Paul, do you know when the “rule” may come into effect? As in, compulsory? Or should it be in 2012 but it's up to each league to decide whether to act upon the rule (much like the new scoring system, not all leagues did used it straight away. I know of one league that only started using it last season!).

I understand what you mean about schools and sports centres not rushing to get new posts, and I wouldn't be surprised in the current situation we are in at the moment, but I was just trying to find out more about it. More information, if there is any and what information people know. The information I have been given is very vague as I am not a member of the committee or anything.

Thanks Paul, certainly food for thought. I will have a look and see if I can find the advert out of interest.

I am guessing that at the County level and high end tournaments might enforce such a rule, but again, as you said, if they didn’t it is unlikely that anything would come about from it.