wilsdenrover

We registered 23 players at the start of last season. 12 of those remain at the club. That sort of turnover cannot be healthy (with the exception of agents’ bank accounts)

Despite the name of that website, I think he’s wrong. The regulation very clearly states the time period and when that time period starts from. I’m perfectly happy to be the one who’s incorrect but I just can’t see how I can be misinterpreting the wording.

I wonder if this restriction is to ‘encourage’ clubs to use their ESC places on players they intend to go straight into the first eleven. The two other ways to convert to a non ESC continue beyond the initial 12 months - maybe Toth will eventually qualify under one of those.

They will think of something.

Matches when a player is injured don’t count towards the calculation. Here’s the link as requested (it is the GBE rules in their entirety): https://www.thefa.com/-/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/registrations/gbe-2025-26/fa-mens-players-gbe-criteria-202526.ashx

Nope - see below from the FA doc:

It’s not the last 12 months, it’s the 12 months from the GBE being granted.

Yes, as that part of the regulation says play 50% of the minutes (and play in 25% of the games) within the 12 months following the date from which he was granted his GBE. We announced his signing on 30th August and he was on the bench the following day so his year runs out at the end of this month - and he’s currently on 6 matches out of a possible 42.

I said it earlier, but I’m going to say it again anyway 😁: It is not reasonable to expect Toth to meet the (minutes played) criteria to convert, in fact i believe it is impossible. (and less likely for Kargbo = highly unlikely imo).

or was it deliberate 🧐🧐😁

Perhaps BRFCS should have its own celebration.

I’ve never tried it so don’t know if the court has a ‘block’ but there are certainly buttons to allow me to unmute my mic or enable my camera.

I have them now and then. I try not to make a habit of it though 😁

Has the forum considered giving the club a deadline after which they’ll publish the minutes (elsewhere) themselves?

Maybe. The good news is they don’t need a court case to be able to send money across. The bad news is they don’t want to meet the conditions which allow them to do so.

Or the new members simply had a different opinion on what should and shouldn’t have been minuted and what ‘tone’ should’ve been emphasised more. Without us seeing both versions of the minutes (which I’m sure we won’t) it will be very hard for us to come to any sort of conclusion.

Judge has finished for the day (nothing more to be said…)

It would be a different matter but that would involve collusion between the club and every member of the fans’ forum. That feels highly unlikely to me.

I can’t see how you can ever get full agreement as people can read the exact same thing and interpret it in different ways.

I don’t agree with Elliot’s assertion that Toth will be able to use the ‘playing minutes’ method of converting to a non ESC player. This part of the regulation is below, to me the crucial words are ‘within the twelve months following the date on which he was granted a GBE’:

I see the rules around ESC players is another thing Elliott doesn’t understand properly.

If the case is ever heard again, do we think me turning my mic on and chanting Venkys out would count as contempt of court?? 🤔🧐

I popped out for half an hour and now they’re on case number 97!! We seem to have moved onto the supplementary list (which starts with the above number) after lunch. We were listed as number 32 of 83 of the advance list - it appears they gave up on this list at lunch time. Who knows where numbers 84-96 are! I presume the case has been adjourned again but didn’t see/hear that happening.

I’m not worried. I’m more concerned as to whether the chap from the last case is going to get his bananas back before they go off.

My post might not have been entirely serious 😁