doedin wrote:It does make a mockery of the game and more so for ticket paying supporters and subscription paying TV viewers. Surely they should be allowed to bring in suitably trained props from either Academy or linked players from affiliated clubs from the Newcastle area i.e. our equivalent of a Heriots or Watsonians?
Weather looks like we are in for a lot of kicking and lots of knock ons and a tight forward battle ... unfortunately.
They can:
3.4 In order to reduce the possibility of uncontested scrums, each club may also nominate further front row players, referred to as Emergency Front Row players, who may be registered with EPCR on a match-by-match basis provided that all necessary details of the players have been submitted before 12 noon (GMT) on 20 September 2018. The provision for the nomination of Emergency Front Row players is not intended to allow clubs to improve the quality of their squads, and is designed to cater for illness and/or injury in the relevant positions. The players added to squads will typically come from a club’s academy or similar.
Issue seems to be they don't seem to have anyone available that they submitted the details for before 20/9/18. Which is a bit bizarre. In recent seasons Glasgow have had a couple of Hawks' props and Academy players that they could have called on in an emergency.