Rotherham penalty announced before weekend [Update: 3pts deduction]

[GT49er]

Rotherham penalty announced before weekend

Not before time. Should have been done last week.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

So what other clubs have been found guilty of this and deducted 3 points ? i seem to remember Sunderland getting away with the same thing after their lawyers blamed the lunar cycle and a plague of locusts

It's teams that win that get points deducted in a League game. If they lose, it's just a fine. It was only 5 years ago when it happened to us the last time - Hartlepool.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Ease of getting there perhaps. But I quite enjoyed Rotherham this season. Good club. Shame about Evans, but you can't expect perfection.

Read the Argus for an ex Crawley player's opinion of Evans in his autobiography.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/cra...tar_lifts_the_lid_on_playing_for_Steve_Evans/

 

[Ernest]

I hope it is only a fine

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Rotherham cheated. The points should be deducted. We should get them instead, but won't.

You're right,we should but we won't,The Albion should insist that the records for this season show that we've played one less game than the other teams.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I hope it is only a fine[/QUOTE

If it's a fine, Millwall will appeal. And rightly so, they played a player who wasn't eligible

 

[spence]

I hope it is only a fine

Well that would send out the wrong message.

Has to be 3pts and nothing else. We should also get +1 added to our GD

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Read the Argus for an ex Crawley player's opinion of Evans in his autobiography.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/cra...tar_lifts_the_lid_on_playing_for_Steve_Evans/

Seems a bit harsh to have a pop at the clubs most successful manager.

Getting them up to league one!

 

[desprateseagull]

Either they fielded an invalid player, or not. Why aren't player status checked, by FA, BEFORE games?

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Either they fielded an invalid player, or not. Why aren't player status checked, by FA, BEFORE games?

Why should the FA check every player in every league. The clubs sign up to the rules they have the responsibly to make sure they are operating within them.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I hope it is only a fine

Why do you think that Ernie

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

It must be a 3 point deduction, surely.

If we were still in the relegation mix, we should really have got an option of a replay as well, but that's just a waste of time now.

A 3 point penalty would leave :

Rotherham 43 41
Millwall 44 40
Wigan 44 39

which leaves all to play for, and interesting for the rest of us.

I think Rotherham will win their game in hand v Reading anyway.

 

[lawros left foot]

So what other clubs have been found guilty of this and deducted 3 points ? i seem to remember Sunderland getting away with the same thing after their lawyers blamed the lunar cycle and a plague of locusts

Was complicated, si?

 

[gripper stebson]

Just imagine if you were the person responsible for the admin error at Rotherham. Could send them down. Grim!

 

[crookie]

In my Sunday league it is very simple. If you field an ineligible player, for whatever reason, the other side is awarded a 0-0 win, unless the other side won the game of course !! The worst result they can have is a 0-0 win awarded. I'm surprised this is not standardised, as the league follows FA regulations generally.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Either they fielded an invalid player, or not. Why aren't player status checked, by FA, BEFORE games?

I thought we played loads of invalid players this year. They certainly played as though they were crippled.

 

[BensGrandad]

Thankfully not really our concern now but needs to be sorted very soon for all concerned.

 

[Ernest]

Why do you think that Ernie

I'm a SPORTSMAN and they beat us fair and square so shouldn't be relegated on a technicality

 

[Prince Monolulu]

I'm a SPORTSMAN and they beat us fair and square so shouldn't be relegated on a technicality

I accept that they could have beaten us with 9 and we would not have hit the target until midnight but roolz is roolz. It was not 'fair and square' as one of their players should not have been on the pitch.

 

[Ernest]

I accept that they could have beaten us with 9 and we would not have hit the target until midnight but roolz is roolz. It was not 'fair and square' as one of their players should not have been on the pitch.

Tevez set the standard for points deductions