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Random Irritations

Orikoru said:
I understand that, we ourselves have a squad of about 25, but it's the same 25. In this case this difference was staggering, the first time we played them it was mostly 18 year-old lads that we dominated. This time, a totally different bunch of varying ages, most of whom were capable of playing about 3 divisions higher than us. This club is in our division (bottom division of Harrow Sunday League) and has only achieved 3 points all season. Then they turn up for a cup game with a team as a good as that? It didn't add up at all.
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Doubt there's much you can do now mate, leagues don't tend to bother too much with this sort of thing unless you have some hard evidence. May have been wise to have taken some snaps of the opposing team but that's hindsight for you 🤔
 
Orikoru said:
I understand that, we ourselves have a squad of about 25, but it's the same 25. In this case this difference was staggering, the first time we played them it was mostly 18 year-old lads that we dominated. This time, a totally different bunch of varying ages, most of whom were capable of playing about 3 divisions higher than us. This club is in our division (bottom division of Harrow Sunday League) and has only achieved 3 points all season. Then they turn up for a cup game with a team as a good as that? It didn't add up at all.
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This is the bane of all Sunday leagues. We had same issue when I used to help run a team played a team in our division one week we were top and they were bottom we battered them with double figures, following week we played them in the cup with 14 different players who were a different class and wiped floor with us. They went on like that all season and finished bottom of the league without a win and barely a goal scored, yet they win the Cup beating teams in divisions well above them by huge scores.. League didn't do a thing about it.
 
Beezerk said:
Doubt there's much you can do now mate, leagues don't tend to bother too much with this sort of thing unless you have some hard evidence. May have been wise to have taken some snaps of the opposing team but that's hindsight for you 🤔
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I agree that there's no chance of proving it. I hope we'll just write something in our report that we have to submit, and it most they might keep an eye on this team going forward. I know what you mean about taking photos, but you don't really want to be that sort of team on the day do you?

Wolf said:
This is the bane of all Sunday leagues. We had same issue when I used to help run a team played a team in our division one week we were top and they were bottom we battered them with double figures, following week we played them in the cup with 14 different players who were a different class and wiped floor with us. They went on like that all season and finished bottom of the league without a win and barely a goal scored, yet they win the Cup beating teams in divisions well above them by huge scores.. League didn't do a thing about it.
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Yeah, maybe taking advantage of different rules for different competitions. Another classic is when you're playing someone's reserve team, and their first team has no game that week. Strangely the reserves suddenly start to look a lot better.
 
Orikoru said:
I agree that there's no chance of proving it. I hope we'll just write something in our report that we have to submit, and it most they might keep an eye on this team going forward. I know what you mean about taking photos, but you don't really want to be that sort of team on the day do you?


Yeah, maybe taking advantage of different rules for different competitions. Another classic is when you're playing someone's reserve team, and their first team has no game that week. Strangely the reserves suddenly start to look a lot better.
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In our case it was our version of league Cup and rules were had to be same registered squads of 18 players with 1 emergency signing allowed in the day.. Yet they had 14 different players half of which didn't know who each other were and were calling each other by there numbers
 
Pathetic Shark said:
Apparently it happened in the Premier League on Sunday. Chelsea turned up with 11 nobodies and got turned over 6-0 having lost 4-0 two weeks earlier. Yet in between, they beat the bottom team in the league 5-0.
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I think I know what happened here. It happened to my old hockey team when we got promoted to a regional, north of England division. One of the other teams in that division had a cracking team but a number of them didn't want to travel 200 miles for a game, be away all day. They would play the home games, largely win them, but the 2nd team lads would fill the team for the away matches and get stuffed. We would only play each team in the division once so if you got them at home you were fine, away you were in trouble. Perhaps the Chelsea stars don't like travelling :D?

(I can't believe that as an Everton fan I'm laughing at any other club at the moment but hey, that's football)
 
Orikoru said:
Another classic is when you're playing someone's reserve team, and their first team has no game that week. Strangely the reserves suddenly start to look a lot better.
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You want to play rugby then when that happens! We played Henley 4th's once, 5 of their first team were banned from the previous weeks match, but because the 1st team were national league, the 4th's were in a regional league, these 5 were allowed to play. Safe to say we got battered, both the score and physically! We were leading 3-0 at one point, we ended up losing 127-3. That was a fun saturday!
 
Rooter said:
You want to play rugby then when that happens! We played Henley 4th's once, 5 of their first team were banned from the previous weeks match, but because the 1st team were national league, the 4th's were in a regional league, these 5 were allowed to play. Safe to say we got battered, both the score and physically! We were leading 3-0 at one point, we ended up losing 127-3. That was a fun saturday!
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Used to happen all the time when I played rugby. Normally when all the lads came back from university at the end of term and decided a run out for the thirds would be a bit of fun.
 
GB72 said:
Used to happen all the time when I played rugby. Normally when all the lads came back from university at the end of term and decided a run out for the thirds would be a bit of fun.
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Oh yeh, forgot about the games over xmas etc! All the uni lads back! Same down here!
 
Rooter said:
You want to play rugby then when that happens! We played Henley 4th's once, 5 of their first team were banned from the previous weeks match, but because the 1st team were national league, the 4th's were in a regional league, these 5 were allowed to play. Safe to say we got battered, both the score and physically! We were leading 3-0 at one point, we ended up losing 127-3. That was a fun saturday!
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Luckily I'm very much not a rugby man. :sneaky:

This team that we played, back in October they lost a game 17-2. One month later they won a game 15-0. Funny that nobody thought to look into that at the time. And no, I'm not making that up.
 
We had it in the British baseball league in 2000. We needed to win one game of a double-header to clinch the Division 2 title and found that the team we had beaten easily earlier in the year now had six GB internationals out that day as part of a "roster sharing" arrangement. We still nearly turned them over but it got pretty heated in the second game when the other team's manager started gloating about the situation and might as well have painted a target on his head as every pitch started going straight at him. Still bugs me to the day what happened as it was so totally wrong. Oh well.
 
Watching utube videos, golf, photography, piano playing etc and the presenter starts with "hey, what's up guys" - Morons!
 
In my tennis playing days, I thought it funny that I, and my brother, and the other 2 guys who'd normally play in the 1st team league match didn't get notification of the next fixture. It turned out that the scumbag who ran the team picked 4 ex members who had played in the past but moved away, to play a match we otherwise would have lost
 
Orikoru said:
I understand that, we ourselves have a squad of about 25, but it's the same 25. In this case this difference was staggering, the first time we played them it was mostly 18 year-old lads that we dominated. This time, a totally different bunch of varying ages, most of whom were capable of playing about 3 divisions higher than us. This club is in our division (bottom division of Harrow Sunday League) and has only achieved 3 points all season. Then they turn up for a cup game with a team as a good as that? It didn't add up at all.
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Hmmm, put in context, sounds highly dodgy. Can't you put a complaint into your FA?
 
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