JHR

no report from the perranporth v trispen game? by all acounts it was a close game?

aint seen st austell yet, but expecting fowey and saltash to be up there with them.

expecting saltash to win comfortably.

no, believe me, its not easy being a birmingham city fan, the up and downs are horrific.

cheers buddy,i hope we stay up too! haha

Yeah totally agree.. not a pleasant game for us (even though we did get a massive win). a few of your players need to take a long hard look at themselves, but the majority were fine. Also, max respect to your manager (im guessing you?) for coming into our changing room at the end at apologising. Was very impressed by that Not me fella.. I was the striker, number 7. Im not sure how it all ended up like that but still, whats done is done! Ah ok, yeah all in the past now. good luck for the rest of the season. p.s our second goal was the best haha

Yeah totally agree.. not a pleasant game for us (even though we did get a massive win). a few of your players need to take a long hard look at themselves, but the majority were fine. Also, max respect to your manager (im guessing you?) for coming into our changing room at the end at apologising. Was very impressed by that

well it wouldnt have got to extra time if the ref had had the balls to make the decisions he's paid to make. 1-0 down and down to 9 men with 30 mins left, i think the result might have been a little different....

lolololol yeah the ref wasnt biased. shocking hack at our player from behind somehow = yellow card. our player through 1-1 brought down from behind, nothing given. 99 times out of 100 is a nailed on pen and red card. the polperro players were a disgrace the whole game, and i fail to see how they can blame us.

No, but it is the 'Rathbone Cup', which in Cornwall teams take seriously! You still seem to be missing the point, that if a player is too old (no matter how much), they are not eligible to play. I've been involved with a Youth Football Club for several years and sadly there were similar situations with teams pulling out of both league and cup competitions, when our teams progressed through to U16s and U18s. Only on one occasion were we unable to field a full team for an U18s league match, so we played the game with ten players. Would this not have been an alternative, or you could have considered registering one or two 16 year olds beforehand, as back-up, as these are eligibile to play for U18s, and the fixture could have been fulfilled in a sporting manner, rather than your team being disqualified! to be honest with hindsight, this would have been the better option, but with players pulling out at the last minutem unfortunately we were left in the uncomfortable postion of 10 players and no keeper or 11 players... we chose the 11 players as it so happened we dominated the game and probs didnt need the 11th player, but i guess whats done is done

i agree laws are laws, but this isnt the FA cup. we need to to stop under 18s teams pulling out, yet you can still kick out a team for trying toactually get a game on instead of pulling out like many other teams have done?...

i find it surprising, that when we know under 18s team pull out during the season, a team can be expelled from the cup when they play a a 2 month too old player, who normally plays outfield in duchy 5, in goal! surely everyone would want the game to go ahead rather than grampound concede the game because they can't raise a side?