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Appreciate all the replies. It's interesting to see everyone's opinion on this topic. My basic thought was to allow the other team to warm up. Traffic is usually bad around here. I just caught some flack from a few people on, "your job is to show up on time and start the game on time if both teams are present." So interesting to hear that most would allow teams ample time to warm up.
Also interesting on the interpretation of Rule 4-1. I think this may be stretching the "other conditions" clause a bit. I always took this rule to apply to the conditions of the field. This interpretation leaves it to be open to just about anything.
Thanks for all the input. I'm a relatively new official and appreciate the thoughts.
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