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Rules for Kent Metropolitan Leagues
Rules for Shepherd Neame
Kent Leagues

 

1          The League shall be known as Kent Metropolitan incorporating Invicta 3 West, Spitfire, Bishop’s Finger and Master Brew leagues.

 

2          The individual leagues are to comprise of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and other lower XV’s of clubs in the English Clubs’ Championships or teams from non-league clubs.

 

3          Clubs that are in Union with neighbouring Constituent Bodies may join the League, provided any such club is an affiliated member of the Kent County Rugby Football Union.             

4          The League organizing committee will be elected annually at the League AGM and is to comprise of a Chairman, Secretary, Results’ Co-ordinator and Treasurer together with three (3) committee members.

The County’s Group Representative shall also be invited to serve on the committee.

 

            4-1       The full committee shall meet regularly, as and when required.

 

            4-2       If circumstances so justify, a quorum for the Kent Metropolitan League’s  day to day business may be achieved at any one time by a minimum of three (3) elected committee members of which two (2) are elected officers, whilst one (1) is to be a member clubs’ representative.

 

5          League matches are to be played on a Home and Away basis in each season.  A league structured playing season detailing fixtures and playing dates will be provided to each member club prior to commencement of each season.  Such structured season is also displayed on the Kent Metropolitan League web site.

 

5-1       Any deviation from the structured playing season that has been agreed between respective clubs is to be advised to and ratified by the League Results’ Co-ordinator by September 1 in each season.

 

6          All member clubs are required to submit their Fixture List/s to the League Results’

 Co-ordinator on or before September 1 in each season.

 

7          If fixtures are not played on the scheduled date, or on any mutually agreed alternative date, and if the reason offered is not considered acceptable in the opinion of the Kent Metropolitan League Committee, the defaulting team will be deemed to have lost the game.

 

7-1       All league matches, including agreed postponed games, are to be played by April 30 each year.  Games not played by such date shall be declared void.     

 

7-2       The Kent Metropolitan League committee reserves the right to re-align any team within a given league structure during the course of any season.                   

 

8          Both clubs MUST report results either direct via the link on the KENT METROPOLITAN LEAGUE WEB SITE at www.kentmetropolitanrugby.co.uk alternatively accessed through the competitions’ link on the County’s web site www.kentyrugby.org or by telephone to the Results’ Co-ordinator, Clive Putner, on 020 8650 0211 by 1900 hours on the Monday immediately following the game.  

 

8-1       The Kent Metropolitan League web site will be regularly updated throughout the league season with results together and individual league tables.

 

9          The scoring system will be four (4) points for a win, three (3) points for a draw, one (1) point for playing and nil (0) points for default (e.g. walk-over).

 

9-1       One (1) bonus point would additionally be awarded to a losing team if the final score line is within seven (7) points or less.

 

9-2       Regardless of the final score in any league game, the widest points’ differential that would be entered for league table purposes is forty (40) points.                       

9-3       Any member club that call-off a league fixture renders the opposing team forty (40) score points and scores nil (0) points themselves.

 

10        An annual fee of £20-00 (twenty pounds only) is to be paid by member clubs for each team entered into the Kent Metropolitan League competition.  Any such fee shall be accepted at the level of £15-00 (fifteen pounds only) per team provided such total payment is received by the Kent Metropolitan League Honorary Treasurer, Terry Kirk, at 103, Avenue Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 3AT no later than NOVEMBER 30 in each season.

Cheques are to be drawn to the order of KCRFU Kent Metropolitan League.

 

11        Use of replacements:

 

11-1     Replacements will be a maximum of three (3) from three (3).  It is RECOMMENDED that if one team has less than fifteen players and the opposing team has replacements, the replacements be encouraged to play for the opposition.

11-2     If a front row player retires injured and there is no competent replacement the game will go to uncontested scrums, and the final result will stand.  Refer front row replacement formula (APPENDIX A) or follow the link on the Kent Metropolitan League web site for details. (Metropolitan Leagues - Scrum rulings - follow link.)

 

11-3     If a team has less than fifteen players and the opposition a full team plus replacements, no replacement player may take the field for the team with the full complement of players.      

 

11-4     If one team has more than the maximum of three (3) replacements, in exceptional circumstances only and in the spirit of the Shepherd Neame Kent

 

Leagues’ competition to fulfil the fixture, the respective captains may agree to play  

the match with that one team using more than the usual maximum of three replacements.  Said agreement must be secured before kick-off in each and every situation and reported to the Results’ Co-ordinator when confirming the result.  

 

11-4-1  If more than the standard three (3) replacements were used by a team under such agreement and that particular team won the game, the result would nevertheless be deemed a draw and recorded in the relevant league table accordingly.

 

12        Any team that withdraws from the League at its own volition will have ALL awarded points and results of games played regarded as void and deleted from the respective league table. 

 

13        Any team that does not fulfil twenty five per cent (25%) of its scheduled league fixtures, and at the Kent Metropolitan League Committee’s discretion, may be withdrawn from the Kent Metropolitan League and have ALL awarded points and results of games played regarded as void and deleted from the relevant league table.

 

14        All disputes or grievances are to be notified in the first instance by LETTER or EMAIL to the Kent Metropolitan League Honorary Secretary, John Arger, at 15, Thatcher Road, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0ND or argerjm@aol.com by mid-night at the latest of the Friday immediately following the fixture.

 

14-1     If, and in the opinion of the Kent Metropolitan League Committee, any member club has acted in direct infringement and disregard of the spirit and ethos of the Shepherd Neame Kent Leagues’ competition, including either having fielded a truly unrepresentative team consisting of players not normally expected to play for such team and level or field players normally of a higher skill level, the competition points would be awarded to the opposing side with a nominal score of fifteen points to nil (15-0).  If in such instance the opposition won the game, the result would stand, but the offending team would be deducted two (2) competition points.              

 

14-1-2  Such penalties are not exhaustive.  Further sanctions or points deduction may be imposed upon any team that, in the view of the Kent Metropolitan League Committee, had transgressed the spirit or letter of the Shepherd Neame Kent Leagues’ competition.

 

15        Decisions made by the Kent Metropolitan League Committee may be referred to the Chairman of the KCRFU Competitions’ Sub-committee.  All such appeals are to be received WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS (14 days) of receiving the decision from the Kent Metropolitan League.

 

16        Presentation of trophies will be made to the winning clubs at the end of each season.  Plaques for the winners and runners-up in each league would be paid for and provided by the Kent County Rugby Football Union. 

 

 

 

 

 

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