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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
Dan_Ref; When the player pushes the 1st. time and you warn him and then does it again then i believe this to be unsporting and thus the "T". I suppose there are many solutions. Are you saying this is not unsporting?
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A pushing an opponent during a live ball is a foul or an intentional foul. Pushing a teammate during a live ball play is not a foul. If he's pushes the teammate into an opponent during a dead ball, we have something different.
How can you say that you're going to call if a player pushes a second time? Players push all the time. This entire discussion has evolved into a mixed bag of semantics and distortions. To answer your question, no, it wasn't unsporting. The push wasn't part of a fight, a dead ball sitch or anything else flagrant or unsporting. It's simply a player who pushed a teammate during the course of a live ball play. The teammate happened to fall into an opponent. Fine! Call a foul on A1 on be done with it.
And don't tell players what you're going to do if they do something again. Talk to the coach if need be or handle it. But don't talk to kids like they're 4 year olds.