Normally I might agree with you, but you may have noticed that the club was shut down for months, it has been sold, staff were on furlough ....... AND these matters should never rely on the efficiency or otherwise of clubs anyway. This is 2020, the days of ledgers and fountain pens are sadly in the past.
Eligibility or otherwise need not be a matter of chance and the rules need not be complex or time-consuming. Team sheets should be transmitted online to the governing body before the game, a computer should immediately throw up any ineligibility, transmit that info in nanoseconds and this NEVER need happen. Online soccer games have thousands and thousands of players in their scope. They can immediately flag up which player is ineligible through cup tie, suspension, injury and prevent him being named on a team sheet. If online games played for fun can do it, surely properly organised elite sport can manage it?
And this comes to light within the slow-turning of football administration, and instead of moving quickly a whole week crawls by before the decision is reached that a replay is necessary .........? So the teams have to play midweek at the drop of the hat and again at the weekend and poor old Stockport are wholly innocent in this. They come through a crippling week against us lumping high balls into their box and then they get to play an EFL side two divisions higher in the next round .......... a couple of days after?
My entire childhood saw my dad running local football teams with such efficiency his teams were never caught out in this way. Of course even in the current circumstances someone should be holding their head in shame, but there is no need for it even to be possible, there is no sense behind the rule, there is no attempt to cheat or defraud.
The FA is a bunch of nice, honourable old buffers - a lot like me - but they need to get real and join this century, because they are allowing their major competition, the FA Cup to die.
Eligibility or otherwise need not be a matter of chance and the rules need not be complex or time-consuming. Team sheets should be transmitted online to the governing body before the game, a computer should immediately throw up any ineligibility, transmit that info in nanoseconds and this NEVER need happen. Online soccer games have thousands and thousands of players in their scope. They can immediately flag up which player is ineligible through cup tie, suspension, injury and prevent him being named on a team sheet. If online games played for fun can do it, surely properly organised elite sport can manage it?
And this comes to light within the slow-turning of football administration, and instead of moving quickly a whole week crawls by before the decision is reached that a replay is necessary .........? So the teams have to play midweek at the drop of the hat and again at the weekend and poor old Stockport are wholly innocent in this. They come through a crippling week against us lumping high balls into their box and then they get to play an EFL side two divisions higher in the next round .......... a couple of days after?
My entire childhood saw my dad running local football teams with such efficiency his teams were never caught out in this way. Of course even in the current circumstances someone should be holding their head in shame, but there is no need for it even to be possible, there is no sense behind the rule, there is no attempt to cheat or defraud.
The FA is a bunch of nice, honourable old buffers - a lot like me - but they need to get real and join this century, because they are allowing their major competition, the FA Cup to die.