{"id":17551,"date":"2026-07-23T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:15:04","slug":"week-18-preview-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=17551","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Bylet face Fields, <strong>Bayley aim to capitalise<\/strong><\/strong>, <strong>Burway host Wrockwardine <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bylet face the daunting task of hosting the Taylor Support Premier League Champions Castlefields in week 18. But they need to take heart that they got 6 winners when hosting the other title rivals Sir John Bayley last month, but the Fields will be looking for a response after their poorest result of the season last week at home to Adderley. The Bayley will look to capitalise on any slipup as they host Highley, but know the visitors are more than capable of picking up a few winners given their form this season, although they did lose at home to Woore last week. Burway host Wrockwardine Wood who know they are most likely going to finish in 3rd place this season again. The Ludlow side come off a blank week last week and will be wanting to hit the ground running again and look to climb up the table with their run of home games to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wem USC have a North Shropshire derby against Hanmer as they aim to return the result they got in the reverse leg. Captain Curtis Metcalfe says &#8220;after losing 11-3 earlier in the season on Hanmer we will be wanting to turn that result around. We have a tough set of fixtures in the second half of the season and if we still want to achieve a mid table finish it\u2019s games like this at home where we need to be picking up the points. We have struggled in recent weeks to pick up many points but we hope we can turn this around now and push on again.&#8221; Hanmer come off their best result of the season last week at home to Bylet and will be wanting to push on to start their climb up the table. St Georges are now below Hanmer after a run of 1 winner in 4 of their last 5 games but will hoping for much more when they host Ifton this week. However Ifton have dropped down to 5th after missing playing last week so will be eager to put a gap between themselves and the teams below to finish 4th again. Adderley host Meole Brace looking to overtake those two teams above while Meole are still looking at getting a top half finish, and have already had two away wins so far this season. Woore and Hanwood are separated by just 6 points as both teams look for a top 5 finish this season, Hanwood having done that in their debut season back in 2016, the highest of any team that has won a Play Off to get into the league. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Week 18 Fixtures:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bylet v Castlefields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John Bayley v Highley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burway v Wrockwardine Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wem USC v Hanmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St Georges v Ifton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adderley v Meole Brace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woore v Hanwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bylet face Fields, Bayley aim to capitalise, Burway host Wrockwardine Bylet face the daunting task of hosting the Taylor Support Premier League Champions Castlefields in week 18. But they need to take heart that they got 6 winners when hosting the other title rivals Sir John Bayley last month, but the Fields will be looking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[213,113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4z5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17552,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}