{"id":9037,"date":"2016-08-21T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2016-08-26T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:46:39","slug":"17-down-1-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=9037","title":{"rendered":"17 Down, 1 To Go..!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 17 rounds of League action so far, give or take the odd shower,\u00a0the final weekend\u00a0of Season 2016 is looming large&#8230;and what a weekend it could be for the Club!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>So, on Saturday (27th)\u00a0&#8211;<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the end of\u00a0only their first season in the SWCA, <strong>our &#8216;A&#8217; XI will clinch promotion from Division 7 to Division 6 if<\/strong> <strong>they defeat Neath at Murton!!<\/strong> Remarkably, it was apparently not raining at Margam Park yesterday(!) where the home side\u00a0defeated fellow promotion rivals Landore to nip into 2nd spot behind Ammanford. However, Margam have a bye on Saturday and only a\u00a0six point lead over MCC!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Our 2nd XI would finish outright runners-up in their Premier League Division if they<\/strong> <strong>amass more<\/strong> <strong>points than rivals Ynystawe<\/strong>. After yesterday&#8217;s home match v Port Talbot was unfortunately rained off, Port Talbot were confirmed as champions, leaving MCC and Ynystawe tied in 2nd spot! If that remains the case after next Saturday&#8217;s games, Stuart Seaton&#8217;s Men will pip Ynystawe as they have won more games. Our 2nd XI play Ammanford at Marespool, start 12.30pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 1st XI will be looking to consolidate their mid-table position when they travel to Ammanford.<\/strong> This time last year, our boys were facing the distinct possibility of relegation so this season&#8217;s campaign of consolidation in the Premier League&#8217;s 1st Division has been a definite improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong>THEN&#8230;on Bank Holiday Monday (29th)..<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 1st XI contest the rearranged Welsh Cup Final at Neath CC when they take on Penarth!!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the weather saw to it that today&#8217;s originally scheduled encounter had to be postponed, we could not ask for a more exciting finale to this season! The action kicks off at 1pm!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Good luck to all our players!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 17 rounds of League action so far, give or take the odd shower,\u00a0the final weekend\u00a0of Season 2016 is looming large&#8230;and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9063,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}