Got to back the league on this one. Rules are rules, if they let u off because of your sons illness then every time a club got fined for not attending they would use a similar excuse.
At the end of the day how hard is it to get someone to go to a meeting? If you can't get a committee member or a player to go then there's always SOMEBODY that will go, even of you phone another team and ask if they are taking two guys, one of them could have represented you.
Also, Wattie, your response of 'what's your point?' shows you in your true light. You think your ballingrys answer to Al Capone!