Forest Green Rovers ordered to replay fa cup game


FGR had a player that's on loan but they hadn't received written permission from the parent club to play him in the competition. I don't know whether the parent club were happy for him to play and this lack of permission was an oversight.

In Barnsley's case, the player was ineligible as when the initial game was played he was on loan an York, recalled and then in the starting XI for the replay. To be eligible for the replay, he needed to be available for the initial match - which he wasn't cos he was on-loan elsewhere. I guess it's to stop clubs loaning or recalling players for replays.
 
FGR had a player that's on loan but they hadn't received written permission from the parent club to play him in the competition. I don't know whether the parent club were happy for him to play and this lack of permission was an oversight.

In Barnsley's case, the player was ineligible as when the initial game was played he was on loan an York, recalled and then in the starting XI for the replay. To be eligible for the replay, he needed to be available for the initial match - which he wasn't cos he was on-loan elsewhere. I guess it's to stop clubs loaning or recalling players for replays.

Exactly. The comparisons to Barnsley is wide of the mark as it's 2 different situations.

Barnsley played someone who played in the qualifying rounds with his loan club before he was re-called back to Barnsley therefore cup-tied.
FGR played someone who didn't have the permission to play the game from his parent club.

The FA consider the former more gross breaking of the rule than the latter.
 
Exactly. The comparisons to Barnsley is wide of the mark as it's 2 different situations.

Barnsley played someone who played in the qualifying rounds with his loan club before he was re-called back to Barnsley therefore cup-tied.
FGR played someone who didn't have the permission to play the game from his parent club.

The FA consider the former more gross breaking of the rule than the latter.
I don’t think that’s exactly right. The player hadn’t played for York in the Cup so he wasn’t actually cup tied but he was still registered as on loan at York on the date of the first round, and you can’t play a player in the replay who wasn’t available as your player for the first match.

Emphasises the point that there are levels of ineligibility that feeds through to punishment though. Play a suspended player or a cup tied player and you’re out no question. Barnsley’s case is similar as their player could never in principle have been eligible for the replay. FGRs is arguably less serious as their player was in principle eligible but they didn’t have the paperwork correct to make him eligible in practice. Still think they’re very lucky to get a replay though.
 
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I was at the game, and though what Aldridge did was wrong, it was one of those games where we were just never going to score.
We hoyed the kitchen sink, the fridge freezer and the washing machine at them that day.

That was definitely true, but if I remember rightly the substitute who shouldn‘t have been on cleared the resulting free kick. Then when the ref finally realised what was going on there was quite a long delay whilst it was sorted but of course no extra time was added for that.

The ref seemed to be the only person in the ground who didn’t know what was going on. We were all going ballistic, our bench were doing the same, and Aldridge who had been animated all game was suddenly sitting down with his arms folded.
 
That was definitely true, but if I remember rightly the substitute who shouldn‘t have been on cleared the resulting free kick. Then when the ref finally realised what was going on there was quite a long delay whilst it was sorted but of course no extra time was added for that.

The ref seemed to be the only person in the ground who didn’t know what was going on. We were all going ballistic, our bench were doing the same, and Aldridge who had been animated all game was suddenly sitting down with his arms folded.
Horrible bastard Aldridge, just looked scummy
 
Wasn't the reason Ji not being eligible down to an FA cock up though and not us?

It was something to do with his international clearance not being completed, but I don’t remember where the fault was. Obviously we should have checked it.

We played Dominic Matteo when his loan hadn’t been registered too, but that was in the league.
 
That was definitely true, but if I remember rightly the substitute who shouldn‘t have been on cleared the resulting free kick. Then when the ref finally realised what was going on there was quite a long delay whilst it was sorted but of course no extra time was added for that.

The ref seemed to be the only person in the ground who didn’t know what was going on. We were all going ballistic, our bench were doing the same, and Aldridge who had been animated all game was suddenly sitting down with his arms folded.
Agreed, and even though we probably wouldn't have scored had we played until midnight, I personally still think the game ought to have been replayed, but because there was so little of the game left, when the transgression occured, the FA probably decided against awarding a replay of the game.
 
I was at the game, and though what Aldridge did was wrong, it was one of those games where we were just never going to score.
We hoyed the kitchen sink, the fridge freezer and the washing machine at them that day.
I was there and the guy they subbed on who should never have been on the pitch cleared the free kick we put into the box after the sending off. We had a player running in behind him who would have had a clear shot at goal.
 

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