Cardiff and west lake cats had 2 grades 3rds and ressies play, deemed fine. No further rain from then. Their first grade team hid under the shelter to a non raining day whilst tigers warmed up. Expect a forfeit of points to go to the tigers. Unreal behaviour. Never seen a team of 9 not want a game. President kitty cat made the call. Refs were happy to play but overruled. West lakes cats
sounds like a forfeit to meOriginally Posted by Vincent
Sounds like the trip back to Cardiff was a salty one.
Explain to me if the Refs called it off, it?s a forfeit? Don?t believe the rules work like that.
If you can read mate, you would see referees didn?t call it. The president / groundsman called it.
Massively salty, considering the year we have had with the weather, when you get a chance to play a fair game, you take it. Not call it off coz you have no players and 2 of 3 grades of been beaten. Poor form.
Forfeit loading..
Rains all night the night before the match. Rains during 3rds and reserves (of which our side had multiple back up).
A ground that was soft and slippery before a ball was kicked getting worse after heavy traffic and likely becoming hazardous.. unheard of.
If we were going to cancel because of low numbers we definitely would have done it before a ball was kicked but we pushed on as long as we could. During ressies it was becoming clear it was hard for players to stay on their feet (keeper unable to keep feet when kicking from hands).
It?s dissapointing not to get on especially having 2 games played before but this is pretty silly. If the game had gone on and players got injured I?d imagine the refs would?ve been copping it for playing in dangerous conditions.
Can?t please everyone I suppose.
Ah always 2 sides to a story
Vincent carrying on like a pork chop like usual
The game wasn’t played, not sure what the big deal is. Surely you’d rather play for 90 minutes instead of being given 3 points?
Every game in the comp was washed out today. Not the first time this season two grades played and then firsts got cancelled.
It's football, not s***er!!
Sorry Mosy, the ground was playable, no water, little bit of wear and tear, but in the end your Pres/groundsman was more concerned about trashing the ground than player safety..his words not mine.
I was there, I saw the condition and the ground was giving way underfoot in the goal mouths and heavily trafficked areas. If a 3rd game had been played it would have both been unsafe and caused further damage to the field. I have no doubts that both were a concern to our Pres when the call was made in conjunction with the refs.
At the end of the day a sensible decision was made even if not everyone agrees.
#Make3rdsGreatAgain
Can i ask theres more then 1 field out at westlakes was there any option to play on the other one, the juniors played therr today
Juniors were on it with last game kicking off at 2:30. Bottom ground got called off about 45mins before the top field got called off due to same season. The away teams from the juniors didn?t seem to have any issues.
Go jump on Cardiff Facebook page and make your own mind up.
Send those 3 points over
Looking forward to the midweek catchup.
Be sure to let us know when you?re available.
I have no doubt having that extra catchup compared to Cardiff will be tough on us but we will power through
If the referees deemed it safe & the club overruled, the association should, at minimum, sanction the club.
If refs deemed it safe, should have entered the pitch and blew whistle.
What if Cardiff and Westlakes just play a game for 90 minutes and decide who gets the 3 points.
It's football, not s***er!!
We tried to play, but they had their blokes hiding under a tin roof while the sun was out. We had one ginger fella go throw some spf50+ on. Then after game was called, they kids running around having a kick on the oval. Thinking back to it now, I Really hope they pulled through hazardous conditions
Good point
Says refs were happy to play which means the pitch was ok and game should have gone on.One team refuses to play/forfeit
My mate had a team playing all age at cardiff a couple of seasons ago. Said the club called off games if a dog pissed on the field. He said it was that bad, they left. Treated all age like 3rd class citizens.
Maybe, Don't throw stones from glass houses.
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