Invicta Dynamos went into their weekend game with four players suspended as a result of last weekend’s fiery clash with Streatham.

Head coach Karl Lennon felt some of the punishments were unwarranted, leaving them depleted for Sunday night’s league game against Romford Buccaneers that the Mos lost in overtime. Two of his young stars are now set to miss out on playing Streatham again in next weekend’s South League Cup semi-final.

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A total of over 70 games’ worth of suspensions were handed out to players of Streatham and Invicta after their match last Saturday was abandoned following a fight at the end of the first period.

The Mos had already announced the departure of Josh Condren following their own investigation into the trouble and he was hit with a 12-game ban for “slashing an opponent with violence”. Captain Harrison Lillis picked up a four-game suspension for fighting and an additional two-games for surpassing the 10 penalty point threshold.

But it was the four-game suspensions for Matthew Bell and Brandon Chard that left Lennon baffled and the club have appealed - at some cost. They had no word back from the league over the weekend and the Mos’ head coach doubts he will get an answer before their cup double header against Streatham this coming weekend.

Lennon, who has already accepted his own team’s role in last weekend’s unsavoury incident, said: “We have appealed some of the decisions and we will fight our corner on it because we don’t feel like we have been justly treated in this situation.

“We had no response from the league over the weekend and that for me is poor showing. It is a bit of an unprecedented game this year for us, and I think the simple fact that there are over 70 games of bans handed out to the players tells you exactly the importance of dealing with this properly.

“It feels to us like they have taken the penalties that were given on the match night and issued those but they haven’t looked at the footage that is available to everyone, not just us, it is all on social media. Everyone can see who was fighting and when but they haven’t included some of those guys in the punishments, very weird. We don't know why, we haven't heard.”

For Streatham, they had six players hit with suspensions, including a 20-game ban for Josh Martin for “checking behind with force, causing injury.”

Even Lennon felt that was a bit harsh.

He said: “We have seen the subsequent punishments from their side and I don’t think they captured everything, I am sure they missed three or four players that were involved in this incident and didn’t get any punishment. They were able to play on the Sunday against us last weekend and then subsequently twice this weekend. A few of those guys should definitely not have been playing this weekend.

“One of their punishments is excessive, 20-games for me was a bit over the top, I don’t understand the logic of giving a player effectively two-thirds of a season out for what was a poor hit. I am not sure it is an intentional injury hit, but it is unfortunate. Does it deserve punishment? Yes. Does it deserve that much? Probably not.

“Twelve games for Josh (Condren) was probably right, it could have been higher based on previous punishments. The two that were really disappointing on our part were the ones for Matty and Brandon because in that situation they didn’t do anything wrong, they were there trying to stop it from escalating. They got pummeled on by a number of different players and it was through no fault of theirs that it happened, we feel that punishment for those two was extreme, it didn’t need to be the case and that meant they all missed this weekend.

“Two young lads there have done fantastic for us this season and they are going to miss a semi-final because of no fault of their own, more than anything the fault of the protection of the officials on the game night. That is really sad, they don’t deserve it.”

The Mos only found out the punishments late on Thursday night and their roster was light for Sunday’s NIHL South Division 1 match against Romford.

A back-and-forth match ended 6-6. Romford started overtime with a player advantage following a penalty for Invicta late in the game and with 4 on 3 they quickly added a winning goal.

Lennon said: “We got given a very soft penalty and they had the extra man. With that bigger space and a shorter amount of players it is very difficult and we struggled. They scored pretty quickly to get the goal and that was it, it was done.

“I thought we had a very poor night, we conceded some very soft goals and when I say soft goals they were soft in terms of defensive errors but extremely good finishing by their forward players, in particular one who I think scored five on the night, Brynley Capps, who is a phenomenon this year, he’s been putting up a ridiculous amount of points for a 16-year-old, he ran the show for them.

“Irritatingly we didn’t deal with his threat throughout the course of the night. We have done that well against some of the better players in our league this year and we didn’t do that at all well.”

Invicta’s place in the cup semi-final was secured when Solent were beaten by Streatham, meaning the Gillingham side claimed the fourth-placed spot in the standings. The home leg is on Saturday (5.45pm face off) before heading to Streatham on the Sunday.