- Feb 16, 2012
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Change it from "deliberate" to "directly" out of bounds.
Remove the guesswork about intentions and pay a free kick any time a player kicks, handballs or taps the ball toward the line and it maintains its line and goes out, whether deliberate or not. If it deviates before going out, it's a throw in.
This makes it a skill issue rather than being a guess about intentions. If a player kicks the ball along the line and it takes a sharp bounce and goes out, then they've successfully executed a skill (or got lucky) and there's no punishment. Throw it in. If they try to gather the ball and fumble and it goes straight to the line and out, then that was a skill error and deserves to be punished.
I'd rather deal with Jayden Short fumbling away our chance to beat the Dogs than have the game decided by Curtis Deboy.
Remove the guesswork about intentions and pay a free kick any time a player kicks, handballs or taps the ball toward the line and it maintains its line and goes out, whether deliberate or not. If it deviates before going out, it's a throw in.
This makes it a skill issue rather than being a guess about intentions. If a player kicks the ball along the line and it takes a sharp bounce and goes out, then they've successfully executed a skill (or got lucky) and there's no punishment. Throw it in. If they try to gather the ball and fumble and it goes straight to the line and out, then that was a skill error and deserves to be punished.
I'd rather deal with Jayden Short fumbling away our chance to beat the Dogs than have the game decided by Curtis Deboy.