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Originally Posted by BigCat

Here you had a try in flight, horn and then clearly missed try making ball dead and ending quarter. Everybody is now bench personnel. All 10 who were in game and of course, all others. During intermission everybody is bench personnel.

Yet the rules regarding fighting and the behavior of bench personnel are written in the context of it not being an intermission. I don't think you'd treat the 5 people who were the players as if they came off the bench when a fight occurred. They were legally on the floor having been players. You might treat them as bench personnel so far as indirect T's go, however, but not for the purposes of disqualification if they do not participate.

Also, if the true bench personnel were heading towards their locker room, they'd be authorized to do that too. So, I would have no problem not treating them as leaving the bench for a fight unless they showed some sort of aggressive action related to the fight.