I was thinking exactly the same, that's a ridiculous distance for a grass roots youth game.
adult game on BUT under 16s off?
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It was 30 EW and he's getting his fee.
TBF it was a late appointment (Friday) and the club weren't given his details.
I thought it was 40 EW at U15s?
This didn't age well....
Apparently, when the inspecting referee visited in the morning, the pitch was mostly playable with one small troublesome area. He was informed by the home club that they felt with a few hours to work on it, they could make it playable, but the away team were going to have a lot of expense to travel and were allegedly refusing to do so and the league approved for the game to be off...
Step 4 football ladies and gentlemen...
My 3rd consecutive postponement, now over a month since I last refereed a game. Fingers crossed for better luck on Wednesday...
Crazy imo. That Away team will now probably have to travel for a midweek game. Seems to me they just didn’t want to play full stop & if the league ordered them too, it may have been problematic for your match control. However, I don’t blame the league for agreeing to a postponement.
Equates to, 'the away side were light on players' and 'the league defaulted to blame avoidance'
The long term forecast is for an active jet stream throughout the winter months. Whilst these forecasts are only really relevant for Government Planning and Insurance Premiums and the like, they're not reliable by any stretch of the imagination. That said, everything points towards wetter winters over the next few decades, so the end-of-season fixture calamity is likely to become common place unless the widespread adoption of artificial surfaces mitigates the issue. It's not the same game for me on artificial, but it's become a necessary evil for a number of reasons
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To be fair it didn't help that an hour before the inspected referee inspected the home side told me 'it's unplayable'. Not sure what made them change their mind.
Yes, it sounds like a unenviable call for you to make in advance of travel, but it's not right that the away side effectively called the game off on your behalf
Arguably not right, I agree, but then I suppose it made my life easier in a way! But then we don't get in to refereeing for an easy life!
Did you have to move from the Centre Circle to let it landNevermind branches, fence panels, and confused cows… I bet none of you had a helicopter land on your pitch yesterday
Hadn’t left the bar by that pointDid you have to move from the Centre Circle to let it land
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