The FA Cup ruling

But they haven't. It's happened to other League clubs twice in over a hundred years. We can cry all we want about the rule being obscure or unfair, but the simple fact is that every bugger bar us manages not to break it, year after year after year.
It's the sort of thing that is rare even at amateur level, where paperwork is literally true and undertaken by volunteers.

 

Just what i thought

 

I would think it would be a club secs job, back in the day, John Dennis said Michael Spinks was all over the rules and regulations and when a new one came out he would be at the club early doors and be going over them with a fine tooth comb.

 

I think club secretary job is included in CEO job namely Khaled

 

Since Whitey was moved up the ability and consciousness of admin has dropped off. He would have seen and shouted up.

 

That’s ok then just cos we have made a mistake it’s ok cos other clubs have too. ‍♂️

 

If the player himself, his teammates and manager didnt realise. Most of us fans would be unlikely to know as well. (That's not a criticism btw). I guess it would apply to most clubs players and coaches. One thing it has done, is put the rest on their toes.

 

Exactly. As I posted earlier today, most pros and managers will have a reasonable idea of the eligibility rules, but will quite rightly defer to an expert who'll have the final say. Very similar to a banking compliance project I'm working on providing the text. I've got a good idea of what will and won't fly legally, but as my degree is in English rather than Law, someone else gets the final say on what gets published.

 

I knew that you can't play a cup replay if you sign a player after the first game. What I didn't know because I'd not paid any attention was that marsh was recalled after the first **** show.

Embarrassing that a multi million pound turnover professional outfit didn't know the rule though.

Then again I guess that's what happens when you employ inexperienced people in key roles throughout the club.

 

In April the boardroom who's who page listed
Club Secretary & EDI Lead Officer: Eleanor Dobson

By October that role had been removed

 

The clubs twitter admin certainly does block people.

 

I've seen screenshots previously where the clubs twitter has blocked several people, just because they have unblocked them now doesn't mean they haven't blocked people before.

 

Unlike the league where players have to be at a club by midday Friday to play Saturday. In the FA cup you'd got to be at a club for 2 weeks..
An old rule to stop 'ringers' turning up on the day and playing

 

Just two instances where its happened, because its empty now doesn't mean they've not blocked fans previously in recent times.

 

Sorry, I wasn't attempting to name and shame. I actually thought that she'd left the club so was trying to say who used to be in the role as her name has already been removed from the site in October not after this mistake which pointed towards her being a former secretary and the post being vacant when it happened.