Players and parents/carers will remember that the Falcons’ cup game on 4 November against Trowbridge Town Youth (B) had to be postponed. This was due to the fact that we could not raise a team as several Falcons players had other sporting commitments that day.
Because, according to Mid Wilts League rules, games can only be postponed if a pitch is unplayable, or if players are unavailable due to injury or “organised” school activities, the League has today advised me that it has deemed our postponement of the 4 November game as unacceptable and has therefore awarded the game to Trowbridge Town Youth (B). The Falcons are, therefore, out of the cup for this season.
This is an unfortunate outcome for all of the Falcons team - who had a good chance of progressing in the competition - but the League’s decision is entirely consistent with the rules and understandable.
It is recognised that several of our U10 players have other sporting interests besides football. This situation does highlight, though, that while we have quite small U10 squads, we are reliant on all players making themselves available to play for their team if we are to avoid similar problems and punishments in future. To aid parents’ planning, the Falcons’ and Eagles’ future fixtures are shown below:

Falcons’ fixtures:

Eagles’ fixtures:

(Note: please be sure to check information announced at training and/or in U10s News updates on this web site for details of any changes to the above, which may occur.)

I am trying to recruit a few more U10s to bolster the two squads and so hopefully avoid such problems in future. Nonetheless, could all players please make themselves available for all games whenever at all possible, so we can avoid having league points deducted, which would happen if we had to postpone another game because our players aren’t available due to other sporting commitments. 
Should, however, you decide that your son cannot play in any of the two U10 teams’ remaining fixtures, please advise Fabio Baldan (U10s coach) as soon as possible (07877831553), so we are aware in plenty of time of any potential problems.

Thank you. 

Tony Day, Co-chairman LAYFC