"The BAFL are delighted to confirm Bedfordshire Blue Raiders, Leicester Falcons, Milton Keynes City Pathfinders and Tamworth Phoenix have been successful in their Associate membership and have been invited to apply for full membership of the BAFL."

full story here.

Great news for all of those teams and great news for the Cats!

2 of those teams are vitually on our doorstep and if put in our conference would reduce the travelling for our away games.

Congrats to all involved.

there is a 'chance' though that the cats will end up in the central conference.

expect a rant from someone in authority :lol:

That wouldn't be much of a surprise...

The flag team the Fen Harriers was always in the Northern Conference... It seemed to me that the people deciding the Divisions were worse at Geography than me!?

Having Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes in our Conference would be a right touch for me - both are less than half the distance from mine than to Cambridge... Giving me 2 away fixtures that are closer than the home games? Do you think BAFL will take that into consideration?

I seriously doubt it. Based upon discussions so far, we appear to be headed to the Central but that will not be confirmed until 12 Jan. Until then, everything is just speculation.

With that said, I am fighting not to go to Central as I have no desire to play against teams in that direction!

Watch this space!!