here’s how the desperate rags will play it. They’ll argue they don’t have a free slot and will just flatly turn down any suggestions for any new date proposed
“then the Management Committee shall use its reasonable endeavours to rearrange the fixture for the earliest reasonable opportunity (including but not limited to arranging for the match to be played at a neutral venue). Where the Management Committee determine that the fixture cannot be rearranged the Management Committee shall have the power to declare that the fixture shall be abandoned. Where the Management Committee declare that the fixture shall be abandoned, the Club shall forfeit the fixture, pay the opposing Club’s expenses in accordance with Rule 5.8 and the opposing Club shall receive a bye into the next round of the Competition”