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Old Tue Jan 21, 2003, 09:46am
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally posted by Nevadaref
In part (a) the airborne player returns to the floor with the ball. In part (b) the airborne player is unable to control the ball and it drops to the floor. In BOTH cases the ruling is "A held ball results immediately," not when the player returns to the floor, but "when airborne A1 is prevented from releasing the ball to pass or try for goal."
It can't be any clearer than that.
Nevada,that's exactly what I've been trying to tell you.As soon as an airborne player is prevented from releasing the ball to pass or try for goal,you have a held ball.If you DON'T prevent them,you don't have a damn thing.It's not tunnel vision.It's the rule.You can write 1000-word essays from here to eternity and you can't change the meaning of the word "prevent".

I'm just quoting the same things to you over and over.Why don't you just forget about me and call it your way.Argument's over.Let us know how it turns out the first time that you call a held ball when an airborne player actually gets a shot off and scores,though.
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