Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup
Gary Stohrer and Shaw Lane will be playing the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup next season
Shaw Lane AFC have been fined £1,420 and warned about their future conduct over their controversial withdrawal from the Senior Cup final in April.
Shaw Lane were meant to face Frickley Athletic in the Bramall Lane final on Tuesday 26th April, but after the Evo Stik League ordered them to play their play-offs semi-final on the following night, chairman Craig Wood pulled his team out of the competition.
He said it was unfair for his club and their semi-professional footballers to have to play two nights running. He also had concerns over the welfare of his players.
Frickley have been awarded the trophy after the Sheffield FA hierarchy met for the final time to discuss the issue.
Shaw Lane were fined £1,000 – the additional £420 being the Association’s expenses – after an appeal brought the figure down.
It means Shaw Lane can still play in the competition next season, a decision that will upset many people as there was a call for the Sheffield FA to ban them from it.
Hahaha absolute joke! Basically saying do what you want
We do what we want…..
Good for the Chairman! Who in their right mind expects footballers to play 2 consecutive nights at the end of a season? (As well as probably working inbetween). How is that fair to anyone? Perhaps whoever sets the fixtures might think about them more seriously next year. That’s what the anger should be about – not a Chairman looking after his players and making an example of the incompetence of the fixture setting itself. Talking of banning them is downright ridiculous. If they get injured through overuse in a short space of time /lack of recovery time and can’t work – are the FA going to pay their mortgages? No.
I suspect the rest of the players who made up the Shaw lane squad and not seeing much first team action would disagree with you, they would have been itching To play in a prestigious final and stadium, surely its the pinnacle of any non league player to play in such games. I think a one season suspension from the competition (at the very least) plus the fine would have been more appropriate. Sends the message out that anyone can do it and get away with it. just my opinion.
Absolute joke what is a grand to Mr Wood, integretary of competition gone possibly forever, family/community club my backside
Harry – fair enough the shedual was a joke however he agreed to it and then pulled out the day before, messed a lot of proper non-league fans about and denied lads who worked hard all season the chance to play in a final been a chairman of a football club is more about just looking after that club you have a responsibility to the whole game, and no one ever died from playing 2 games of footie on consecutive nights fair enough it’s not ideal and the SHFA are also to blame but to pull out like that the day before was wrong and has damaged the competition and the reputation in Shaw Lane first thing anyone says if you mention them is oh so they turned up did they? Made his own club a joke as well as local football
They don’t have many admirers,even less now £.
Agree totally about 2 games in 2 days being a non starter especially a play off game and final of such importance. But the fact remains that Shaw Lane are renowned for signing a ridiculous amount of players on their books each season and surely a second string side plus 5 first team subs could form a team for a final?
The fine imposed doesn’t even equate to a weeks wages!
The fiasco caused to frickley the day before the final beggars belief. Very selfish people do this, btw they got there change the day after .