It just doesn't make a lot of sense. There's still 10 rounds before that wet weather round. With most teams having a current game to make up, I don't see why they couldn't insert a wet weather weekend in for some time during June or early July to ease the burden and leave the one at the end of season up our sleeves. I realise there are some clubs with a number of games banked up, but there's still a lot of time in the season to fulfill those games. Back to back spare weekends is not the answer and clearly not thought about very logically from a playing point of view from the federations.
It's football, not s***er!!
Hopefully the wind and sunshine forecast today and tomorrow will get some of the moisture out of the grounds for the weekend. Was over at our pitch this morning and despite the storm last night it was reasonably firm underfoot. No dew this morning either which is good.
Already had our round 4 match showing in GameDay for the 13th.
I can kinda understand that decision. No point rescheduling a washout when there's a high chance of forfeits with players away.
I look at it from two differnt perspectives:
MiniRoos/Youth Interdistrict - More likely to be away the middle weekend of the School Holidays where they have already scheduled a round
AA/O35 - More likely to go away on the long weekend.
Possibly stuffed either weekend, for different reasons.
What i'm saying is, why not allow the club to contact opponents to see if they are available? Put it back on the teams to do the legwork and approve it if both teams agree.
If both teams agree, let them play. If one team cant, reschedule at another time.
To say a blanket "no" to the possibility of playing isn't being proactive or accomodating in what is again a disrupted season.
Makes sense for the 2 teams to be able to liaise with eachother, when teams agree on a date, send to Macquarie for approval.
Or leave it, let Macquarie reschedule as suits them.
May be tricky to get refs out to the fixtures, but if you wanna play, I don’t see why they can’t give clubs back some kind of power/ability to reschedule.
I guess it's my naivety; I actually always thought that the Queens birthday weekend was an early season wet weather weekend. Kind of assumed the districts were hedging bets. If there's no major wash outs everyone gets a week off on a holiday weekend; if there is a round washed out they've got a scheduled break they can replay it in.
I am talking 1 or 2 games from last Friday night and the same on a Saturday that were both washed out.
We got one on with help from one association, as it was the weekends game and it had not been even noted as a washout at that stage, were meant to play last night but the weather pegged us again.
The other association wasn't happy as that's there job and told us to not to get involved basically.
They did say they understood why i was trying to do it, but don't please.
I think they should promote this if it gets done the correct way, emails etc, anything would help at the moment.
This is my major gripe with the association(s). The chain of commiunication is far too long to organise something in quick time.
Club A > Association X > Association Y > Club B and back again.
Nothing wrong with Club A & B getting together, organising the logistics and going to the Associations for approval. Except in the eyes of the powers that be.
Another week, another wash out half hour before the match after all the other games on Friday night and Saturday got on.
Good weather for the next few weeks and I bet Macquarie doesn't attempt to reschedule any of the games.
Cooks hill must have left the sprinklers on last night
Athfield called off by the refs
too early in my opinion
no rain since the refs called it off, now the sun has come out