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Why you cannot formally complain about your child's team selection: what the complaints process actually covers, and what your real options are when you believe a selection was unfair.

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An Australian parent sits in a dimly lit lounge room at night holding a phone, the screen showing a half-written email. Their expression is frustrated but resigned. A football kit and boots sit on a chair nearby.

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The email is half-written. It is eleven o'clock at night. The screen shows half a draft of a formal complaint about your child being dropped from the squad, and you have not slept properly in three days. The kid did not make the squad. The kid played well at trials and the coach picked someone else and you have a list of reasons why the decision was wrong.

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