Not "Deaf", exactly...just tired of the same old excuses by teams thinking somehow there problems are worse than anybody else's. I know several 11 man teams who would LOVE to have such "low" numbers as mid to upper 20's. I have no problems with Wakefield, specifically. Never been there, never going to make a special effort to do so. Pretty much a non-entity in my mind. The excuse making and trying to justifying just gets so incredibly tiresome. You know who you are. Everybody knows who you are. All those wins you're being "crucified" for? Those dare games that should never have been played. You keep any real Class D teams out of the playoffs? Affect any seeding that might have allowed a home game, or matchups that could have let a team win a game or two? Cause any injuries to an actual team in the class, in a game that shouldn't have been played in the first place? You get off on beating up Class D schools with roster numbers approaching 30, fine, whatever. Don't care. Just quit pretending you're doing it for some other reason than to gain a competitive advantage, ok? No team should be able to "opt down". IF it's a numbers requirement they should only play each other. No school that's excited about bullying little schools should ever be allowed to affect that school. Maybe these C2's having to forfeit should be able to demand an 8 man game, instead?