Maybe we could have a free kick every time the umpire "deliberately" bounces the ball outside of the centre circle.Enrico_Misso wrote: ↑Sat 01 Aug 2020 9:40pm The kick off the ground by Gresh clearly wasn't deliberate.
He was under pressure and would have been tackled if he attempted to pick it up.
So he swung a boot at it hoping to create a chaos ball inside 50.
Instead it deviated left gaining 40 metres before crossing the line.
Making a clean contact in such circumstances is very difficult so to call it deliberate is farcical!!!!!
But don't change the rule to last side to touch gets penalised.
That would change our game significantly.
Every defender knows the boundary line is your friend.
Changing that means defending teams would no longer risk playing down the line.
It would also lead to "shenanigans" as players would try to deflect handballs off opponents to win soft frees.
That would be painful to watch.
Leave the rule as it is.
But umpire it consistently.
Perhaps umps could try kicking a bouncing ball off the ground at training to see how hard it is to direct it accurately!!!!
There would be some very sore umpires come games end.