensity is high every week, rather than with pro where it is only high in the playoffs, because the same teams make playoffs every season.
I wouldnt want too be forced into praccing every day. It is hard enough to get people to prac anymore after 9 years of existence let alone to do it every day!

many things change is Premier but 1 thing stays the same for a majority of people, it is just the chamaraderie that keeps them coming back, without that maybe they wont come back anymore