human_torpedo wrote:Before I get howled down by the masses - I agree the SANFL have been spineless through out this whole ordeal since the Reserves sides came in and I don't like that they are in..
However, surely logic prevails in this situation.. CEY has played 2 AFL games all year, and 18 SANFL games. People cant feel hard done by that he is playing this week. He has played all year, he was a suspension replacement and would have been dropped this week if the AFL hadn't stupidly scheduled a bye after round 23 and we had AFL finals to watch this weekend.. I know its the rules that you are ineligible if you played AFL in the last round, but I think CEY qualifies for the extenuating circumstances in this case.
Seedsman, Sloane and Smith would be different cases as they all played majority of AFL, Seedsman only having played a couple of SANFL games. I don't think they should play this week
So what you are saying is, accordinding to the rules, assumingly rules known by the AFL club, he is not eligible to play. Other players, for whatever reasons, who find themselves ineligible to play just have to accept this because their club would assumingly also knew the rules and have to abide by them. But this player should be allowed to play because even though his club know the eligibility rules they decided those rules don't apply to them and shamefully sanful agree.
Logic doesn't come into, no more than sympathy or any other emotion. That's why there are rules, to take away decisions based on emotion. The bloke isn't eligible end of, and therefore shouldn't be playing, just like any other non AFL player.
