I think some board members have selective memory, it was
only a couple of years ago that the identical situation happened.
CF gave Olympic an “ok do it” ruling and they played the
player, only to find that this ruling was later appealed to NZF who then overturned
the CF ruling. Why was Olympic not promoted to a 11 team league?, hmmmm
That was quite different in the fact that it only involved the two teams in the promotion/relegation game with Olympic well aware that the ruling was going to be protested after the game yet still decided to take the risk. It didn't involve a third party who were already in a position of relegation and escaped relegation by from what I can gather crying that it was unfair on them.
Seems pretty madness to me, CF need to grow a pair and relegate NW and not inconvenience all the other teams in the relevant grades involved.