uncle fester
Referees in Ireland
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One problem I have with law 10.4J is that the wording of it would seem to include dump tackles where the player is put on his ass/flat on his back because those tackles will nearly always end up with feet up in the air on impact with the ground.
The memo makes it clear that tip/spear tackles are the issue but the law book doesn't.
I had an issue in a game about a month ago when a member of the tackled player's team completely lost the plot when one of his teammates was dump tackled. I ended up having to issue a yellow card to the player who ended up emailing my branch and alleging that I was permitting players to spear tackle each other!
The memo makes it clear that tip/spear tackles are the issue but the law book doesn't.
I had an issue in a game about a month ago when a member of the tackled player's team completely lost the plot when one of his teammates was dump tackled. I ended up having to issue a yellow card to the player who ended up emailing my branch and alleging that I was permitting players to spear tackle each other!