Hydel still miffed
Coach believes ISSA should have done more to protect team
Published:Wednesday | October 11, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer
HYDEL MANNING Cup coach, Devon Anderson, said the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is largely to blame for the school exceeding the number of transferred players they registered and used in the competition.
Based on ISSA stipulations, schools are allowed only three transferred players for their quota, but according to Anderson, the overstep was caused because ISSA didn’t insist on them identifying the three chosen players from the list of players submitted.
Anderson, said Hydel thought they were given the all clear when they were not asked to make a determination on the players, all of who were issued competition identification.
Anderson said this could have been avoided had ISSA, who knew of their excess quota submission, asked them to declare the players they intended to use.
“According to ISSA, we have too many quota players,” Anderson told The Gleaner. “But you are the organiser and you clear the players we registered.
“You identified the quota players and say all of them are good to go and gave all of them IDs and say they are good to play.
“But now hearing all of this. So they have stopped four of our youths from playing,” said Anderson.
“If I submitted a list, you must look at it and say even though we have seven under the quota only three can be used and I would have pick the four out of that.”
The players in question have been suspended indefinitely, but he pointed that they are still awaiting a hearing to determine the legitimacy of their players before any are allowed to re-enter the competition.
ISSA president, Keith Wellington, said that Hydel were given a form to declare the players they would be using but that they never completed it before the first match, in which they used all seven transferred players.
“Hydel got a form that should have been completed at least 24 hours before the (Kingston College) game, where they should have printed the match card with the players 24 hours before the game. But what they did was provide the match card before declaring who the players were,” said Wellington.
He further explained that: “The players of Hydel, each of them were eligible as an individual. The problem is they are transfer students and there is a quota as to the number of transfer stundents (that can be used). There is a limit that you can use in any one season.
“At the start of the season, for the first game, before declaring which players will be used for their quota they went ahead and used all the transfer players. So it’s not that any of the players were ineligible as individuals but the school used more than what was allowed.”