I'm I reading too much in this from the clearence page:
Burnside Coastal Spirit Fullen, Mike Cancelled 2013-05-30 Burnside FC TWENTY 11 Fullen, Mike Pending 2013-06-27
I understand the original request was declined as some gear wasn't returned. Perhaps they found out they couldn't enforce the return of gear unless he was actually registered with FC as opposed to Burnside? All sounds a bit daft just for Knocker to play his normal 45 mins a season with Coastal over 45's