I think this clears things up

[californiahoop]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/swansea-city-fc/2011/03/10/the-qpr-story-explained-91466-28313125/

"And the 24-year-old was given the go-ahead to continue playing in the Championship despite this after they gave the green-light for QPR to buy-out his third-party contract and make him unreservedly a QPR player."

If we where given permission to continue playing him, we can't be docked points?

[Shania]

we can according to some be docked points for the matches he played for us in september and October last year.

[acricketer]

Found this snippet on Clives site...

It looks like the club have tried to take preventative measures, because if the rule was introduced around September time, it coincides with when Alejandro Faurlin was injured at Ipswich away.

Faurlin didn't return to action for around a month and was an unused substitute against Norwich City at home, before finally returning to the pitch away at Swansea on 19th October, around the time he signed a new deal.

Perhaps he wasn't injured during this period and they decided not to take any risks by fielding him and prior to that, perhaps they have a case in the sense that The Football League did not have a rule in place, even if the FA did.

Could be that he didn't play any games whilst owned by third party