Bumbles
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The 'permit' situation with the U16's has certainly brought up healthy discussion.
There are plenty of good posters on here......so let's see if we can come up with some ideas, on how to regulate it (so as it is not abused).
To say get rid of them altogether is pretty naive.....but maybe between us we can come up with some rules and regs with having them, over and above what is in place now.
Which is no more than five players playing eight games each plus finals.
Lets go...............................
I am no expert here but im willing to have a crack, here are some idea that may (and i stress that word!) work.
1. teams may only permit players when struggling for numbers ie. not having a full 18 man side
2. permit players may only be used when every registered player on that team's list is in the side, and they still fall short of making a full side.
3. permit players may only contest a finals series if they have played the required minimum amount of games for that team to be qualified (i am not sure of this number of games sorry..)
just a couple of ideas, they may be way off the mark they may sound ok but feel free to comment and add ideas..
while im here i would also like to add that if a side is constantly struggling for numbers and therefore using permit players, they would probably be more unlikely to contest finals anyway.. something that seems the major gripe about permit players (using bighawk as an example!!)
cheers and good posting