Kent Metropolitan League

KENT Metropolital Leagues

Welcome to the Kent Metropolitan League website.

The KentMet League was set up initially for the 1997/1998 season. It was the natural development, following the success the previous season of the East Kent Leagues that was created by John Carley.

There are five league tables drawn from the junior sides of the rugby clubs in the North West area of Kent, and the South East quadrant of London. Some 30 clubs are involved in providing 50 teams that are evenly spread over the five leagues. In recognition of the main County sponsors for Kent RFU, Shepherd Neame Limited, three of our five leagues have been named after one of the brewer's ales, and so we have the following leagues, Premier, Bishops Finger, Conference and Master Brew. Late Red no longer runs due to restructuring the leagues this year and the development of the Invicta Leagues.

The main aim is to encourage the playing of meaningful rugby at the senior level, by providing, as full as possible, a fixture list for the season at the appropriate level, and with the minimum of traveling. Automatic promotion and relegation does not occur, but at the end of the each season, amendments are made depending upon a team’s performance. Ultimately, we are trying to provide 30 plus players the chance to enjoy themselves each Saturday, and indirectly, by having a full workable Fixture List for the season, helping the clubs financially.


2010
10^th Mar		The latest results and tables are now posted. There seems to be a certain degree of apathy creeping in, for as you will see from the Latest Results page, there were 9 games out of 24 c/o. I hope it is just the aftermath of the bad weather we have been having, and it just needs some sunshine to improve things. Clive
5^th Mar		Only four matches were reported to me that were played last week and they have been entered into the tables. Hopefully, it will be a little drier and none of that “white stuff” will be around. Clive
25^th Feb		The last result is just in and all last week’s scores are now posted along with the tables. A little reminder, that if you play any rearrange games this weekend, please let me know the result. Clive
18^th Feb		The results are now in and have been posted along with the tables. Clive.
12^th Feb		I’ve only been informed of 10 League games being played last Saturday, and they can been seen on the Latest Results page. The tables have also been updated. Clive
4^th Feb		The results and tables are now posted as I’ve just received the last result. This weekend some of you will be playing rearranged games, so please do not forget to let me know the result. Clive
28^th Jan		The results are now all in and they have been posted along with the current tables. Please remember to update me if you play any of your p/p games. Clive
22^nd Jan		We managed to get in 7 games out of a possible 25 last weekend. I waited until today, in case there were any other results to come in, before I put them on to the web-site. Hopefully, you will be able to rearrange the outstanding games later in the season, but if you can not please do not worry too much about it. Clive
2009
23^rd Dec		Well that was a good start for the second half of the season with every game called off. Let us hope that the New Year will bring better weather so that we can play rugby. The Committee would like to wish everyone associated with Kentmet a Happy Christmas and a Successful and Healthy New Year. Clive
16^th Dec		Last week’s results and the tables have now been posted. Any outstanding games can still be played and will be entered when they are reported to me. Out of interest, can anyone explain to me how a team that up until last week had only won 1 game, and had c/o its’ 2 previous games, puts nearly 60 points on a team that is third in the league? It is like Wolves putting 9 past Arsenal. There is me trying to achieve an evenly balanced league system and then this happens. They could say “well we had a game of rugby”. Not if you are on the losing side. I expect this type of result to occur in the lower leagues between certain teams but it should not have happened in this particular game. I hope they achieved some satisfaction in winning. Clive
15^th Dec		There have not been any major repercussions from the proposed re-alignments (touch wood), so I have now up dated the forth coming fixtures until the end of the season. Clive
10^th Dec		The latest results and tables have now been posted. Please remember that any postponed games can be played after Christmas, but don’t forget to tell me the result please. Clive
3^rd Dec		Last Saturday’s results are now posted along with the tables. As far as I can ascertain there were only 3 games played the previous week that were postponed games. If there were more would you please let me know? As was mentioned at the AGM that there might be some changes at the half way point, well the Committee have agreed to make some. In essence, there are a couple of teams that are too strong for their current league they are in. On the other hand there are teams that are struggling, plus we have had requests from some clubs wanting to feed in new teams. The following changes have been made and every effort has been made to cause the minimum of disruption. No doubt there will be a couple, but hopefully they can be overcome. I must first apologize though to our 2 Refs Soc. as this will also affect them. The commencement of this will be on the 19^th December, and if you have any outstanding games from the fist half they can still be played and will be entered into the original leagues. Those of you that worry about receiving awards, we will be doubling up the awards this season. Firstly promotions; Southwark Lancers I will move up into the Premier League Sidcup IV and Met Police I will both move up to the Bishop Finger League Darenth Valley I, Orpington II, and Southwark Lancers II move to the Conference League. Other changes; Brockleians III will become Brockleians II and will move to the Master Brew League. Greenwich II has withdrawn and are currently replaced by Met Police II. (The name change will take place on the 19^th ). Alterations; Southwark Lancers I will take the Free Weeks in Premier League. Sidcup IV will take the Brockleians II fixtures. Met Polce I will take the Southwark Lancers I fixtures. Darenth Valley I will take the Sidcup IV fixtures. Orpington II will take the Met Police I fixtures. Southwark Lancers II will take the Brockleians II fixtures. Southwark Lancers III will replace Southwark Lancers II. Orpington III will replace Orpington II. Brockleians II will take the Darenth Valley fixtures. I will be sending out to the Fix/Sec. an up dated fixture lists. Hopefully this will help reduce the number of c/o but I am aware that several clubs still have problems with injuries, especially in the front row area. I know it will be manic for the next week and my telephone will be ringing like mad. With a little patience it should all work out and we should all benefit. Clive (fingers crossed!!!)