In case you hadn’t seen this. Beyond words. That club is an absolute shitshow.

https://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/2018/october/stags-to-play-blues-in-friendly/

Quoted from marinerdazza

In case you hadn’t seen this. Beyond words. That club is an absolute shitshow.

https://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/2018/october/stags-to-play-blues-in-friendly/

Disgraceful. Odds on the EFL let them get away with it. Over to you GTFC board.

MJ said the postponement is probably a blessing in disguise for us as we have got about 13 injured players at the moment including illness and players carrying knocks so we move on.

It would've been great banter if their friendly was against us.

Why is this an issue? If the 3 players they had lost were included in the squad I could understand but they’re not and the manager just wants to keep the players fit. Hardly a disgrace.

Quoted from kamakazebear

Why is this an issue? If the 3 players they had lost were included in the squad I could understand but they’re not and the manager just wants to keep the players fit. Hardly a disgrace.

I tend to agree. There's no importance to the game at all and obviously the manager wants to keep the rest of his squad fit.

Can't see a problem myself.

Quoted from Les Brechin

I tend to agree. There's no importance to the game at all and obviously the manager wants to keep the rest of his squad fit.

Can't see a problem myself.

Me neither Les.

It's the Outrage Brigade at work again. See something on the internet and act outraged. Something must be done about them!

It’s not difficult. Either they’ve got a first team or they haven’t ffs.

Yeah they have. Minus three internationals that the rules say anyone in the lower leagues can postpone if unavailable on an International weekend. As not everyone in the lower echelons is hampered the same way it's deemed as unfair on teams hard hit.

The Premier League dont even bother as clearly they chokka full of Internationals.

The rest of the the team keeping their fitness up having a friendly instead of sitting about twiddling their thumbs. No biggie.

Can't wait to hear that they pick up some injuries from it

Anyone heard if we have we got a "behind closed doors" friendly Saturday ?

Quoted from promotion plaice

Anyone heard if we have we got a "behind closed doors" friendly Saturday ?

They're not saying.

Yawn......
So what if they had a friendly? Quite surprised we are not doing the same. I get the feeling Holley was quite relieved that they called it off


Anyway as was said it's an absolute outrage, someone needs to be sanctioned, if not hung drawn and quartered. IT must never happen again

A bunch of rotters and cads  ;)

[quote=170]Yawn......
So what if they had a friendly? Quite surprised we are not doing the same. I get the feeling Holley was quite relieved that they called it off.

Who's Holley, is it the new singing coach Buddy ?

Quoted from marinerdazza

It’s not difficult. Either they’ve got a first team or they haven’t ffs.

Your right, its not. Their first team is missing a quarter of its players. The rest, plus three second choice players are having a training match.

What's the issue here? I don't see what is wrong with this. The rules state if you have 3 Or more players on international duty you can have the game called off, they are well within their rights to have it called off and they are well within their rights to arrange a friendly for the other players. What's the issue??

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Me neither Les.

It's the Outrage Brigade at work again. See something on the internet and act outraged. Something must be done about them!

The only outrage is the fact that Mansfield were allowed to re-arrange a match because they had three players on international duty. If those same three players had been unavailable to play due to injury or suspensions , then would the EFL have sanctioned a re-arrangement of the game? I don't think so. Because Mansfield are using the day to play a friendly then that's fine by me , it's the original decision by the EFL that should be questioned.

Hasn't the 3 players on international duty thing been a rule for years?

Quoted from rancido

The only outrage is the fact that Mansfield were allowed to re-arrange a match because they had three players on international duty. If those same three players had been unavailable to play due to injury or suspensions , then would the EFL have sanctioned a re-arrangement of the game? I don't think so. Because Mansfield are using the day to play a friendly then that's fine by me , it's the original decision by the EFL that should be questioned.

Agreed, especially as none of the 3 call-ups affected the home nations!

They found 11 players to play in the checkatrade in midweek, is that competition so lmportant it was not allowed to be postponed?

Quoted from Les Brechin

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Agreed, especially as none of the 3 call-ups affected the home nations!

But why would playing for Scotland be under different rules to playing for Barbados?

I see Cheltenham v Yeovil has been postponed due to insufficient players lol.  I know 2 of there key players have had season ending injuries including DJ.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Disgraceful. Odds on the EFL let them get away with it. Over to you GTFC board.

Err What's the issue here?
Mansfield sanctioned to postpone,it's up to them what they do until their next game.
Nothing for the EFL to let them get away with.
All a bit snowflake tbh.

Quoted from rancido

The only outrage is the fact that Mansfield were allowed to re-arrange a match because they had three players on international duty. If those same three players had been unavailable to play due to injury or suspensions , then would the EFL have sanctioned a re-arrangement of the game? I don't think so. Because Mansfield are using the day to play a friendly then that's fine by me , it's the original decision by the EFL that should be questioned.

That rule has been around for yonks. What's the problem. If we were lucky enough to have 3 or more players called up for internationals I'd be quite happy we weren't being disadvantaged by it.

The rule also means there's less likelihood of clubs pulling the old Fergie routine of top players being injured and miraculously recovering once the international window has passed.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

The rule also means there's less likelihood of clubs pulling the old Fergie routine of top players being injured and miraculously recovering once the international window has passed.

Ah yes. Ryan Giggs has probably already managed more Wales friendlies than he played in!

game postponed,end of subject. why make a topic,its fact,get over it, end of.

Quoted from marinerdazza

In case you hadn’t seen this. Beyond words. That club is an absolute shitshow.

https://www.mansfieldtown.net/news/2018/october/stags-to-play-blues-in-friendly/

Get a frigging grip man, it was a friendly so the remaining players plus probably fringe players had a bit of game time.

As for someone complaining about the twatatrade, how many teams play their main squad, we don't.

It’s quite liberating going against fishy opinion for once. Still not seen anything on here or elsewhere that’s made me change my mind. A shithouse club.

Kissy

  :K)

Personal opinion is that if you call a game off for the call-up reason then it's a pisstake to organise another game, especially if you've turned a team out for Checkatrade.

I accept that this rule has been around for ages but it all seems a bit subjective to me. I don't recall any Premiersh*t games having to be re-arranged because a club has players who have been called up in the African Nations Cup! Is this a FA rule or a EFL rule?
As far as Mansfield are concerned, good luck to them as I'm sure in their position we would have done the same. OK, so the arrange a friendly with the remaining squad , so what. When all is said and done it is only a glorified training exercise.

I wonder if those good folk at fifa might have something to do with the rule as it's a designated international week on their calendar.