Week 16 Predictions

There are a number of forum members who would do well to get off the moral high ground that they are perpetually camped out on. 

At the end of the day, neither Ampthill nor Scottish have done anything wrong/broken any rules. I remember well the season that Scottish survived relegation (the last time there actually was relegation) at the expense of Richmond who went down. Scottish had multiple DR players in their ranks that day and attracted considerable criticism as a result. 

However, if the rules/system allow for so many DRs, and by using them you will avoid relegation, of course a club will lean that way. To say otherwise (whichever club it may be) is fanciful at best, and outright d1shonest at worst.

For as long as tier 2 operates as a humdrum of both fully professional and semi-professional sides, there will be a constant requirement for the semi-pro outfits to utilise DRs to greater and lesser degrees. Were they not to, there would most likely be even greater disparity in match day scorelines each week.