Rules for pre-season fixtures

[Webbo MFI]

A MAXIMUM of 6 substitutes may be used and once a player goes off he can not some back on.

 

there....

 

now you know

[Rob_the_Saint]

Whose rules are these?

[Webbo MFI]

FA

[Rob_the_Saint]

TA.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Pointless!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

How can the FA have rules for pre-season friendlies?

 

You can do what you want in pre-seasons. You can have four quarters of 15 minutes each if you want.

 

You can play 14-a-side if you want.

 

 

[AFF]

15 a side? With the correctly shaped ball?

 

Gain and then retain possession, Zealadan. A strange concept, I appreciate but as you know, I have said more than once that we can learn a lot from rugby.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Kind of restricts the amount of trialists we can play!

 

Or can we advertise the game as a trialist game and then play as many as we want. But then again the 2000+ crowd for St.Albans Trialists v Watford Kids mat be affected.

I'm staying out of it, it's a hard job running a football club!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Since when has the FA told clubs what they can and cannot do for Pre-seasons?

 

This is [****!!****]. They're not competitive games. As long as both teams agree to the rule, so what??

 

Who went to Colney Heath about five years ago when we played 3 periods of 30 minutes each??

 

 

[AFF]

Hi EFMTFTV.

 

You must be psychic.

 

I see that Watford 1st team are to play Northwood in a PSF as part of the deal where The Hornets signed one of their players and 'Wood have made the game all ticket with a maximum capacity of 2000. Ticket prices are £7 and £3 concessions.

 

I haven't applied for a ticket, of course. I think we play their Rezzies that evening.

[GHA EFM]

What chances, AFF, that the club charge a tenner that night as an entrance fee?

[Laz]

So our (10,000 ÷ 5) gate that night will probably be affected. Many of the hoards who were planning to travel may decide that Northwood is closer to Watford and watch that game instead. How fortunate, that the attendance is limited to 2,000.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

So Watford first team are playing a match at Northwood, roughly two miles down the road? (About 2 miles anyway, my brain was pretty messed up by that stage of the walk!)

 

The same night, we are playing a Watford XI (youth, then) at Clarence Park, and charging an extra £3 to that which Northwood are charging.

 

St Albans vs Watford XI: It's gonna be HUGE.

 

 

[GHA EFM]

Who said the romance of non-league football was dead?

[Wilf Woodend]

I think the subs rule is a FIFA / UEFA directive that reaches all the way down to us as ref's have to apply the laws correctly and not according to the occassion to maintain their markings. There was an item in this weeks NLP. Players who should be sent off will be rather than substituted.