Quote Originally Posted by The Hacker View Post
I take back my comment and appologize. Newcastle Football should of said to Westlakes. Play on the 21st or you forfeit. It’s not a Sat only comp so if you can’t field a team then stiff s$&t. So in fact the team coming ninth is the reason that the semis are 1 leg now. That makes that desicion even worse.
Not wanting to turn this into a mud slinging match but just want to provide some context from Westlakes side of things.

- we advised early on that the 21/8 wasn’t suitable for us and tried to work with Azzurri on alternate dates so that at-least 2 games could get on at a minimum. I believe (not 100% sure) we offered dates prior to the 21/8 as a solution as well
- we offered our venue as a solution to assist with field options to get the games played

To say we simply refused to play and suggest we didn’t attempt to assist in getting the games played isn’t quite right. I empathise with Azzurri and the position they’re in and its good that they have been so pro active to try and sort their games out but you can’t suggest that we are solely at fault for the circumstances at play now.