An abort­ed Ex­tra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al Meet­ing (EGM) of T&T Su­per League (TTSL) on Thurs­day, has left mem­bers de­lib­er­at­ing on the way for­ward.

The EGM was called specif­i­cal­ly to elect re­place­ments for then-pres­i­dent Lee Davis, first vice pres­i­dent Ed­di­son Dean and or­di­nary mem­ber Nicholas Gopaul who all re­signed three weeks ago af­ter be­ing ac­cused of not car­ry­ing out the in­ter­ests of their mem­ber­ship.

Davis had said he thought the mem­ber­ship was on the same page fol­low­ing con­ver­sa­tions to chart a way for­ward.

Thurs­day's EGM was a re­sult of a col­lec­tive de­ci­sion by more than 50 per cent of the mem­ber­ship to en­force sec­tion- 13.5 of the bye-laws of the TTSL which states: "In the case of the ab­sence or in­abil­i­ty to act of the pres­i­dent, the first vice-pres­i­dent shall fill the po­si­tion un­til the next gen­er­al meet­ing, when a re­place­ment will be elect­ed for the re­main­ing pe­ri­od of of­fice. If the of­fice of the vice pres­i­dent, as­sis­tant sec­re­tary and/or or­di­nary mem­ber of the Board of Man­age­ment be­comes va­cant, the Board of Man­age­ment shall fill the po­si­tion(s) in ques­tion un­til the next Gen­er­al Meet­ing when a re­place­ment will be elect­ed for the re­main­ing pe­ri­od of the of­fice."

Sec­tion 14.10 al­so quotes: "If more than 50 per cent of the po­si­tions of the Board be­come va­cant, the gen­er­al sec­re­tary shall con­vene an EGM in or­der to hold elec­tions for a new term. If the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary is not avail­able or fails to con­vene the EGM with­in the pre­scribed pe­ri­od, the Emer­gency Com­mit­tee shall con­vene it.”

Guardian Me­dia Sports learned that fur­ther de­lib­er­a­tions be­came nec­es­sary be­cause of dif­fer­ing in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the bye-laws. For in­stance, mem­bers be­lieve that since there were six mem­bers on the Board of the TTSL, the res­ig­na­tion of three mem­bers or 50 per cent, does not re­quire an EGM for elec­tions, but rather calls for the re­main­ing 50 per cent to take over and man­age the af­fairs of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

"In this case, the sec­ond vice pres­i­dent- An­dre Bernard is sup­posed to step up to fill the roles left by Davis and Dean. This means Bernard is the one to make pro­pos­als and call meet­ings, which in­clude an AGM to elect re­place­ments for the va­cant po­si­tions," one mem­ber ex­plained af­ter the abort­ed EGM.

"So I will be wait­ing to see what pro­pos­al Bernard will be com­ing up with and how he in­tends to lead the su­per league for­ward from now on," the mem­ber said.

For the EGM, two mem­bers were sched­uled to face off for the post of pres­i­dent, name­ly Ke­iron Ed­wards, the cur­rent pres­i­dent of the East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (EFA) and Jame­son Rigues, a for­mer pres­i­dent of the TTSL who was al­so man­ag­er of top club Guaya Unit­ed.

The po­si­tion of first vice pres­i­dent was al­so up for elec­tion with on­ly Michael Du Four of Cunu­pia FC con­test­ing it.

Rigues al­so told Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day that a num­ber of oth­er is­sues con­tributed to the EGM be­ing abort­ed at the vir­tu­al meet­ing. "There were is­sues where mem­bers who were not sup­posed to vote showed up to vote, peo­ple in the vot­ing booth and some clubs not be­ing able to vote. The fact that some mem­bers were not com­pli­ant but showed up to vote was an­oth­er is­sue al­to­geth­er," Rigues said.