Rules have been clearly broken, they just happen to be on planet Smokey, not earth.

If Michael Dobson is allowed by the board to re-register then Rule C1:4:7 has been applied to the letter.
It couldn't be any more straightforward.

Rovers have simply requested that the board allow Michael Dobson to re-register.
If the board deny this request the rule has been applied to the letter and Rovers would then have a serious problem. This is unlikely as it has been indicated to Rovers that permission will be granted.
If the board allow this request the rule has been applied to the letter.

I know you're not stupid Smokey. I also know you're too obtuse to admit that black is black despite any evidence put before you.

im not arguing they will have done so, simply the obvious point that being granted dispensation to be allowed to break a rule, is breaking a rule with dispensation, and that simply a rule allowing for dispensation to break it is still broken if dispensation to break it is allowed. It is a fairly self-evident point.

We wont have broken the rule as the scope for a board decision is already written in the rule.

A board decision to grant dispensation from it. Which means it isnt being followed.

If HKA werent breaking it, they wouldnt need dispensation from it. Simply because it allows for dispensation doesnt mean that if dispensation is granted it isnt broken.

TBH this is all caught up in the language. The decision being sought (eventually) is not a dispensation or a "breaking of the rule", as it is foreseen in the specific clause. If the board refuse and Dobson plays/trains/whatever, then the rule will have been broken.

That is totally correct Chris would you like try and explain that to our one eyed Leeds friend.

Don't bother. He's well aware of it but will never admit it. I'm really looking forward to the day Leeds come to use this rule.
I'm sure it will then have been correctly applied (as everyone not on Planet Smokey knows it to have been this time).

Oh we all know that will be the case.
I just find it funny that even FC fans agree but yet Mr one eyed Leeds fan who in the past has said he is a solicitor/lawyer can't see it.
I hope to god I got that wrong and that he isn't a solicitor/lawyer or it will prove beyond any doubt that or legal system has gone down the toilet.

Hey don't include all Leeds fans! We don't all have the same hatred towards Hull KR as Smokey does! In fact most of us quite like Hull KR since you keep beating Hull FC!