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Old 25-09-07, 10:21 AM
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I have to aggree on that point duck. If a players is consistently getting tangled up with other players, then referees are going to start watching them more to see what is happening.

But one of the issues raised earlier is that most referees are right handed and do not fully appreciate the finer points of a right handed player tackling a left handed player legally. They might know the rules, but when faced with a left handed player, it confuses them becuase the leftie is doing everything back to front. It takes longer for the ref to process it, by which point it is to late, or they don't process it and make the wrong call.

There must be times when every player/referee/coach/spectator has gone 'what the heck just happened there' because something has happened quickly, but they have yet to understand it fully.

Even if a team has 2 left handed players, that still means that 80% of the play will be right handed and easier to process.
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