Newport Astroturf™ League

Recently there have been incidents of abuse both on the turf and online aimed at referees, myself and Mel have spoken about the issue and following on from a recent life time ban issues to a player for an after the match abusing of a referee we have decided to extend the policy to the web forum.

This is obviously a similar situation to that of 'Real' football where players and managers have to be careful of what they say in post match interviews as they would expect to recieve some ban or fine from the FA.

We dont want to take the fun out of the forum but in most cases referees are not on the site to reply and in the past even if they have been, it has escalated the issues, by all means, in your match reviews if you feel hard done by then mention it but DO NOT name the referee, any abuse towards a referee will be reported to Mel on his request and will be treated as a 2 strike situation, first offence will bring a warning, 2nd will bring a ban, the length of which will be decided by both myself and Mel.

Please do not ruin the forum for everyone, I have never felt the need to issue rules and dont want to start now.