EIRL 2009

TRAINING REQUESTS SHOULD BE SENT TO TO BE CONFIRMED

Following a consultation exercise on proposed rule changes for the 2009 season, there have been several key changes to the Training Rules. Please ensure you are aware of them before submitting training.

Below are the training rules for the 2009 season. All rules are made wth the best interests of fair and even competition in mind.

Training orders are to be sent to the EIRL Training Commissioner as detailed above and must be received by them no later than 6pm (UK Time) two days prior to the team orders deadline for the next round of games. In most instances this will therefore be 6pm on a Wednesday.

At the discretion of the League President or Training Commissioner, this deadline may be extended or altered as necessary and if this is the case, an announcement to this effect will be made to the e-mail group and Telegraph blog.

REGULAR SEASON AND PLAY OFF TRAINING

The following rules shall apply to training during the course of the regular season and play-off series:

Teams may use a maximum of 10 training points during the course of the regular season and these will be awarded to all teams after the completion of League Round 1.
A record of the number of training points used will be kept by the Training Commissioner.
At a random point during the season, the League President shall award teams an extra ONE training point to use, in addition to the ten above to be used that week on a “use it or lose it” basis. Teams will still have to pay for the training.
There is no limit on the number of training points used in a week, as long as there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of the proposed training.
No training shall be permitted in the week prior to cup games, however, physiotherapy (see below) will be permitted for all teams involved in a cup game that week. Teams without a cup game will not be permitted to use physiotherapy (but will, by having a week off from games have the health of all players reduced by one week).
A player may be trained at any form level, however, upon training, the players form will be reset to 100.
Injured players who are specifically rested (see Team Orders rules) will receive a reduction in their health of 1 week.
No player with a health rating of 3 or more may be trained.
Physiotherapy may be used to treat players with a health rating of 3 or more.
Once a player has recovered to a health rating of 2 or less he may not be subject to physiotherapy.
Physiotherapy will be charged at £45,000 per point. There is no maximum to the amount of physiotherapy that can be applied in each week, however, only one point may be used per player. You may use physiotherapy in conjunction with resting a player.

TRAINING COSTS
FROM	TO	COST
1	2	£15,000
2	3	£15,000
3	4	£30,000
4	5	£45,000
PHYSIOTHERAPY		£45,000
5	6	£60,000
6	7	£75,000
7	8	£150,000
8	9	£250,000
9	10	£350,000

Please note: you may only use funds that are directly available to your team to pay for training or physiotherapy. In the event that you overspend, you will have the training refused and will incur a warning or training ban as detailed below.

FORMAT OF TRAINING ORDERS

Training Orders must carry the subject line : Training : <Team Name> and be sent to the training commissioner by the deadline stated above.

You MUST include the following information on your Training Orders:

Player Name
Training Type (attack, defence, kicking, goal kicking or temperament)
Previous Rating
Desired Rating
Cost of Training
In the event you are carrying out training on more than one player, or more than one type of training, you must also indicate at the end of your orders the TOTAL cost of training incurred that week.

Orders not sent in the correct format will be dealt with as detailed below.

INCORRECT TRAINING SUBMISSIONS

Penalties shall be imposed on coaches who submit an incorrect training request AND the entire training request will be declined.

In the event of continual breaches, the coach will be barred from the submission of training requests as outlined below.

Discretion may be shown, at the discretion of the Training Commissioner, for minor errors where such an error is easily identifiable and can be resolved quickly. In the event that clarification on such an issue is requested by the Training Commissioner and no response is received within 24 hours, the request will be declined. It is in your best interests to get things right from the start!

1st offence : warning
2nd offence : banned from training for ONE week
3rd offence : banned from training for TWO weeks
4th offence : banned from training for the remainder of the season (including play-offs).

In the event that a ban covers a cup week when a team would not be eligible to train, the ban will roll-over to the following week.

If you are unsure of any aspect of the training rules, or require further clarification, please ask the Training Commissioner.

UPDATED: 2 DECEMBER 2008