DISCIPLINARY CASES
| NAME | # | TEAM | CODE | Q | OFFENCE | SUSPENDED |
| 10 December |
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GAME MANAGEMENT REPORTS
| HOME TEAM | REPORT | NEXT HOME GAME |
| 10 December |
| Greenwich Mariners
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No coaching boxes. No team areas. No limit lines. No numbers or nine-yard marks. Goalposts were soccer-style with extended uprights. Field markings were faint at kick-off. Home team's balls were inadequate so we used the away team's balls. The ambulances arrived late so kick-off was delayed slightly.
Dan Bridgland #506
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11/02/07
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| Loughborough Aces
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No team areas, no limit lines.
Game kicked off 1/2 hour late due to incomplete medical cover (no stretcher), ran 10 minute quarters as a result.
Officials and admin fee not paid. Plaudits to both teams. Only a handful of 5-yard penalties in the game.
Brian Yates #29
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18/02/07
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| Teeside Cougars
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Only 2 of the assigned BAFRA officials turned up at the venue. The head coaches of both teams were informed that we could not officiate the game with only 2 officials. The game was played with coaching staff acting as the officials.
Ian Cubitt #457
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n/a
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| Tarannau Aberystwyth
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This game was played at the Staffordshire Stallions' ground so the pitch marks are against them.
No team areas, 80 yard pitch, NFL hash marks.
Ambulance didn't arrive until 2:20pm, so we ran ten-minute quarters with 5 minutes for half time.
A lot of running plays meant we managed to get game finished just before darkness.
Charlie Dean-Young #258
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18/02/07
Staffs
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| Edinburgh Timberwolves
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Field of play marked too wide. Coaching box less than 6 feet from sideline.
No team area marked and no limit lines marked. Tops of numbers less than 9 feet from sideline.
Inbounds lines less than 60 feet from sideline. Hash marks not always 1 yard apart at sideline and inbounds lines.
No ball boys provided. Game kick-off held up for 15 minutes whilst a chain crew was located.
Game started with three cheerleaders as chain crew but, whilst being willing to step in and help out they proved to be poor at best and were replaced.
Game duration shortened by four minutes in the 4th quarter due to failing light.
Crew and BAFRA fee not paid as Edinburgh claim that they need to be invoiced in the week before the game to allow them to claim money from their university.
They also claim to have informed BAFRA of this fact.
Overall game management very poor.
Henry Richardson #358
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18/02/07
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| Royal Holloway Vikings
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The Royal Holloway field is 80 yards long.
The kick off was delayed for 15 minutes as Royal Holloway were unable to provide a numbered roster or sufficient match balls. Hertfordshire Hurricanes provided two game balls so the game could commence.
It was noted that some Hurricanes players had dirty kits although there was no colour clash.
K Wickham #423
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18/02/07
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EDITORIAL
Cleats and things
How did everyone's game go at the weekend?
Exciting games and no injuries, I hope.
Speaking of no injuries, did everyone follow Jim's instructions to check with the coach before the game that no player had over-long (more than ½-inch) cleats on their shoes, and if so reminded the coach that the player may not wear them during the game?
We did, and one coach sent a string of players to us before the game to have their cleats checked - most of them were illegal and the players had to change.
It is vital that you did do this because the wearing of these cleats is considered dangerous and is expressly forbidden in the BAFA rulebook.
It is not within the referee's jurisdiction to waive this rule - it is mandatory.
If you decide to waive it or even just ignore it, then you are placing yourself and your crew in a potentially house-losing lawsuit against you if someone had been hurt as a result of your decision to ignore that rule.
A court would likely regard it as gross negligence.
The only solace would be that the coach would probably have got sued too as he had signed the coach's declaration.
The same applies to all of the mandatory equipment - you wouldn't allow a player to not wear a helmet if it was a hot day, and the same applies to cleats.
We need to be consistent here, and the only option is for all officials to rigorously enforce the mandatory equipment rules.
