President Craig Davis said on Monday that Secretary Jeff Dean and Vice President Bob Martin had resigned because of the failure of the judiciary to take action over reports on a number of Portland players.

“I have also been told that my other vice president, Gary McCann is going to resign this week because of the handling of this incident by the judiciary,” Davis said.

“Furthermore I am only staying on because my club, the Kandos Waratahs are still in the competition.”

Davis said that he too would resign once Kandos’ season was over because of this Portland incident.

In addition to this incident the late ruling of a no try against the Waratahs in Sunday’s major semi final against Oberon has thrown the Mid West into further crisis and taken much attention away from what was a well fought encounter between the top two teams in the competition.

In Sunday’s incident referee Brett Masters ruled a no try after Kandos had made a 60 metre break to score a try next to the goal posts with less than 15 minutes to play.

Speaking to The Weekly on Monday Referee Masters said that linesman Doug Masters called that Kandos had made a replacement but that the player who was to leave the field had not left but was seen cheering the Kandos player who was charging to the try line.

“I did not see the replacement or the interchange as I was following the play and had to accept the call of the linesman who reported that Kandos had 14 players on the field,” referee Master said.

“After I heard the call from the linesman I did what I would normally do and that is let play continue until there was a tackle or the ball went to ground before taking the report of the linesman.”

Referee Masters said the incident that resulted in the ‘no try’ call is not the same incident referred to by unofficial Kandos reports of their No 13 being replaced by No 9.