Local RL and events III (2009/2010)

Quote: Shooze "Saw the second half of the U10s tournament and there was some good stuff played.

The tension that boiled over at the end had been simmering for a while as other teams were adamant that Panthers were switching players between their A & B sides throughout, to the point of naming names.

The final was a great game, but was somewhat spoiled by a refereeing display I shall kindly call 'inconsistent'.

As a neutral it all took the edge off I'm afraid and lessons need to be learned.'"

no players were swapped and two team sheets with full names and numbers were given, due to the number of panthers players in the two sides "22" some players were in u9s shirts which had duplicat numbers on the same has some kids in u10s shirts,again in hindsight one of the teams should have kept their shirts inside out but hindsight is a wonderful thing you dont expect accusations of cheating at u10s,for the record the only complaint was made by a lock lane players mother and nobody else and the accusation was made that 1 player had played in both sides who just happend to have been an ex lock lane player who left under a cloud.

has for the referee i thought he did well considering the pressure put on him from the crowd and to be confronted by parents is a disgrace and should never happen hopefully the perpatrayers will be named shamed and given club bans.

you are quite right that lessons need to be learned and over the two days 3 out of the 5 age groups that played ended in contreversy all games played between the panthers and lock lane,has somebody who has played for lock lane and coached at the panthers i find it sad that they cannot get through a day without problems and imho the only way to stop it is to keep the two clubs apart,again not one incident was child on child but all from the touchline side.