That's enough of that, Stangroom, it is time now to wish all of you a Happy Christmas and a Merry New year (or whatever it is you chose to celebrate).
This is the last regular Newsflash for 2006, and I'll start up again in 2007.
Roger Stangroom
newsflash@bafra.org
PAUDITS FOR READING/PORTSMOUTH - AND NO JINX
I would like to offer plaudits for both Reading and Portsmouth for a well fought game of Football on Saturday 9th December that ended with a win for Portsmouth after the first period of overtime.
Despite the best efforts of Keith Wickham to portray me as the ultimate harbinger of doom to games, and naming an end of the field as the "crucifixion end" due to the large fence located there - the weather was good, the game management and medical cover was good, both teams turned out fully ready to play and we had a really good game from start to finish and even had some overtime to contend with!
Phil Clarke #372
HOLIDAY QUIZ
Here is a little quiz to give you something to do now that the games have stopped.
Just for fun, and the answers will be in the first newsflash next year.
I've done the first one to give an idea of what to do.
| No | Cryptic | Answer |
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| 1 | 24 H in a D | 24 Hours in a Day |
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| 2 | 26 L of the A | |
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| 3 | 7 D of the W | |
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| 4 | 7 W of the W | |
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| 5 | 12 S of the Z | |
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| 6 | 66 B of the B | |
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| 7 | 52 C in a P (WJs) | |
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| 8 | 13 S in the U S F | |
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| 9 | 18 H on a G C | |
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| 10 | 39 B of the O T | |
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| 11 | 5 T on a F | |
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| 12 | 90 D in a R A | |
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| 13 | 3 B M (S H T R) | |
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| 14 | 32 is the T in D F at which W F | |
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| 15 | 15 P in a R U T | |
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| 16 | 3 W on a T | |
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| 17 | 100 C in a R | |
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| 18 | 11 P in a F (S) T | |
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| 19 | 12 M in a Y | |
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| 20 | 13 is U F S | |
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| 21 | 8 T on a O | |
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| 22 | 29 D in F in a L Y | |
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| 23 | 27 B in the N T | |
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| 24 | 365 D in a Y | |
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| 25 | 13 L in a B D | |
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| 26 | 52 W in a Y | |
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| 27 | 9 L of a C | |
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| 28 | 60 M in a H | |
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| 29 | 23 P of C in the H B | |
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| 30 | 64 S on a C B | |
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| 31 | 9 P in S A | |
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| 32 | 6 B to an O in C | |
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| 33 | 1000 Y in a M | |
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| 34 | 15 M on a D M C | |
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| 35 | 1024 B in a K | |
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| 37 | 12 L of H | |
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| 38 | 10 I of V | |
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| 39 | 24 H from T by G P | |
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| 40 | 76 T L the B P | |
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| 41 | 9 P in the S S | |
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| 42 | 1000 W that a P is W | |
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| 43 | 200 P for P G in M | |
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| 44 | 40 D and N of the G F | |
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| 45 | 4 C in the H H | |
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| 46 | 112 P in a H | |
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| 47 | 9¾ is the P at K C for the H E | |
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| 48 | 1000 is the S R of a M | |
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| 49 | 4 H of the A | |
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| 50 | 14 L in a S | |
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ROGER'S RHETORIC
| From last week |
Play:
A's ball, 2nd and 3, on A's 40. A29 fumbles on A's 38. The ball rolls out of bounds on A's 42. A78 holds on A's 36 during the down.
Ruling:
A's ball, 2nd and 13, on A's 30. The clock starts on the ready for play.
The ball is returned to the spot of the fumble since the fumble went forward and out of bounds between the goal lines.
By interpretation, the running play ended behind the neutral zone.
The spot of enforcement for the holding foul is the previous spot (9-3-3-b-Penalty).
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A's ball, 3rd and 8, on A's 34. Tight end A80 runs his route and B29 incidentally grasps his face mask on A's 40.
A80 changes his route and QB A18 throws a pass in A80's direction.
The ball goes off his hands and falls incomplete on the 50.
Ruling?
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