ECPL Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 MORTGAGE ADVICE BUREAU ECPL Fixtures Saturday 25th March SWAZ Teamwear League Cup semi-final Pensilva 2 Plymstock United 1 Roy Radford Division One Cup Sponsored by Steve Andrews Tyres Ltd Semi-Final Lanreath 0 Plymouth Parkway 6 Premier Division Bere Alston United 6 St Stephens Borough 0 Launceston 2 Saltash United 1 Liskeard Athletic v St Austell (Postponed) St Blazey 4 St Teath 0 Torpoint Athletic 0 St Dominick 2 Division One Bude Town 0 Looe Town 4 Elburton Villa 8 Nanpean Rovers 0 Mevagissey 1 Millbrook 2 Padstow United 0 Roche 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number13 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Anyone know why? surely can't be the pitch.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingKos6 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Liskeard Groundstaff and Chairman deemed the pitch "dangerous and therefore out of bounds as they had been unable to cut the pitch" this was yesterday evening. I'll leave this one up for discussion.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECPL Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Anyone one know Padstow v Roche result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Ronnie Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Roche won 1-0 on twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elburton lad Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Pensilva v Plymstock Cup semi final ??? Went to watch our opponents in Cup final Not on neutral ground, Pensilva goalkeeper should have been sent off, Plymstock perfectly good goal disallowed by linesman who was Pensilva manager! , Referee so biased it was untrue How can the ECPL put a semi final on a pitch as bad as this with no neutral linesmen and a Referee who was awful throughout ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECPL Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Put your head in. The linesman is a qualified referee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob brown Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 4 hours ago, ECPL said: Put your head in. The linesman is a qualified referee. Don't think it's the ability of the linesman that's in question, more the fact that it's a cup semi final with club officials running the line and the game being played with a home advantage, which pensilvas pitch is a huge advantage. in my opinion a teams manager should not be running the line-but I can also appreiceate the difficulties in getting anyone to run the line, st dom had 2 different subs do it yesterday which I think is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECPL Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Sign of the times i'm afraid. If people did not stand up to do these jobs then there would be no football. As far as venue is concerned again it is the luck of the draw. If Plymstock had come out of the hat first then they would have been at home. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elburton lad Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 Seems a bit unfair the league dont allow semi finals to be played on a neutral pitch Agree with the above Pensilva pitch is a awful pitch and was definitely a advantage But not supplying two neutral linesman was a shocking decision . Next year the finalists could have home draws all the way which makes a mockery of the semis But yes - a sign of the times , local football seems to stagnate yearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 I agree with you Elburton lad, I think the semi-finals should be neutral grounds & neutral assistants. Club assistants get enough abuse off teams now, all it takes is one or two close decisions that could decide an outcome of a big match such as a semi-final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 This argument has all come about because up until a couple of seasons ago the competition had a two legged semi final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 Take a leaf out of the Combination League's book. They have their knockers but two semi finals on neutral grounds - where clubs volunteered to host the games which are played on Sundays. It works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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