Archive For The “Rules & Regulations” Category

Off-side or not?

By | July 25, 2011

Are the backs off-side or not? Currently, and it has been a trend all the 2005 season, commentators have been urging referees to get non-balling carrying teams to get on-side at the secondary phases. It is my belief that in fact these players are not off-side. The speed with which the modern player can run […]

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Legalising current practice

By | July 25, 2011

Based on the Experimental Law Variations that have resulted from the Stellenbosch Workshop, and further to Matt Peter‘s article in the last Newsletter, should we have another view? Should we look at what is currently happening, at what is difficult to do and what is frequently unsafe to do and remove them, allowing players to […]

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