Serve Part II

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by FMadera

Can you? Sure. Is it a good idea at that point? Nope.

When you line them up, you can always make sure the R1 sees what the lineup *should* be, and hopefully the R1 will be more mindful moving forward.

I agree. I have a hard time penalizing a team for requesting a lineup check to determine if they were out of order and then penalizing them for being out of alignment anyway. If it involves something that you shouldn't be looking at anyway as the R2, then I think you have potentially opened a can or worms for yourself and for your R1 (you basically questioned his credability in front of everyone). While the rules allow it, I think this would be a tough situation to call.

[bob jenkins]

Depending on the relationship / experience of the officials, and assuming this is before the serve and not after the TO, R2 (or R1 for the receiving team) can give a discrete "out of rotation" signal to R1. R1 can either shake his head or make the call -- it's then up to R2 to explain it to the coach involved and / or take the heat if R2 is wrong.