Recent content by Mipper

You’re too kind. DotD if accidental too in my book 😁

All relevant answers to the OP. I would love to see a situation where an attacker would kick the ball dead from inside the in-goal area. A contender for D**k of the day I would imagine.

No games yet. All of the pre-season games go to the societies favourites ;)

So I do think that the high amount of subs at the top level is problematic. Its a difficult problem to solve given the specialist nature of the front rows now. However, one way of possibly addressing this is to limit the amount of subs alowed to be used. For example, have 8 subs to cover for...

So I have officiated games where ther have been more subs allowed, simply through discussion with both teams before the game. The rules, the regulations and the laws may not permit this, but at lower levels if it enables more guys to get a get on a saturday then I am happy to go with this.

@crossref @Pedro thank you gents (or ladies!), I am happy to be re-assured. Yes, it can be bloody complicated, and whatsmore I suspect that if I ever had to adjudge a player standing in touch and knocking a ball infield that has not reached touch (18.2d), that may elicit some conversation on...

I thought that I knew the laws "quite" well, and I was pretty sure that I had the laws around when a ball is in or out of touch, pretty well covered. Yesterday however, I got into a discussion with two fellow refs and a senior coach, who all had a different view on a law that I find quite...

I believe that 30th August is the date on which the squads must be confirmed.

yeah, if that happened in one of my games I would be straight onto the Laws app at half-time

Yes I’m very much with BB. I have been thinking about this, and to me it is quite straightforward, when the Argentina player decided to jump, where did he think he was going to land? He knew the SA player would be hit in his follow through. If he didn’t consider this, then he should have...

Clearly reckless for me. Head contact, no mitigation imho.

Well I have to wholeheartedly disagree. I find the suggestion that he was abusive toward Khawaja because he is rascist quite abhorrent. Further, I feel the ongoing attempt at justifying it is disgusting. here’s why; 1.I don’t believe that our actions as a teenager necessarily define us a...

Yes, apart from his teenage indiscretions. Truthfully, it is quite possible that he is a rascist, but I think it’s a little inappropriate to suggest it because of his actions in this test. After all he used rude, but not rascist language.

Good points Simon. I would have left out the part questioning whether Ollie Robinson is a rascist. In fact, I would suggest that it was because they couldn’t get him out that he resorted to the verbals. Nothing new there!

why do you say this? I have also reffed a lot at U16 and U18, and do not find the 10m to be an issue. I do find it is worth taking time out after the 10m though.