Week 5 GASA Games

Well what a very exciting week of games. Multiple ejections and a 1 point win in the second game.
Ok so what really happened at half time?
A fight broke out with 12secs left in the first half. Lots of yelling going on and people hearing that the game was cancelled.
As of this year GASA has adopted a policy that games can be suspended for up to an hour before being cancelled. This allows time to resume games if conditions improve. The officials need to take the option of first suspending a game. So sorry to those who left after 20 or 30 mins of waiting and missed a good game of football still with both sides scoring well in the second half.
There was no doubt that what happened was a fight between players. Under NCAA rules striking or attempting to strike an opponent in a non-football manner is a fight and an automatic ejection. Also under NCAA rules players leaving the sideline to join in the fight are also ejected by rule. Some players from both sides made it past the officials while a small number were listed as entering the field by one official. Those players did stop and turn back to their sideline and did not pass the official so they dodged a bullet for not being ejected.
If both teams wanted to continue and the officials did not want to continue then the game would have been called after an hour delay and the scores reverted back to 0-0 and a no contest being the result. The points would have been split between both teams as a draw. This would have happened because half time had not yet been reached, 12 secs was left on the clock before half time.
In conclusion we all need to take something from this and learn from it. If you have any comments then please direct them to your club, league or email them to myself so that we keep rumour to a minimum. If you ask something it may well be possible to answer through the blog as someone else may have had the same question to answer.
Have a good week everyone.
Grant Martin