Thankyou Phil for being the first person to more or less say Lets use our common sense.
I'm a pretty big sports fan, and every sport I know has grey areas in the rules. (I was actually discussing this with my American housemate recently). American Football have rule clarifications all the time and all it seems to do is confuse the fans. The referees (are they Umpires?) get lots of training on interpretation, as do football (proper football) referees. This is so that they can enforce them correctly and be made clear on grey areas, and still mistakes are made. There is no way that we will ever get a comprehensive set of rules that everyone is clear on and are easy to understand. We just have to be SPIRIRTED about playing. I've never played top level Ultimate (worlds/europeans) but from what I hear there are rarely problems with the rules. For some reason it seems to get more picky at the lower levels were I play. (I could of course be wrong on this). A few years back I laid out for a disc (a rare occasion). It kinda hurt so I took a couple of seconds getting up - my marker started a stall count while I was lying on the floor. I protested they couldn't do this, but they said I had to call an injury if I was hurt. Of course I checked the rules and I was wrong, but I still think it is ridiculous to stall someone who is lying on the ground. That's just an example, and I know that if this rule was changed so you couldn't be stalled I could take full advantage and lie on the floor for ages. But I would hope that in this situation my team would get a bad spirit score and this would be alerted to the TD. So perhaps this is the solution - more penalties for poor spirit (stand by for another barrage of e-mails) from UKUA??? At the risk of getting all hippy, lets not forget the fundamental principle of Spirit of the Game. Ernie __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
