Interestingly if you look closely you can see it's ex-Fusion Tom Quilter that seems to call it a turnover and sparks the anger from Sam Lord (who wisely chooses to turn his back after a few seconds), and then none other than ex Ro Sham Bo teammate Danny Hoyle jogging over to pursuade TQ not to get involved again. The pair led Ro Sham to their Uni Nationals victories in 2006.
At the moment I'm editting together one of the 'callfest' Clapham vs Skogs games - the final of EUCF2006 - and none of the calls strike me as badly spirited. In fact, when a bad call is made due to misjudgement of player positioning, Rob Alpen steps in to pursuade his teammate to retract the call (this is when Clapham aren't the the dominant team and are in fact a couple of points down). This is something I rarely see teams at the top do & wish I saw a lot more of - if you believe a player has misjudged the situation and is making an incorrect call/contest, as a player on the pitch you should let your opinion heard, regardless of whether it's supporting your players' position or not. There's an 'all for one' ethic in some teams when it comes to calls, which would be better ditched for just trying to find the correct outcome. Personally I think (with a few exceptions) the spirit level in general drops the lower down the seedings you go, as the average players become less knowledgable of the rules, and the more dominant players become more likely to exploit this fact for their own benefit. Sad but true. Felix ps. if, for arguments sake, the premature-check violation hadn't occured, then IF Sam had control of the disc before the foul it would've been a score: "16.5.4. A defensive foul that causes the receiver or thrower to drop the disc after they have gained possession is a "Strip" foul. 16.5.4.1. If such a foul occurs and the reception would have otherwise been a goal, and the foul is uncontested, a goal is awarded." So fouls - not just strips - in the endzone can result in goals, but only if the receiver has "sustained contact with, and control of, a non-spinning disc." Oh and check this out (in the Definitions): "A disc in the possession of a player is considered part of that player." - so smacking a hand in control of the disc (as it could be argued Sam's was) & causing it to drop is the same as smacking the disc directly. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
