John Slavin Award 2012

BAFRA awards the John Slavin Trophy in even-numbered years to the team with the best marked field. This includes correct field dimensions, correct line and other markings, correct size goal posts, correct positioning of pylons and the condition of the field surface. 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 48.37. Within this, the Premier teams averaged 36.03, the Division One teams 48.68 and the Division Two teams 53.02

The top-performing teams in the BAFANL 2012 season were as follows:

Cambridgeshire Cats 0.0 Division One and overall winners Berkshire Renegades 1.5 Bedfordshire Blue Raiders 3.0 Division Two winners Ipswich Cardinals 10.0 Premier Division winners Clyde Valley Blackhawks 10.2 Sheffield Predators 13.6 Tamworth Phoenix 15.0 Nottingham Caesars 16.2 DC Presidents 16.4 Yorkshire Rams 17.2 Doncaster Mustangs 19.0 London Olympians 20.0 West Coast Trojans 23.8 East Kilbride Pirates 25.0 Crewe Railroaders 27.6 Hampshire Thrashers 29.6 Lancashire Wolverines 30.8 Oxford Saints 30.8 Sussex Thunder 31.2 Bristol Aztecs 34.0 South Wales Warriors 34.0

An award was also made for junior football where the average score was 60.79.

The top performing teams were as follows:

Cambridgeshire Cats 0.0 Nottingham Caesars 12.7 Lanarkshire Longhorns 20.0 Lancashire Wolverines 21.0 Tamworth Phoenix 22.5 33.3 Hampshire Thrashers 35.7 Farnham Knights 41.5 London Blitz 43.0 Colchester Gladiators 49.3