last man standing Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Been recently cited by the ayrshire afa for an unfulfilled fixture , morning after the scotland england game where it had been pissin down all nyt , the club secretary went down at 8:30 for pitch inspection as if game was postponed he'd let away club know early , as it was thought pitch was soaking and unplayable , so he txt ref , match secretary and away club secretary that game was off , got reply from away team and match secretary that he would take his word for it after the weather the nyt before , the ref is now saying he never received txt and turned up at normal time and pitch was playable , we now being citied for unfulfilled fixture and are at risk of being thrown out 1/4 final of cup , i think this is unreasonable but anyone know if theres an appeal system or anything ??? https://vimeo.com/198393580 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld yin wae knowledge Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 What the League are doing is perfectly within the rules, did you not text the ref and ask him to reply to confirm he had received the text. If the pitch is private I would get the grounds person to write a letter stating the pitch was unplayable at 8.30am.[ no association can argue with that] If its a council park get a letter to confirm it was unplayable at the stated time. I would go to the meeting and apologise for the referee having a wasted journey and offer to pay his fee. and stick to you side of the story that the pitch was unplayable in your opinion at 8.30am the time of your inspection, and as the club official in charge you made the decision to call the game off. The ref, I guess was in attendance about 1pm and that's the time he said the pitch was playable you can not argue with that however you carried out the inspection much earlier....good luck Yes you have the right of appeal of any decision taken by any amateur association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNW Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Whos says that video is the pitch lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
last man standing Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 TNW thats what the committee said but why would committee man put it on group chat then lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeswideopen15 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Interesting that u care to even mention that it was the day after England v Scotland. Maybe that was the real reason, you have no authority to call a game off, only ref council or grounds man ( if private ) are able to , hopefully you do not get thrown out the cup but sounds like the committee are 100% right to cite you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBallsPlease Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Ever, ever, text a referee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Ever, ever, text a referee. Having reffed for years, most clubs communicate by txt and isn't a problem. I get the point your making, if he didn't reply to confirm maybe a phone call to check would have been a better idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
last man standing Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Mentioned the england v scotland game as to get a recollection of the weather that nyt , prob a bit naive in just txting referee i get that now , but why when we txt the match secretary he agreed game pitch was unplayable without a referee or council mans say so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeswideopen15 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Match sec also has no authority to make a decision on the pitch. Even if you did phone the ref or he replied, surely when u sent the match cancellation form in to the association they would still have cited the club for not having an authorised person sign the form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
last man standing Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Obviously im a bit blind here as i didnt even know there had to be a match cancellation form to be filled in and sent away , i was just thinking pitch was sodden . Game off , simples lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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