+-

+-User

Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
 
 
 

Login with your social network

Forgot your password?

+-Stats ezBlock

Members
Total Members: 953
Latest: Yorksref
New This Month: 21
New This Week: 3
New Today: 0
Stats
Total Posts: 75107
Total Topics: 5527
Most Online Today: 93
Most Online Ever: 17046
(Mon 29 Mar 2021 19:08)
Users Online
Members: 0
Guests: 70
Total: 70

Author Topic: The FA Buildbase FA Trophy – First Round Proper (Sat 15th - Tue 18th DEC 2018)  (Read 1137 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

nemesis

  • RTR Veterans
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1,277
    • View Profile
Not sure what the alternative was though.  If you enter a national competition you know you could face long journeys, potentially midweek in the event of replays / postponed games.  The FA Trophy rule on postponements makes it clear what happens if a Saturday game is postponed, as below …

(c) First matches which are Postponed
(i) When a first match has been postponed, it shall be played on the same ground on or before the following Thursday.


So it couldn't be played the following Saturday, even taking aside the fact that both teams would have league games scheduled that day anyway, so the only option is midweek.  Will be interesting to see whether The FA accept their reason for withdrawal as reasonable, as otherwise they will be banned from next year's competition.

(c) If a Club decides to withdraw from the Competition after a drawn, postponed or abandoned match, notice must be given to The Association and its opponent at the end of the match.
(d) A Club failing to give satisfactory reason for withdrawing from the Competition shall in addition to any other action considered appropriate not be allowed to enter the Competition in the following season


The rules are not in dispute. It is the FA's slavish adherence to rules regardless of the circumstances that does them no credit, in my opinion.

Needham Market will regularly have league games postponed for replays, league cup fixtures and even County Cup ties so I don't see that as the biggest issue.
Agree Agree x 1 View List