The eagerly awaited start of the second half of the season was disrupted by a stiff frost following on a snowy week casing the bulk of the matches on grass to be called off by frozen pitches. A new pair of domestic cup competitions (the Geoff Garnett Cup ) for teams in the Premier division and Division One and Two and (the Keith Marsden Cup ) for teams in Divisions Three, A and B were set for inaugural preliminary rounds. Only two games in the Geoff Garnett Cup were able to g