I kinda half ass agree with u that the attention should be solely on promotion for the lower division teams. We ended up playing 9games in 3 weeks to see who gets to play in the B cup. Cost us a league promotion as we ended up having to play guys that had no right to play because of muscle pulls groin injuries etc. Shaheen had the same and eventually pulled out of the provincial cup.LOL, and that's the issue. The B cup is a nice tournament, but that's all it is. At least the A Cup has some serious prestige and prize at the end.
All the B cup winners get is a trophy that says they were the best in the province at a level that competes under the 1st and Premier divisions. Some will take it seriously, some will not, whereas everyone puts everything into the A Cup.
What is wrong with opening up the Imperial and Pak Cups (and whatever the Island has) to every team? Have it a mandatory Cup for P & 1st teams, but all others can enter? I recall it used to be that way, at least with the FVSL, where the 1st and 2nd div teams would compete in the preliminary round, then meet up in a draw vs. Premier squads in the 1st round? My memory is not serving me well on that....
I dunno...too much attention on lower level cups, where Promotion should be the goal.
Lol. I'm not too sure either. Lol. But as I said it was campo that used an illegal player last year named Edson as he too was signed and was the leading goal scorer and like this years illegal player played on a fvsl div 4 team. Campo only got up to div 1 in a really weird way as there was a rule missing 6.3 when they had the meeting to see what they were doing with the bottom prem team when Surrey left. They ended up sending two teams down and had a vacancy left by Surrey leaving. Then amazingly the rule 6.3 re appeared and unlike the promotion ruling if there is no time to have a playoff game it is the winner head to head between the two teams. Not only did norvan prem team being the second to bottom have to go down but the norvan div 2 team got screwed as well. They lost out on goal difference as this was the ruling they came up with and the vmsl says they forgot to change it.I do like that they fixed the format and timing to align it with the other cups. That makes it more ligitamate as a championship.
And, you can't take away the amount of work it took to get there. Besides, last year's champ went on to win Promotion to Premier, that alone validates it.
Not sure where I'm going with this except to say I didn't mean to belittle it or the players, if that's what I did.