this whole state titles concept is crap.
Should just call it a Pre Season cup and leave it at that.
How can you be judged as the "best team in the state" if this will be the first games some teams are playing. Its so stupid.
Ive been campaigning for years for FNSW to book out venues and get all clubs to play sanctioned club trial games rather than this stupid state title pre season concept.
Put clubs in 3 Pools and pull clubs out of a hat.
Would be cool to see.
Maybe Pool 1 top 7 PL clubs, Pool 2, New PL club + top 6 from SL then the rest in pool 3.
Pool 1 vs Pool 2 and Pool 3 vs each other.
Run this the 2 weeks prior to the season starting.
FNSW Need a way to avoid forfeits and see how many players club have registered? Well this would be the easy way. If you dont have minimum 6 players per team THEN YOU CAN NOT ENTER the league.
Both clubs can split the costs of court hire and referees and pay FNSW for the expenses.
The referee hierachy could use these trial games as trials for the respective referees.
Then play a double header in round 3 sat/sunday and play state titles in that extra week.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Not that hard really.