RULES, regulations and bureaucracy have been my bugbear this week.

At the start of the season I cancelled our first match at Little Hulton because the ground was unfit.

I did not know at the time that games could be rearranged.

After that we rearranged another match for last Sunday.

On Tuesday night at 5pm one of my players, Abdul Mulla, got in touch with me to say he was on the ground and was wondering where everybody was.

The fact training does not start until 6.30pm might be the reason! But at least the lad's keen.

After training the Sunday XI selection committee picked the teams.

Billy Schofield was not available as he had agreed to take charge of the under-12s inter-league team – a more suitable person you could not find – and Jack Stanley was also unavailable as he had been selected for the u14s inter-league team. We did manage to get an 11 though.

The next day I got a call from my club's administration officer who had been told our opponents had already claimed the game.

Apparently we had not rearranged the game early enough and the opposition could not get a team.

As we gave them more than three weeks' notice I am confused by this.

League officials have since emailed to say they will send the club some handbooks containing the rules so this matter would not occur again.

Another matter which has come to mind this week is the criticism some people make on social media.

I am a regular user of Twitter and express my views, mostly on cricket matters.

I do so in a positive or constructive manner and if I am ever in the wrong I hold up my hands.

The mindless 'trolling' of people through social media is a cowardly act.

An attack on me is water off a duck's back but there are others for whom it can have catastrophic consequences.

If those people who criticise have so much spare time why don't they do something positive instead of hiding behind anonymity and abusing people who are doing more than they could possibly comprehend.