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Sun Apr 02, 2006, 03:00am

GarthB

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Originally Posted by CoachJM

As reprehensible as the player's actions were, a ruled forfeit of the game does not strike me as the appropriate penalty.

A forfeit is the appropriate penalty when a team is either unable to (e.g., insufficent eligible players to field a team) or refuses to continue playing the game. That's not what happened here.

JM

Do you feel that those are the only grounds for a forfeit?

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