Game off

[Winging It]

I remember a few seasons back i think it was, against Gainsborough at home when the goalmouths was the subject of the inspection outcome. Both were in a far worse state than what i have seen from the weekends clips of the playing surface.  It was pretty much a bog of mud in some places, yet we got the game on with some hard work on the pitch, by both sets of players and ground staff if i remember correctly.

So its quite obvious that Chorley came with the mindset of 'it's cold, we are a weakened team, let's find a way of getting it off'.

[The Big M]

I have been fighting our corner on their Facebook page,apparently they have done this twice before,and both times they would have had to field weaker teams,funny that!!
They were even suggesting that Boston should compensate Chorley fans.
They even think that we have no chance of reporting them to the FA or league.
This is all a blatant cheating tactic that they have done before.m
But one thing is for sure,their manager has no respect for Chorley fans or anyone else.
A complete and totally self conceited dick.

Just thought I'd come back to you on this - I have seen your messages on the Chorley Facebook page, and it is understandable that you have been influenced by the posts by a Stafford fan.

However I wanted to explain that the club has not done this twice before.  The first match in question was an FA Trophy game where the pitch at Chorley was iced up and we wanted to give as much chance as possible for it to thaw.  Bearing in mind that Stafford is only an hour or so from Chorley, we called for a local ref to come to the ground around lunchtime and he called the game off.  The Stafford fans and players turned up at a similar time to the referee; some 2.5 hours before kick off. 
Knowing the weather conditions, had they planned to set off at a later time, they could have been informed that the game was called off and avoided the travel.

I don't know where the Stafford fan thinks the second example comes from - the rearranged game was set for the following Tuesday evening, and the game was called off mid afternoon as there had been no increase in temperature and the pitch was still icy in the shadow of the main stand.  Stafford was informed and so avoided setting off.

It is ridiculous to suggest that Chorley would call off matches to avoid fielding weaker teams - both by the Stafford fan and by a number of Boston fans.  We have a long term injury to Jason Walker and Sefton Gonzales has left the club.  But we have a fully fit Marcus Carver and also the back up of a member of our Development Squad.  This has been the same for the previous two matches where we beat a good Brackley side at their ground and were narrowly defeated by a rejuvenated Halifax Town away in midweek.  Its not ideal, but one thing the club would not resort to is the 'blatant cheating tactic' which you suggest we have done before

The players were heard saying they did not want to play,ground unfit and not just by one person,quite a few heard it hence the posts about them saying no after Boston AND the TWO referees said it was playable.

Your Club Secretary confirmed in a tweet yesterday that 'We had a local referee pass it at 10.00am.  The match referee arrived at 1.15pm and had issues with one or two patches'
That suggests to be that the match ref had concerns 45 minutes before the Chorley team arrived.
If he had concerns, he should have made a decision there and then.
It is the ref who calls off the game, not either of the managers.

Apparently the pitch was ok with trainers, but once players put their boots on, concerns were raised about the safety of parts of the playing surface.

Catting to the bbc boys they claimed that the ref said Chorley didn't want to play on it. Still he should have told thee tough 

[ChorleyMetz]

I remember a few seasons back i think it was, against Gainsborough at home when the goalmouths was the subject of the inspection outcome. Both were in a far worse state than what i have seen from the weekends clips of the playing surface.  It was pretty much a bog of mud in some places, yet we got the game on with some hard work on the pitch, by both sets of players and ground staff if i remember correctly.

So its quite obvious that Chorley came with the mindset of 'it's cold, we are a weakened team, let's find a way of getting it off'.

Why obvious? As I've said before we were no 'weaker' than we have been over the last couple of games.  So why go to the time and expense of crossing the country along with 100 or so supporters if we had no intention of playing.
Trouble is this theory has been mentioned a few times and has almost become fact.

[Pilgrim86]

So why go to the time and expense of crossing the country along with 100 or so supporters if we had no intention of playing.

Because the fixture list told you to.

[tom and jerry]

no point falling out with other fans chaps

they love their club as much as we do so let's just forget this episode and move on. whatever happened isn't their fault

bradford pa next. very winnable

[joshb]

If that is on.... Bradford in the middle of January is begging to be a P-P and replay on a cold February Monday night

[joshb]

Anyways, this has been moved to 14/2/17
A pity, as a week later it would fall in my school hols but alas, it won't.
Either way, it'll be almost certainly a sub-1000 crowd and lost income. Hopefully we've got a couple more useful additions in before then

[youngchubby69]

Was the wide load Mr Fairhurst lol

[Tipps End Pilgrim]

I would guess turning up late would have made the desire to postpone that bit greater on Chorley's part.

[ChorleyMetz]

I would guess turning up late would have made the desire to postpone that bit greater on Chorley's part.

Now that really is living in fantasy land.  Think they would rather have played on a pitch which was safe than the prospect of travelling back for a Tuesday night game.

[Tipps End Pilgrim]

Everyone knows that if you turn up late then your preparation is in disarray. For Chorley's sake lets hope the bus driver leaves a bit more contingency for the rearranged fixture.

 

[ChorleyMetz]

Everyone knows that if you turn up late then your preparation is in disarray. For Chorley's sake lets hope the bus driver leaves a bit more contingency for the rearranged fixture.

 

As I've already said the bus left later than planned as the team were waiting for the result of the local referee's inspection and the green light from Boston before setting off.

[York Street Pilgrim]

The real shame in all of this is that referees aren't allowed to talk to the media. I would have loved to have heard the ref's own account of all of this and it might have stopped the war of words. Never really understood why refs can't talk, they'd probably be a lot more respected if they could explain their thought processes.

[youngchubby69]

The real shame in all of this is that referees aren't allowed to talk to the media. I would have loved to have heard the ref's own account of all of this and it might have stopped the war of words. Never really understood why refs can't talk, they'd probably be a lot more respected if they could explain their thought processes.

The refs don't talk to the general public  because they are above criticism
They are far to special to have their decisions questioned by us minions

[York Street Pilgrim]

But that's the point isn't it? The reason that decisions get questioned is because referees never get the opportunity to explain them. So the lack of discussion with the media is counterproductive.