A recent discipline decision report prompted me to look at an interesting management issue with regards to quick throw-ins and players returning from the sin bin.
How would you manage the following:
1. A player is in the sin bin, but his time is about to expire. During the next phase of play, the 10 minutes does expire.
2. The ball is kicked into touch and a player takes a quick throw to put the ball back into play.
Would you blow your whistle to prevent the quick-throw from occuring and allow the sin-binned player to return to the field of play, or would you allow the Quick-throw to play and wait until the next stoppage?
My own view is that this is no different from a quickly-taken penalty; there is no reason to prevent the quick-tap PK from going ahead and the player in the bin is simply going to wait for the next appropriate stoppage. I'd just be interested to hear how others would manage the situation above without going into Law.
If it has been discussed before, I'll happily redirect and merge the posts into that thread, or just delete mine entirely.
I might even submit a question to the Biltong-lovers of the world to see what they reckon...
How would you manage the following:
1. A player is in the sin bin, but his time is about to expire. During the next phase of play, the 10 minutes does expire.
2. The ball is kicked into touch and a player takes a quick throw to put the ball back into play.
Would you blow your whistle to prevent the quick-throw from occuring and allow the sin-binned player to return to the field of play, or would you allow the Quick-throw to play and wait until the next stoppage?
My own view is that this is no different from a quickly-taken penalty; there is no reason to prevent the quick-tap PK from going ahead and the player in the bin is simply going to wait for the next appropriate stoppage. I'd just be interested to hear how others would manage the situation above without going into Law.
If it has been discussed before, I'll happily redirect and merge the posts into that thread, or just delete mine entirely.
I might even submit a question to the Biltong-lovers of the world to see what they reckon...