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Nah, if our intention was to ensure that those kids couldn’t qualify for selection [for any postponement hearing] then we could have just left them at home and named a 4-man bench to make a point - the fact that we brought them with us and named them on the bench, imo, shows that we’ve genuinely made every attempt to fulfil our fixtures up until this point.
You might be right about Patino and Azeez - I haven’t checked the rules in that much detail - but, practically speaking, I don’t see how they can be looking at anything other than players who have been officially registered as first team squad members for the season? If they’re also looking at youth players who could potentially be called up and loanees that could be recalled then no club would ever have a case that they could make?
(Fwiw, I think all clubs should have been forced to turn to their academies and fulfil their fixtures, but there you go - the authorities opted for postponements instead and now they’re stuck with this current rule until the end of the season. If they change it now, after giving loads of teams an advantage, then the credibility of the competition is in tatters).