Quote ="Jemmo"I thought I'd seen, failure to be able to name a squad of 17, as reason for playing a DR player after the transfer deadline; but can't find it now. I may have dreamt it'"
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I think you must have dreamt it Jemmo. When Workington beat Fev they had their fitness conditioner on the wing and named an injured player on the bench to make up 17 names so that they didn't get a fine. The injured player wasn't even stripped ready to play. It happened when we were in Championship 1 as well when we lost at Gateshead in a mid-week game where we only had 14 players and named 2 injured players to make up the 17 on the team-sheet.
The Fev match was before the deadline but the Gateshead match was the next to last match of the season.
There is a mention in one of the rules that says in order that
a DR player can play in the play-offs he must have played 6 games before the deadline (25th July) and goes on to say that a club can seek dispensation if the DR player would have but couldn't make the 6 games due to injury. It doesn't mean he could play until the RFL look in to it.
