Fixture Nightmare!!

Could the world's smallest violin please start playing for the fixture secretary!? Having a bit of a nightmare this time round boy's. As I have mentioned to many of you we received a kind offer from Thoresby Colliery CC for use of their pitch for 2010 season. For me, the facilities are far better than Clipstone and whilst Clipstone have been very good to us it was too good an offer to turn down. Sadly, the majority of teams we play have their own pitch and are looking for fixtures sometimes as early as October!!! We on the other hand don't know when we can play at home until February time and even that is subject to cup draws. Hence a dilemma. Accept away fixtures and risk them falling dates that we could have played at home? Turn them down or "postpone" a decision until we have our home dates and risk having no games because everybody else is sorted? This year I have tried to do a bit of both and it has worked up to a point but I fancy we are still going to suffer a little fixture congestion. I strive to ensure that we never play back to back matches and try to keep it at two Sunday's a month as the majority of you have said that suits. Add that to the issue of getting fixtures against the right kind of teams (i.e. teams that aren't full Saturday 1st XI's looking to boost their ego by pummeling us into the floor) and the field is narrower than you might think. I suppose the moral of this bid for sympathy is for you all to be as understanding as possible when I have the finished fixture list because indications at the moment are that a few back to back weeks and a bit of driving are going to be inevitable..........but I'm doing my best!!!