The future of Dynamos Football Club as an affiliate of the National First Division (NFD) is still hanging in the balance, despite the fact that the disciplinary committee of the Premier Soccer League delivered a sanction regarding their complaint against Bay United last Thursday.

Following the announcement by the league at the end of last season that Dynamos and Atlie FC were relegated to the lower division, the Giyani outfit lodged a complaint with the league soon afterwards. On their letter of complaint, Dynamos alleged that Bay United FC had fielded an improperly registered player in some of their league matches.

The matter was postponed numerous times before it was finally concluded last week.  During the sittings, Dynamos proved to the committee beyond doubt that the player who was registered as Realeboga Bolly Matlou was indeed not the said player.

The committee found Bay United guilty of fielding an unregistered player. Bay United were fined an amount of R300 000, R200 000 of which was conditionally suspended for a period of 12 months. Apart from the fine, Bay United were also ordered to pay the costs of all sittings in respect of the matter.

The sanction did not go well with the chairman of Dynamos FC, Mr Pat Malabela. According to him, the committee should have expunged the points in respect of the matches in which the player in question was fielded. He indicated that the rules were pretty clear in cases like this one, saying all clubs which were previously found guilty of a similar offence had lost points through expunction.

After realising that the sanction handed down by the committee does not include the expunction of points. Dynamos filed an appeal with the South African Football Association. The date on which the appeal will be heard was still to be announced at the time of going to press.

Should the appeal board rule that the points should be expunged, Bay United will be relegated to the Vodacom Promotional League, making way for Dynamos to escape the chop.