Totally agree with ChopperNZ that “CF need to grow a pair and relegate NW and not inconvenience all the other teams
in the relevant grades involved.”, I think the chances of this happening is slim because they have dug a hole for themselves by being to PC.
The problem how I see it is, when CF office makes a mistake in interpreting the regs, the board have left themselves open to either being PC and accommodating the mistake or more protests to NZF.
Irrespective if Olympic were told that a protest would be forthcoming, they also were told “it was ok to play the player” same as the situation here.
End of the day it was a protest to NZF that has cause this problem for the board.
I hope because of how the board has handled this situation, they now do not come out with a policy, something to the effect, “if the office F**ks up then no club will be disenfranchised”.
CF have twice in the past few years, given clubs a ruling that has been overturned by NZF and in both cases involving the regrading regulation that I was under the impression had been sorted out once and for all this year.
It does not come down to how well the regs are written, its all down to the person interpreting them, the interpretation would more likely be given by football person and not a lawyer, but protests to NZF are not decided by football people, but by lawyers.