cup-tied

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cup-tied

adj
1. (Team Sports, other than specified) (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
2. (Team Sports, other than specified) (of a player) unable to play in a cup tie because of some disallowance
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However, they go into battle minus the injured Lewis Vaughan and cup-tied Craig McGuffie.
Carlisle City host Hebburn Reyrolle and Red House Farm play Northbank Carlisle, while in the quarter-finals of the Bay Plastics George Dobbins League Cup, Shankhouse sweeper Richie Atkinson could return to a squad missing a number of key individuals including Chris Rue and Marty Roper, who is cup-tied, against Whitley Bay A, and Rutherford have a tricky tie against promotion-chasing AFC Newbiggin.
BARROW v MACCLESFIELD Garry Hunter should return for Barrow and James Owen is in contention following a heart scare but Neill Byrne is cup-tied. Macclesfield's Nat Brown is back in training following a month on the sidelines and Kieran Murtagh has served a ban.
Striker John Griffin and defender Luke Paskin - who are both cup-tied in the FA Cup - will feature tonight, while the unlucky Sean Geddes misses the Stevenage tie through a onematch suspension so he will face Rugby.
"I'm going to have to look into the possibility of getting someone in short term - and somebody who's not going to play in the FA Trophy because a lot of the managers I'll be speaking to won't want to release any players if there's a chance they could be cup-tied," said Young.
The Gwynedd club are without cup-tied duo Tommy Mutton and Richard Williams Cooke, so Gethin Edwards, who scored twice for the reserves in midweek, comes in.
And with centre-back Lewin Nyatanga cup-tied, Foster's absence from the FA Cup semi-final is a huge blow to manager Simon Davey's plans.
Jamie Clarke, Keith Graydon, Richie Pitt, Shaun Bell and a cup-tied Andy Appleby are all missing and Collins awaits news on the fitness of Johnny Butler.
Andrew Davies will be back in the squad after being cup-tied at The Valley, giving McClaren plenty of options at the back.
Paul Merson, the Walsall player-manager, has been told by Preston North End that they do not want the Frenchman to be cup-tied.
Defenders Ashley Pringle (back), Danny Hicks (work commitments) and James Beauchamp (cup-tied) were sidelined for Tuesday's 2-0 Birmingham Senior Cup exit at Rushall Olympic along with midfielder Dean Wellington (cup-tied) and leading scorer Craig Pountney (work commitments).
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