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Can anyone verify why this game was called off?

sjab wrote:Can anyone verify why this game was called off?

well it was pretty wet last week so my guess would have been the oval was resembling a swimming pool

Thought so too...but the ressies played. If the ressies play you think they'd pay the main game??

sjab wrote:Thought so too...but the ressies played. If the ressies play you think they'd pay the main game??

could have been too damaged after that game and the umpires ruled that the ground was unfit to proceed further

interesting thing is even with more rain over that saturday nite.. macedonia share the ground with brahma lodge were able to play their game on sunday

both ressies and league game.... in which it is more likely a soccer than football game is to be called off

wasn't because the cricket pitch has a surface on it (not covered by sand) which with all the heavy rain, made it unsafe?

Punk Rooster wrote:wasn't because the cricket pitch has a surface on it (not covered by sand) which with all the heavy rain, made it unsafe?

Punky's right, the club umpires for the 2's didn't see a problem with it but aparantly the league umpires in the As did.

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PhilG wrote:I rang the SAAFL last week and they confirmed that the ground was ruled unsafe and the match was postponed to June 2.

PhilG thanks for clearing that up...I have a good mate that used to play for Glenunga and he thought it was cos they are crap they might of gone the biff!!!

Postponed?

Brahma should lose the match and Glenunga get the points.
What's the thinking behind rescheduling the match? It's Brahma's fault the oval wasn't in a suitable condition for play.

seems funny how the B grade played on it and they post poned the As

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the reason it was called off is because they use some sort of rubber matting on their cricket pitch rather than sand like every other club in the amateur league. obviously the SAAFL umpires though it was unsafe to play on, which i can understand cause i have played on it in the dry but could imagine it would be very slippery in the wet. The B's would have played bacause it wasnt up to league umpires whether they played or not. So is it the councils fault they use a rubber mat or the clubs?

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bondy wrote:the reason it was called off is because they use some sort of rubber matting on their cricket pitch rather than sand like every other club in the amateur league. obviously the SAAFL umpires though it was unsafe to play on, which i can understand cause i have played on it in the dry but could imagine it would be very slippery in the wet. The B's would have played bacause it wasnt up to league umpires whether they played or not. So is it the councils fault they use a rubber mat or the clubs?

From what I've heard, they did in fact deem it unfit, however Amateur league had inspected the matting prior to the year commencing and deemed it ok to play - so the umpires did not have any ground to stand on when they called it off. Ridiculous decision.

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This is a rather new phenomenon to me - I never saw it in Victoria but a lot of the country WA grounds I have seen (and even some grounds in Perth) have gone the rubber mats over synthetic wickets rather than bury it under sand or dirt. Of course, councils see it as the cheapest option for ground maintenance and they don't have to dig up sand or dirt - they can just tell cricket clubs to leave it down until footy finishes.

I doubt that the safety issue has been fully thought through. To me, it looks decidedly unsafe but I have been told that it is on virtually 100% of all non-turf cricket wickets in country WA. The clubs don't see much of an issue with them despite the wet weather in recent Saturdays but thank goodness I am 33 and retired as I wouldn't want to be an on-baller anywhere in the nation on a wet day with this surface underfoot and some sand or dirt stuck to my boots ... I can feel a knee re-co coming on!

Has anyone some across this stuff yet on a wet day? Opinions?

PhilG wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:

bondy wrote:the reason it was called off is because they use some sort of rubber matting on their cricket pitch rather than sand like every other club in the amateur league. obviously the SAAFL umpires though it was unsafe to play on, which i can understand cause i have played on it in the dry but could imagine it would be very slippery in the wet. The B's would have played bacause it wasnt up to league umpires whether they played or not. So is it the councils fault they use a rubber mat or the clubs?

From what I've heard, they did in fact deem it unfit, however Amateur league had inspected the matting prior to the year commencing and deemed it ok to play - so the umpires did not have any ground to stand on when they called it off. Ridiculous decision.

Not if - as Bondy said - it was wet and slippery. Something that the SAAFL inspection would not have taken into account.

If it has been raining wouldn't the whole oval be wet and slippery?

PhilG wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:

bondy wrote:the reason it was called off is because they use some sort of rubber matting on their cricket pitch rather than sand like every other club in the amateur league. obviously the SAAFL umpires though it was unsafe to play on, which i can understand cause i have played on it in the dry but could imagine it would be very slippery in the wet. The B's would have played bacause it wasnt up to league umpires whether they played or not. So is it the councils fault they use a rubber mat or the clubs?

From what I've heard, they did in fact deem it unfit, however Amateur league had inspected the matting prior to the year commencing and deemed it ok to play - so the umpires did not have any ground to stand on when they called it off. Ridiculous decision.

Not if - as Bondy said - it was wet and slippery. Something that the SAAFL inspection would not have taken into account.

Phil, if the SAAFL inspect it and say it's fit, I would've thought that would've been taken into consideration, not just the conditions on the day of inspection. I don't really think VERY part time umpires in Div 5 are in a position to make a call like that and completely disadvantage two sides who now have to play a make up game in June.

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