Funnily enough the chairman of the competition comittee is from North as well!

And Western have the head to head over North as well. Something fishy.

By laws state that if the game is abandoned and the game time is less than 50% of the allocated time then the game should be rescheduled - 3.17 (a)

Since it affects who gets in finals, the game should have been replayed - or have I missed something?

North have the head to head, so with equal wins % North get the spot. Its a shame the round 16 match couldnt be replayed, but hard to get it rescheduled late in the season. It sucks, but sometimes thems the breaks.

Sorry my mistake, North do have head to head, but only on point spread.

If you think that there isn't a you look after me and I'll support you from the competitions committee you are sadly mistaken.

Remember this is the very grup that decided Magic and Torrens Valley wont be allowed into div 1 and div 2. When members of the committee were in the best position to benefit from Magic kids moving clubs. And their entire argument was that they want kids to move clubs to strengthen the weaker clubs.

Plus they do have the powers to grant exemptions, and they have used this power in cases like this to go against the by-laws.

and your point is Juno 15?
BY LAWS DICTATE MOVE ON

Can someone please advise what is the recent letter from BSA that precludes - again getting no info from my club

Come on guys - what did it say?

Yes they have actually.

The by-law states that games should be replayed.

By not replaying this game, they are essentially, giving North the spot in finals and not allowing Magic to have a chance.

And they would have known this the day after round 16 was rained out.

Ok,

So what you are saying is that when they decided to NOT replay it, they didn't bother considering that 1 club would be disadvantages by their not following their own by-laws.

So incompetent rather than deliberate?

anons,

By the time he club worked out that the game mattered, after BSA had put the results up on sportingpulse, it was Monday. BSA then said oops, we dont have time to replay the game now as we have to play on Thursday. Competition committee decides it is North who goes in.

The reason they have the bylaw in the first place, is to stop this sort of thing happening.

It's BSA's stuff up, and nothing a club could have done would have stopped it.

Again, how is it the clubs fault to expect BSA to adhere to the bye-laws?

My children are only just starting to play district ball. If Under 14 Div 3 girls causes this much angst ..... heaven help me over the next 12 years. I'm grey already!

Oh Moses, you don't need to worry about grey hair, you'll be as bald as a badger like me soon

"We now have three teams impacted by BSA not following the by-laws. Any others out there??"

Adelaide Uni Div 3 mens and Div 4 womens both effected by the poorly written and poorly implemented by laws.

sorry kerfuffle but every club got sent an e-mail saying players had to have played 40% of games to be eligible for finals. If that e-mail then wasn't forwarded by the clubs secretary then I believe thats their own fault.

It's unfortunate since the div 3 mens would have taken it out but you should have read you e-mails!!!

This is what happens when BSA change rules and come up with a totally unworkable competition structure.

We were meant to have some reform, but really have just got some more bandaids that have made the entire structure more difficult for people to understand.

Competitions being split half way through the season.

Competitions with doube bye's.

Regonalised competitions with bigger blowouts.

All have resulted in decreased numbers especially at U10 and U12 levels.

I am a Forrestville player and this treatment of the Magic team is not fair,we were looking forward to playing them again.But if we come across the Rockets team we will play them not being happy about the way they got there.Why is our div ladder without points&why is Magic 4th but they still don"t make it it the finals?Sorry about our stadium,but i think there was a lot of time left to replay the game again.