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Have gone over this with some of our officials and the first thing that needs to be dealt with is to make sure you don't in-bound the ball with too many or not enough players. After several substitutions make sure you count extra careful to not get into these situations. That being said there is no rule that says this is a tech but there is no rule that says it isn't. Obviously the team that is playing with four is not gaining an advantage, but they are breaking the rule that states they must start the game with five and if they have no legal subs to replace disqualified or injured players they must continue with fewer than five. This is a good situation for something to be in the book to cover this. What if a team has legal subs but just decides not to use them but later on they decide to use them. I'm of the thought to give them a tech and then get the sub into the game and continue. I am also open to discussion in the other direction as Mr Rust has stated.
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