Quote Originally Posted by Dreamtime Yowie View Post
You must be with valo if you?re defending it. Ok if it?s not about winning then why would a kid that?s one of the better players in his OWN age be dropping back down? And why would valo make him a captain of a team he?s biologically not string enough to play in? You?re joking right? Plus he was at the elite system in jets. They are cheating the system because he?s smaller and so are some of the best players in the world mind you.
And I know lots of people that have an issue with it. I?ve seen 2 or 3 ppl comment about it in here and I?m the 4th plus what the chatter is around the grounds.
You seem to know him, tell me you don?t think he?s more than a standout in his own age. Poor form by valentine, just like the code they share a field with who got suspended for a year for stacking footy teams.
I have no idea how you got this reply from my post but let me clear it up.The example I was using was from another club using the rule.I know that kid involved and seen him play.In his case it looks like a fair use of the rule.I have no idea about the kid at Valentine and far from defending it,I said it seemed like an abuse of the rule if hes playing both grades consistently.I asked how he can be deemed too small for 16s if hes clearly getting picked in 16s.Thats why I said it seemed like and abuse.But I dont know any more about the Valentine situation.I was just asking questions to help me understand.If lots of people have an issue with the Valentine situation and its influencing results then you need to contact the governing body to get some sort of clarification on how this is allowed to occur.A simple fix would be that if a club/player is invoking the rule then that player is banned from playing up for the season.