Wed Feb 22, 2012, 01:18pm
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Keeper of the HAMMER
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: MST
Posts: 27,190
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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
The points regarding maintaining LGP are in 4-23-3, however, the only mention of an airborne player with the ball is in a different section, 4-23-4. This tells me an airborne player is to be ruled differently than simply maintaing LGP.
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Originally Posted by RichMSN
I agree with you and with Scrappy-Doo. Once airborne, the defender can't move himself into a new spot hoping to get landed on...
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So what's your ruling?
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Slightly different play again:
B1 sprinting down on D to get into position. Turns, and establishes LGP just before A1 takes off.
B1 never really gets stopped, though, and takes a couple of steps backwards due to momentum while A1 is in the air.
Had he not moved, A1 would have contacted him almost immediately after takeoff; but the movement delayed contact by about half a second.
Who calls a block because B1 got to a "different spot" after A1 was airborne?
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