Cheers hftb - sounds like he is just making it up as he goes along! Again, from the GSFL- SP site:
field of dreams wrote:I note under "Rules taken from Minutes" on SP:
10. A Team is permitted to have two runners provided they are both nominated on the Teamsheet and that only one runner is permitted on the field during play at any one
The team sheet even has 2 spots for runners to be named! All Bays did wrong was send them both out at the same time.
As for the player being interchanged from the forward pocket, whilst it may have looked like that from the caravan, (or from the oppositions view point which was the plan) what happened was a player came off the field near the coaches boxes, walked around the boundary and back onto the field in the pocket....just to shake a tagger. He was not replaced or in effect interchanged. Exactly the same thing can occur with a steward in place - just don't tell the steward of a change!
Even the junior colt 19 on the field after the break could happen just the same - steward or no steward.
Just leave it alone.