Quote Originally Posted by THEBIGCHEESE View Post
I agree it’s not ideal to cancel games just prior to kick off but ultimately the officials have the final say no matter how much protesting made by either side.

Pretty confident that if the game went ahead the comments on here would be flipped to shouldn’t of played, ball didn’t roll, heavy under foot, players siding in with dangerous tackles.

Wasn’t Chapman Oval for games/training over the last two days? Probably not.
there were some photos posted of the reserve grade game on Facebook, yesterday and it showed definite puddles etc. So looking at that casual water on the pitch it could be deemed dangerous and should have been called off.
Maybe the way it was done is the issue, but as hacker says "two washouts in the 1st round" pretty lucky so far.