The only way any dispensation should be granted is if the said player will not play any part in the season. If Gale or Brown play during this season at any point it makes a farce of the system. As there is no difference to me to having not played a game before injury to then make it back take part in the same season for one game or playing one game and being ruled out for the rest of the season?
Maybe we should have said Green and Bowden got new injuries in pre season training then so at least we could sign a replacement until they make it back?
However my view is whether you suffer an injury preseason or one game in you should not get any dispensation that way everyone knows the rules and its unfortunate but that's why clubs have rosters not just 19 players.
The sport maybe in to a new season but the same crap eminates and stinks the game out. Taylors suspension of 3 games is one of the biggest jokes of all time and on a par as big a joke as the lenient way O'Loughlin was dealt with and only getting a 1 game ban for taking Annakins head off in 2016 funnily enough which was also graded C?? Go figure.