COMMON SENSE

Newport County v Bath City

The decision to move the Newport County v Wrecsam game to the evening of Friday 16th March (and possibly to Rodney Parade) to avoid an unnecessary clash with the Wales v France game on the Saturday shows what can be achieved with the application of a little commons sense and practical thinking. Its just a pity that some common sense cannot be exercised when it comes to arranging fixtures in the RaboDirect Pro12 – why on earth some of the Welsh regions ended up playing fixtures against Scottish sides, when Wales and Scotland were playing in Cardiff escapes me.

This is something that was raised by Rick O'Shea on the alternative commentary of the Glasgow v Scarlets game (which was played in Scotland) last Thursday evening, amongst others. Surely it should not be that difficult to plan it so that teams play corresponding fixtures with either Scottish, Irish or Italian sides in and around the Six Nations. When I buy my Newport County season ticket I get a complete list of fixtures from mid August to April, it is not like that with my Dragon season ticket - all you get a a couple of months of weekend focused date. It does to seem to be possible to produce a full fixture list for a league that contains twelve teams in advance - this has always struck me as odd, especially as this seems to be possible for almost every other sport (on the planet), some of who's leagues contain a great deal more than twelve teams.