Re: Unacceptable bias : Thu May 05, 2011 4:51 pm
Offside Monkey wrote:
I don't know, I need someone with real authority to clarify it for, as its drving me crazy. I agree with you that in the spirit of the game the decison given on monday was correct and that the above situation would be farcical, but I just can't shake the fact I think the smallprint of the rules says otherwise.
Maybe it's that I don't read so well, but the written rule on the previous page didn't clarify it either way.
Maybe it's that I don't read so well, but the written rule on the previous page didn't clarify it either way.
I got the info for Rogues from a mate of mine who refs at all levels (Not SL yet but he has run the line and done in goal touch judge etc at SL Games) as I like nearly everyone else thought it would be Saints Head and Feed.
He says as you have alluded to that if the player is in touch when he touches the ball then it is deemed that the ball has touched something "Dead" and that it is Head and Feed to the Defending team.
The same rule however does not apply in the "In Goal" area and if the ball is rolling in the field of play and the Defender touches it whilst he has a part of his body dead i.e Foot/Hand then he is deemed to have made it dead and it's a drop out.
Apparently they changed the in goal rule because of players straddling the dead ball line and touching the ball in the in goal to make it dead, they didn't change the touchline rule.
I agree with your sentiments about the "Spirit" of it but apparently thems the rules.
To be honest though I'm not sure how a defending team can benefit in many ways from this rule though and the scenario seems highly unlikely?
Although I suppose when a ball is bouncing towards the touch line and there is an attacker bearing down, rather than shepherd the ball out of play and risk the attacker getting it or touching it whilst in the field of play giving head and feed to the attacking team he could stand out the field of play and straddle the line and touch it? This would give head and feed to his/defending team.