MFC vs Tonbridge Angels

[Wellsie]

www.margate-fc.com.

[I am Spartacus]

Who was the referee?

[Chris1]

I understand the match officials still get paid if the game is called off. That rule should be changed.

[Wellsie]

I understand the match officials still get paid if the game is called off. That rule should be changed.

 

Why? Players do. And as I understand it not 100% of their match fee.

[Chris1]

Do non-contracted players get paid when a game is postponed? If they do, then even more reason not to have games called off when not strictly necessary.

 

Games never used to get called off in such large numbers, and you can't say the weather is worse than 20 years ago.

 

It's a scam isn't it: call the game off at the slightest 'health and safety' excuse, trouser the dosh, thanks very much, then come back and pick up another slice when it is eventually played. All at the expense of those who put their hands in their pockets to fund football at this level, including us poor supporters.

 

If someone can tell me the officials only get (let's say) 5% of the match fee if they call the game off, then I'll climb slightly down off my soapbox. But only slightly.

 

Edit: percentage down

[Franny]

I understand the match officials still get paid if the game is called off. That rule should be changed.

 

Why? Players do. And as I understand it not 100% of their match fee.

Match fee ? I thought we paid our players weekly rather than on a match by match basis. So they get paid the same whether they play 1 game in a week or 3 games in a week .

[blueblood]

Anyone out in that rain yesterday would not have been surprised to see the game called off. It was heavy

The problem was not yesterdays rain or last weeks but, the long term problem the pitch as suffered from since it was re installed. In sufficient drainage, what drainage there is was coverd and compacted by the contractors leaving a impermeable layer. This layer needs breaking up and, more drainage putting in. Followed by an additional 12 to 18 inches of specialist top soil. When this is done then we should be surprised when matches are called off. How much this will cost and who will pay for it is the question? Until then we will have to live with it.

My personel experience of these conditions stems from the years up until I was 42, spent working at home on the family farm. Most of that period of my life was taken up battleing against constant rain and 6" to 8" of top soil, laid on impermeable boulder clay in the north staffordshire moorlands.

[Coffin Ender]

We never had these problems in the old days - bring back the slope!

[I am Spartacus]

My personel experience of these conditions stems from the years up until 1942, spent working at home on the family farm. Most of that period of my life was taken up battleing against constant rain and 6" to 8" of top soil, laid on impermeable boulder clay in the north staffordshire moorlands.

 

 

Did not realise you were that old Graeme

[blueblood]

Thank you "Jim". I'll take your comments as a compliment. Shows you what botox( Mrs Lee Chapman, alias, the lips) and a good face cream cannot always put right.