Orange CYMS Pink are locked in a row over points with the code's organising body, after being forced to move up from C-grade to B-grade after this year's season started.
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With the B-grade season starting two weeks after the C-grade league CYMS Pink claim they've been placed at a further disadvantage by not being compensated for those two games, with the former competition's remaining sides playing and receiving points from those rounds.
The protest CYMS Pink lodged with the Orange and District Football Association to be awarded catch-up points for the two games has been knocked back.
The ODFA has told the Central Western Daily CYMS Pink earned 14 points from four C-grade games, which they kept in the move. It said the points were earned against weaker opposition than their B-grade opponents which was sufficient compensation.
It is a pretty big disadvantage to be missing two whole games worth of points.
- Ben Miller, CYMS president
However, CYMS president Ben Miller said the side had been unfairly treated and should be further compensated.
"It is a pretty big disadvantage to be missing two whole games worth of points in a season that is only about 14 games long," he said.
Miller said the situation was made worse by the ODFA allowing a Cowra team that was moved down from B-grade to C-grade in a swap with Pink to keep the points it gained from playing two extra games in B-grade.
He said CYMS haven't not received an explanation for the ODFA's decision.
We did question this nomination right from the start.
- Brett Hazzard, ODFA administrator
"We've asked for a sit-down meeting with some of the committee members so we can have our opinions heard," he said.
Miller said the team was initially annoyed about the forced move but accepted the decision believing they would be on a level playing field.
"No points have been awarded to accommodate the difference (in number of games) and no extra games have been offered to catch up. I just can't imagine what the reasoning is," he said.
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ODFA administrator Brett Hazzard said the ODFA believed the Pink team, which he said largely consisted of players who were in last year's B-grade grand final side, should not have been in C-grade.
"We did question this nomination right from the start," he said. Hazzard said with the 14 points from C-grade CYMS Pink started their B-grade campaign "one point out of third place" and, if awarded catch-up points, they'd have been closer to the top of the ladder.
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