Billy Dodds has hit out at SPFL double standards.
The Inverness Caley Thistle boss was without 10 injured players but a request to bring back players on loan in the Highland League was rejected by the SPFL.
Last December St Mirren found themselves in a similar position due to positive testing and self-isolation rules. When they requested the postponement of a midweek game against Celtic the SPFL broke their own rules by allowing the Paisley side to bring back players out on loan at Lowland League clubs.
Dodds fielded players that weren’t ready to play in yesterday’s match against Ayr United. After losing 2-1 he told The Sun:
We asked the SPFL to let us bring players back from loans at Highland League clubs, which is what St Mirren were allowed to do against Celtic last season when they had a lot of Covid cases, but they came back and said no.
I find that a bit embarrassing, to be honest. We have boys on the bench who are first year pros. That can’t be good for them, physically or mentally. They’re not ready to be on the bench, it’s not fair to ask them.
It does seem that the SPFL make up the rules as they go along, fielding ineligible players can result in a 3-0 defeat or in the case of Hearts in the 2018 League Cup they had two points deducted which allowed them to qualify from their group.
Call me paranoid, but I’m really not shocked that the SPFL were happy to help out a team playing against Celtic and not help a team playing against different opposition
If only you were playing Celtic, the spfl and he rest of the masonic cabal would have allowed loan players return. Possibly offered you transport to bring them in and round up any other out of contract players that might have done you a turn, SPFL rules adjust to suit ! Stinks.
Didn’t they draw 2-2?
Still ironic Dodds quoting rules at the SFA
They didn’t lose 2-1. Drew 2-2
Dodds getting a taste of the medicine every other club in Scitland have been taking for God knows the last number of years now he tastes it doesn’t like it and wants to make a song and dance about it.BOLT.
How are the younger players meant to learn then ya we nyaff. Play them yer no actually fckn Brazil are ye.
Wee Billy must have missed the ludge meeting where it was all sorted out.
That’ll teach him.
When an EBT recipient like Billy boy Dodds talks about double standards in our game of football in Scotland ,it makes me want to regurgitate my breakfast ! Bent is bent ! When you receive £190,000 in an illegal ,tax dodging scheme ,you are in no position to lecture on the rights and wrongs ,are you ? The gall ofa cowboy like Dodds is degrading.
Fielding ineligible players should indeed result in a 3-0 defeat. However, if a certain club’s players are merely ‘imperfectly registered’ then everything is sound as a pound…but not the pound handed over to David Murray by Craig Whyte.
Hail Hail.