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scarletman
Veteran Married with Kids - Close to Bankruptcy Joined: 18 August 2004 Location: Heol-y-Cyw Status: Offline Points: 12299 |
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A potentially huge can of worms being unleashed here. This puts more interpretation pressure on officials in an environment where instant decisions have to be made in an ever shrinking time frame. The law for penalising "accidentally on purpose" collisions is already available for officials to manage out of the game (10.4.m) "Acts contrary to good sportsmanship. A player must not do anything that is against the spirit of good sportsmanship in the playing enclosure."
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aber-fan
Veteran Joined: 25 October 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 18857 |
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Fair enough - I accept that it's very difficult to judge intent. It was interesting in a recent TV programme that a former Wales player (Kingsley Jones, maybe?) said apropos an ambiguous situation - which I think was a player attempting a charge-down, catching the kicker slightly late - that he (KJ?) always knew what he was doing in those situations in his playing day - implying that so did the player concerned. The ref chose to believe that the late contact was accidental, and didn't wave a YC. On that occasion, I was with the former player - the guy could definitely have pulled out. But it's all a matter of opinion!
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