#bleedredandblue wrote:The permit was approved by both leagues that's why I don't understand how they can even consider doing this.. gepps cross has obviously spat the dummy and now get points for a game they didn't even win? It's a joke!!!! And how you can sit here saying your happy to take a win any way you can, even under these ridiculous circumstances just shows the character of your football club
I don't believe it was initiated by Gepps Cross, it was a league investigation I understand, Gepps Cross have just been the fortunate beneficiaries.
Your anger is probably unfairly misdirected in this case, best to direct it at the decision makers if the wrong call has been made.
Then again, the responsibility has always been with the club to ensure players they field are fully qualified and entitled to play. My own club had a situation many years ago where we had a player cleared from a league club, play a number of games and then a club in the country claim he was still registered to them. The league had permitted him to be cleared and play to that point, and it had been a clerical error on the part of the SFL and Port Adelaide, yet we had the results of 6 games awarded against us, dropped out of the finals as a result and missed out on winning a 3rd premiership in succession (made up for it the following season though), because it was our responsibility to check that all rules had been followed.