Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:09 am  

Is the game going ahead?

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:11 am  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

Is the game going ahead?

Game is off.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:30 am  

bulls2487 wrote:

Game is off.

Don't be too sure. Our players got sent home and have been called back. Farce.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:44 am  

And sent home again. Game off. What a mess.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:01 pm  

Amateur hour or what. Extremely poor from the officials and the club to not make this call earlier. I got wind it was off around 10:45am but to not announce it to the fans until 45 mins before kick off is a bit of a joke.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:30 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Don't be too sure. Our players got sent home and have been called back. Farce.

Bulls aren't to blame for it.
Touch judge turned up said pitch wasn't playable(He don't have the right to call game off)
Ref came over from Warrington said pitch was playable by this point Bulls staff had left due to info from touch judge.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:28 pm  

bulls2487 wrote:

Bulls aren't to blame for it.
Touch judge turned up said pitch wasn't playable(He don't have the right to call game off)
Ref came over from Warrington said pitch was playable by this point Bulls staff had left due to info from touch judge.

Its the Bulls responsibility to get the pitch inspected by somebody with the correct authority to make the decision as per the operation rules. To send players away and then call them back was absolute madness not to mention to then drag the decision out for so long that away fans had no idea to set off or not. The club should have been on at the RFL early this morning and a local ref could have come out and made the decision.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:07 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Its the Bulls responsibility to get the pitch inspected by somebody with the correct authority to make the decision as per the operation rules. To send players away and then call them back was absolute madness not to mention to then drag the decision out for so long that away fans had no idea to set off or not. The club should have been on at the RFL early this morning and a local ref could have come out and made the decision.

They asked the RFL for advice who said Touch Judge can make the decision but then said he couldn't so asked Ref to travel over to check pitch. We asked for a local ref they sent someone from Warrington hence the delay in decision making.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:11 pm  

Gutted. Was looking forward to seeing some rugby. Hopefully they re-arrange for this week at some point.

Re: Vs. Halifax (H) - Boxing Day Friendly : Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:09 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Its the Bulls responsibility to get the pitch inspected by somebody with the correct authority to make the decision as per the operation rules. To send players away and then call them back was absolute madness not to mention to then drag the decision out for so long that away fans had no idea to set off or not. The club should have been on at the RFL early this morning and a local ref could have come out and made the decision.

OH NO! Man in Ovenden has to take his coat off and sit back down.