FOUR Huddersfield Central League clubs have applied to join the Spenser Wilson Halifax League for the 2017 season.

They are Birchencliffe, Leymoor, Mount and Bradley & Colnebridge, and the quartet all made presentations to the league's last meeting at Pellon Social Club.

Halifax League chairman Anthony Briggs said: "The executive would like to make the unusual step of encouraging your support for all of these applications for many reasons.

"Birchencliffe, Leymoor and Mount expressed a keen interest in joining the Halifax League from the outset and resigned from their own league and applied directly to the league before the YCB deadline of June 30.

"Bradley & Colnebridge contacted the league after the collapse of the incorporation proposal (with the Huddersfield Central League and have made it clear they would prefer to move to Halifax (rather than the Huddersfield Drakes League).

"They only have one team currently but they have three junior teams at under-nines, 11s and 13s and are introducing an under-15s next year, and are working actively towards establishing a second team.

"One proposal the executive are considering is operating Greetland as a one-team club (as they did in 2016) playing first XI fixtures, and Bradley & Colnebridge playing the corresponding second-team fixtures but as two separate entities.

"Another option is to say have 12 teams in the lowest division at first-team level and ten teams at second-team level.

"All of these clubs are located less than ten miles away from Halifax town centre and all have passed our ground assessment and application procedure."