John Slavin Award 2011

BAFRA awards the John Slavin Trophy in odd-numbered years to the team with the best game management. This includes timely provision of appropriate chain crew and ball boys, provisions for spectators and spectator facilities and the provision of game balls in good condition. The title is awarded to the team that has comes out best in an audit carried out by BAFRA members at each game. A perfect facility scores 0.

The award is named after John Slavin. John was a long-serving BAFRA official and sometime director of the Association who sadly died in October 2005. In his memory, BAFRA has dedicated an award made to a team that shows commitment to improving the game experience for players and fans, as well as officials.

Overall in the BAFANL Senior Season, all teams averaged 66.0. Within this, the Premier teams averaged 77.1, the Division One teams 55.2 and the Division Two teams 71.5

The top-performing teams in the BAFANL 2011 season were as follows:

Colchester Gladiators 21.4 Division One and overall winners Wolves 22.4 Division Two winners Sussex Thunder 22.5 Cambridgeshire Cats 23.4 Doncaster Mustangs 25.6 Lancashire Wolverines 27.8 Nottingham Caesars 28.7 Tamworth Phoenix 35.0 Premier Division winners Kent Exiles 37.0 London Blitz 37.8 East Kilbride Pirates 38.5 Yorkshire Rams 45.0 Leicester Falcons 45.8 West Coast Trojans 47.0 Dundee Hurricanes 47.4 Lincolnshire Bombers 47.8 South Wales Warriors 48.0 Ipswich Cardinals 49.4 Titans 50.5 Essex Spartans 51.5

An award was also made for Junior football where the average score was 65.7. The top performing teams here were:

Colchester Gladiators 20.5 Nottingham Caesars 29.0 Lancashire Wolverines 29.7 Tamworth Phoenix 30.7 Kent Exiles 31.8 Cambridgeshire Cats 36.8 London Blitz 40.0 Peterborough Saxons 47.0 Leicester Falcons 49.5 Inverclyde Phoenix 52.0