2024 Zone League 1

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Ok all before this really gets out of hand, here is what happened.

Pres during ressies, 2nd half, says i'm pulling the flags out, game will be off.(yes it did rain)
Cardiff went out and did there up, no rain during this as the rain had stopped.
Westlakes waited and eventually did their warm up.

both teams entered the field of play ready to start, but were told after 5, the games off, Pres has called, when i spoke to him he sat on the fence as there were others there.

Depending on who you talk to, the ref agreed and disagreed the game shouldn't be played.

yes, Cardiff will be salty and pissed off, as we believe there is a process to calling games off which we don't think has been followed. (yes, Westlakes know how their ground handles the weather better than outsiders) and if we have to travel one Tuesday night so be it.

During the 1st round very similar weather when we played Swansea, flogged down 2 lower grades played, with the rain coming and going that day. During the warm up it belted down and didnt stop for quite a bit, same ref as yesterday pulled both clubs into a discussion and called it off, both agreed, and everyone went home believing the correct decision had been made.

If this process had been followed, yes still a bit pissed we didn't get to play, but process has been followed.

Yesterday was farcical at best, as we now believe the rules on calling games has changed, no longer up to the ref as i think most thought, we were told yesterday a club can call a game at anytime
and if you don't like it send an email on it and we will decide later if the decision was correct, has a new precedent been set for calling games off?

Thats the issue, we have swapped games several times this year, even when our ground was only just playable just to get games played and to watch this play out yesterday was disappointing.

cheers