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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
1) Jurassic Referee, I totally see your point of view. However, I just can't bring myself to totally agree with it.
2)Let's take the same situation and apply R 4-18 there is no need to apply judgment it straight to the point.
By applying 4-19-4 where an official has to use judgment and treat the push as not severe and later on in the game the same two players get tangle up again now that said official have to penalize both players for the earlier situation and I don't totally agree with that.
My take is when we have a rule which is straight to the point like 4-18 use it. Let's leave judgement out of it in a situation like this.
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1) That's cool. I'm just giving you my opinion.
2) If you apply R4-18 to
all pushes, then you have to throw
all players out for all pushes. There's no judgment involved. If a player pushes someone, he/she is gone. That means that you're tossing a kid for a quick, one-handed push that might be unsporting but is not flagrant. If you use R4-19-4 though, you can call the foul as determined by the severity of the act, using your judgment.
The purpose and intent of rule 4-18-2 is to penalize the instigator of a fight equally with the player responding.