Carlisle had to pull out of their Regional 2 North fixture at Northern on Saturday because of front row issues.
It means Northern will be allocated five points while Carlisle will have a five point adjustment on their record, leaving them with just three for the season.
Carlisle, without a win all season, are heading for relegation with five games still left to play.
Tom Graham was ill and unlikely to have been fit enough to play on Saturday while a prop had to have an urgent MRI scan on his spine. A third front rower was struggling with an injury.
The second team went to Windermere without a hooker and fielding two young props, neither of whom would have been safe to scrum against Northern.
Carlisle’s only relative success was a draw against Keswick who are battling to avoid joining the city side in the drop.
