Awarding clubs league points.

[blue til i die]

i doubt it, they are free to do it now since they wont get any objections about it, maybe they just did it to show everyone how much of a shambles the FAI really are.

[stann]

Just been informed at our appeal against point deduction and fine arising from
the "player registration" issue was heard at 4pm yesterday ... and we won

That is all

The story is as follows (per official communication to the club).
The successful appeal was not based on the ineligibility of the player in question, but rather on an irregularity in the diciplinary committee proceedings.
The decision should have been made by means of a simple majority decision with no abstensions allowed. This was not fully understood it seems, and a member of the committee with what might have been percieved as a vested interest abstained (in fact absented himself), and it is on this basis that Athlone's appeal was successful.
Personally, it doesn't matter to us anymore so I couldn't care less, but it's harsh on a chap that the correct decision was reversed by him trying to do the right thing.

[Longfordian]

So basically as was pointed out the FAI didn't know their own procedures?. Marvellous, not that it matters.

[stann]

So basically as was pointed out the FAI didn't know their own procedures?. Marvellous, not that it matters.

No, it was posited that the FAI don't know their own rules, with the suggestion that it was the rules of eligibility that they got wrong. It wasn't. TBH this seems to be a rule that, if the person in question had followed it there would in all likelihood have been a greater cry of foul play.
It doesn't matter a whit to us now, but I could see that rule causing real uproar (not a few Dundalk fans on here and Keely) if it involved a team in the running for something, as basically the rule compels everyone on the disciplinary committee to vote on a decision of this nature even if they are from the area of one of the parties involved.

[higgins]

Why select someone with a Waterford connection for the 3 man panel in the first place?

Had these two points decided the league it would have been a disgrace.

[Rovers Maniac]

So can somebody tell what the league table will be please.

[noby]

Shels are a point ahead of Dundalk. That's all that matters.

[mediahack]

So can somebody tell what the league table will be please.

I'm sure the FAI are rewriting it as we type!!