Lee Lifeson-Peart

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I refereed at an U14s 7s tournament at the weekend and one of the competing clubs (who had brought 2x teams in their brand spanking 7s kit) refused to play as they felt the ground was too hard. They raised it at the coaches/refs meeting saying they weren't happy with pitch 2 (usually the training pitch and a bit less grassy between the 22s. The running order was switched so all the games were on pitch 1 then they decided that was too hard too.
They left.
Thankfully we refs were not dragged into it.
Tournament went off without a hitch and there were no injuries caused by the state of the pitch that I saw. I did 7 games of 10 minutes each.(10 minute games to make sure boys only played an hour max)
Enjoyable day - though a bit hot.
Charity event to raise money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance which needs £12,000 a DAY:wow: to keep 2no helicopters in the air.
They left.
Thankfully we refs were not dragged into it.
Tournament went off without a hitch and there were no injuries caused by the state of the pitch that I saw. I did 7 games of 10 minutes each.(10 minute games to make sure boys only played an hour max)
Enjoyable day - though a bit hot.
Charity event to raise money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance which needs £12,000 a DAY:wow: to keep 2no helicopters in the air.