Thatto Heath Crusaders v Wigan St. Pats in the North West Men's League has been postponed this weekend. We at Thatto Heath have 9 of our NWML squad away at a wedding in Greece and contacted Pats a number of weks ago to alert them to this fact. It was our intention to use some of our Under 18s in the fixture initially but they have a massive winner takes all game to qualify for the play-offs with Halton Farnworth on Sunday. We are currently speaking to Pats about a date to re-arrange the game - possibly in a couple of weeks time in the midweek.
I was a bit annoyed that our lads didn't highlight this date as being an issue before the fixtures were issued as I could have asked for a free date on that day. As it happened I actually asked Matt Birkett to try to arrange our games against the other NCL second teams to match our NCL fixtures so we could play double headers of both the NCL and NWML games - something which he managed to do on this occasion.
The NCL fixture between THC and St.Pats is still taking place on Saturday with a 2.30pm kick off. I will post the date of the re-arranged game as soon as we agree it with St.Pats. I spoke with Kelly Barrett this morning and she was looking to arrange a game between St.Pats and Leigh East for this Saturday.