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I didn't know that. I have my fingers crossed for them,
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I didn't know that. I have my fingers crossed for them,
dejavuatbtn
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Just shows that the FA haven't got all the dots joined up. If they had a central database of players banned sine die and it was checked when the player is registered for a club then no problem. The FA appear leave it for the club to find out - but how? So if a player doesn't disclose it then this type of thing will happen. Grossly unfair on the club but what the hell can they do about it? Sue the player?
AZ Gull
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Difficult to disagree with that. In the Aryan Tajbakhsh case I mentioned, Enfield Town missed out on the Ryman Premier play-offs because his two previous clubs that season had not entered data correctly and had misspelled his name. In fact, the matter only came to the FA's attention because of the diligence of the Enfield Town secretary who reported the discrepancy as soon as he found it - Enfield Town’s play-off dream hangs on FA ruling over points deduction
Even at Premier League and Football League level, if you look at the disciplinary pages on the FA website you will see multiple entries for bookings/cautions for the same player under different names (for instance, Lucas Joao and Lucas Dos Santos Joao at Blackburn; Tyler Forbes and Tyler Hornby-Forbes at Albion at non-first team level). It is a pretty sorry state of affairs that at a time when there is so much money in the game, the governing body can't even provide a modern, accurate, comprehensive database system for the disciplinary status of players at all levels of the sport.
Eagle Slayer
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So Tranmere would not have gone up anyway as they finished 2nd
dejavuatbtn
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We had a similar situation at our junior football club when a parent went ballistic when her son didn't get a 5 year loyalty award. Turned out he had changed his name and this level of detail wasn't known by our secretary. We sorted it out, but just shows how easy it is to get wrong.
AZ Gull
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Are you a Heath fan [MENTION=34987]Conelli98[/MENTION] or just taking a passing interest?
Hmmm...more than a interest! I don't like the way that The Sussex FA or many FAs run their counties! Do many old boys at Culver road that only think of themselves and don't move with the times!
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
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How?
Teams that finish 3rd play once
Teams that finish 4th play 2 matches or 3 (2 legs vs winner of 5th & 6th place play-off?) What if they only missed out on 3rd by a couple of goals?
Teams finishing 5th or 6th may also only be a point or 2 behind the 3rd placed team but have to play what? 3 (3 one off games), 4 (2 x one off game and 1 x 2 legged match) or 5 (1 x one off and 2 x 2 legged matches) games compared to third placed who play just once - If so, what chance do they have with all these extra fixtures? - whats the point, you may as well just promote the 3rd placed team
Why not simply have a bit more of a break between the end of the regular season and the start of the play-offs, (say an extra week or fortnight more rest) - thus allowing all players to rest a bit prior to these competitive fixtures?
Also regarding weakened teams, what if there is a run away team in third? - why wouldn't they rest players if they can't be caught with several games to go?