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Posted by Bink286 on 30-10-2013 07:34
#13

Dear Mr. Bunter.

I sincerely wish you all the best with your new team. Sadly, in all the excitement, you failed to notify your cup singles opponent that you wouldn't be turning up to play this week, and our player took time out from his family to travel to the venue and wait for some considerable time for you before returning home, albeit grateful for the easy passage into the next round from what had promised to be a quite a tough fixture.

Unfortunately a lack of communication/consideration and observance of some sort of sporting etiquette is all too common place in this league. One of our other players experienced a 1.5 hour journey on Monday's disrupted train service to his opponent's venue, then after waiting for a previous game to finish, had to wait a further 45 minutes while his opponent left to do a 'delivery' (5 minutes he was promised it would take) and wasn't best pleased with the entire experience, complaining of a lack of heartfelt apology, let alone any offer to be gifted a win/frame for his trouble.

Perhaps we should put forward a resolution to the committee to increase the fine for non-notified no shows to compensate players as well as the league coffers, in an effort to improve courtesy standards?