Quote Originally Posted by Zone Insider View Post
Southy pulled out of today?s trial with Cardiff because of no ref?s ? Sounds to me like they were scared of getting flogged again by another zone team in the pre season.
Like FR said dumb comment, from what I was told when asked around what was going on. Clubs that play in Northern competitions are prohibited from playing 1st grade games without referees. Sounds like Cardiff did the right thing in sending the sanction to Newcastle Football 2 weeks before the game but Newcastle Football only passed it onto Northern the day before the game and by that point all refs had been assigned to matches with none spare. Northern's rules prohibit their 1st grade teams from playing without assigned refs and therefore it had to be cancelled.