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Originally posted by jritchie

as far as the held ball, No open hand first, just straight up with both thumbs, is i believe to allow the refs to run in as they are doing it and get in a little quicker to break the players up possibly fighting over the ball on the floor... i think they said every second counts when they are in a situation like that....so in the time it takes to raise the one arm and look around for a second, then call held ball, we could of had 2 or 3 elbows thrown or whatever else can happen in a pile like that... it's just to allow us to get in there quicker.... or that is what i have heard from some of the head clinicians!!!! what do you think??

[Edited by jritchie on Jan 7th, 2005 at 02:00 PM] [/B]

Thumbs up with hard whistle, or two or three, will never change IMO.