FGR cup game replayed…What’s the difference ??

We should've gone for a replay, chuff "doing the right thing". When has that ever got us anywhere, apart from the club getting laughed at for being "tinpot"?

 

I don’t think we should be criticised for accepting our punishment and facing the consequences. The front pages of today’s newspapers are full of someone who won’t do that.
The FA should be criticised for kicking out a club for playing their own player, eligible at the time of the actual game, while allowing FGR to stay in for seemingly playing someone else’s player, not eligible at the time of the actual game.

 

Not sure it’s that classy to throw away potential income of over £100k. I know we’d more than likely have lost at Plymouth but we could possibly have earned £41k for winning the first round and another £67k for the second. Seems bonkers to me and suggests we don’t give a hoot about the FA Cup.

 

I just find it proper odd what has happened now! It doesn’t make sense at all!

 

Keeping a low profile for the other issue.

 

I agree.

 

If this is keeping a low profile, they're not doing a great job of it are they?

 

Didn't he say both teams wanted a replay, Horsham were keen for the extra money but the FA wouldn't have it.

Now I'd get our lawyers involved, where's Conway? We're probably shitting ourselves over the FA charge and don't want to poke the hornets nest.

 

Agree. Although I was trying to work it out - isn’t one an EFL issue, and the other an FA issue?

 

Plymouth ? a few folk seem to be taking that we would have beaten Sutton as a given!

 

It shouldn’t be allowed IMO.

Wrong is wrong. It should forfeited. FGR should be the same too.

That’s life.

Horsham were only thinking of the money - I can guarantee if they would have drawn Man Utd at Old Trafford they wouldn’t have wanted a replay against us. They’d have been licking their lips at a cut of the gate receipt over there.

 

That was my reaction. Why appease the FA when the other charge, regarding ownership, seems to be an EFL matter?

 

Well, it makes sense in the context that there is a precedent of the FA ordering a replay on appeal. We were either too lazy or incompetent to ask for one or we just were deliberately happy with being expelled. I know for a fact the FA couldn't believe we didn't appeal and thought it was really odd. See the thread below.

FA Cup | The Barnsley FC BBS Fans Forum

 

I tend to agree. If you make a mistake - and both Barnsley and FGR did - then you have to hold your hands up and take the same punishment. The lack of consistency does tend to fuel those who think that there is a conspiracy against us.

 

There's no conspiracy here, just an omission to appeal, either deliberate or accidental. The FA have applied entirely consistent standards with previous precedent.

 

For those who think we should have appealed. On what grounds should we have appealed?

 

Naivete and dimness

 

Tinpottedness

 

1) That precedent has been previously set that the appropriate punishment is to replay the fixture - see Chesterfield v Stockport in recent years
2) That the error was made without malice and through an accident where procedures are now demonstrably in place to avoid it happening again

I'm not being funny, it's not difficult. This is as basic as it gets. Tens and potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds of income spunked up the wall because the leadership are inept and demonstrably don't understand football's governing structures. Then they'll wring their hands and say we have to sell our young talent for the umpteenth time.

 

It seems very rare that teams get kicked out of the FA cup so replays for ineligible players must have happened plenty of times over the years.