Having not sat down since the 2010 Grand Finals, and that the 2011 season won't organise itself, I've been attempting to work out how next seasons calendar will work out.
Due to the fact that we should end up with even more teams than the 2010 season, it will be likely that we see 16 teams qualify for play-offs, having a Last 16 Round reducing the number to 8 teams and then a Last 8 Round reducing the number down to 4 teams for the Grand Finals itself.
As these play-offs are likely to need the bulk of September to get played, we would be looking at having the Grand Finals on Sunday 2nd October 2011. This will also mean that we need to get started a few weeks earlier and therefore if we aim to have the season start on Sunday 6th March 2011, teams will have 27 weeks to get their group fixtures completed (this being 3 weeks more than the 2010 season and will hopefully(?) prevent 'cramming' of matches into the last few weeks).
So there you have it, 20 weeks notice till the Leagues starting weekend on Sunday 6th March 2011.............more than enough time for you all to get sorted!!
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