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The real problem stems from when Elburton Villa would not play us at the time and date originally fixtured by the league. End of story. Dave Hooper St. Blazey Manager

I would like to put the record straight. The game was fixtured for Saturday April 30th at 3pm at Elburton Villa. I was contacted by the manager of Elburton Villa on Tuesday 26th April asking if i would play the game on Friday 29th April with an evening kick off, or an 11am or 5pm kick off on Saturday April 30th. I questioned why the fixture had to be moved and as i am aware any movement of a fixture had to be done by mutual agreement. I questioned why it was left four days before the game before we were contacted about re-arranging the fixture, if there was a problem Elburton Villa would have been aware of the problem when the fixture came through. They gave a number of excuses why we couldnt kick off at 3pm on the 30th, like "we cannot play the same time as the first team" (even though there is more than one pitch) and "we only have one set of changing rooms". We offered to kick off at 3pm and not worry about changing rooms. They refused. We offered to switch the game to St. Blaise Park. (As Plymouth Parkway did with Biscovey when they double booked their pitch.) They refused. As it was bank holiday weekend, it was difficult for my players to re-arrange things to accomodate a change of kick off time at very short notice, and with Elburton unwilling to kick off at the scheduled time, it was finally agreed with the league and Mike Murray, that we settle for a 1-1 draw, and nobody get fined. Both sides agreed to this. Only when Elburton Villa beat St. Teath, and realised they needed another win to be promoted, they decided that they wanted the game to go ahead, despite perviously agreeing to settle with a 1-1 draw. The Elburton Villa manager rang me on the Saturday evening to say that the game had to go ahead on the Tuesday evening with a 7pm kick off. With such short notice my players could not make arrangements to play a game that we thought was already done and dusted and our season was finished. I question how Elburton Villa can not fulfill a fixture, and then revisit it when it suits them at a later date. It makes a mockery of the league. And now we have been docked 3 points and fined. How can this be right when it was Elburton Villa who could not fulfill the original fixture? Dave Hooper St. Blazey Manager

:SM_carton: I hope Bodmin let us in free next it will be good PR for them and not pass it of because a lot of football fans turned up to support this game

<_< Because the game was called off last knight after only 30mins play, and we did not get a refund do we get in free next time?