chrismtl
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I don't think you can call him trolling because he disagrees with you? His points are valid!
If he presents a valid argument then I wouldn't be calling him a troll...Instead, he's posted twice in this thread, and both times he's gone ahead and added useless items that are purely posted to provoke and piss me off. The first post actually had nothing to do with discussing the issue...I'll go ahead and underline the trolling parts of his posts added for absolutely no reason. Without the underlined parts, I can consider his posts valid; with them, they move into the troll category. I have full respect for a well thought out argument, but this is just trash talk and not particularly productive for the discussion.
1) You were let down by your deliberately cheating teammate, not the ref. Why did he do it?!!?!
2) The offence was called against your teammate not you. its likely the referee had a better view of his actions than you did , irrespective of your teammates ' embarrassed at being caught out' subsequent innocence protestations.
As for his arguments being valid, I'd love to see a ref claim that a player who was behind another player is being called under law 10.1 (b) which is clearly titled "Running in front of a ball carrier". Kind of hard to run behind someone if you're in front of them. In any case, Law 10.1 (b) also contains the word "intentionally" just like 10.1 (c), (d) & (e)