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and some of them quite dangerous...
plus if you are running behind because they caught you and they got a break why should you be allowed to stop them hacking/hooking?
In football you can not tackle without being punish with a red / yellow card if you get caught by the referee right?
Perhaps that should be the way to go.
In Hockey there are exclusions for hooking stick with stick right? I don't see any difference between hockey and polo in that aspect ...
VictorRodri-
Surely in those sports you have more players able to make a block or tackle hence justifying the punishment however when there are only 3 of you on a team it's slightly more fair. I'm not a massive fan of hooking but if your on a breakaway you can manouver to avoid a hook so I think it's an ok rule for the time being whilst working out ways to get rid of more aggressive and unnecessary hooks.
Another point. If you get rid of being able to hook on the break it puts more teams in a position where they won't feel comfortable to play 3 out. Playing 3 out is obviously down to the team but I personally feel it encourages more free flowing play so again, getting rid of hooking entirely might not be such a good decision.
It will be interesting to see what the feedback will be after the world's.
We were gutted that we couldn't send a team from Scotland this year but our polo scene is currently suffering and we are focusing on strengthening our numbers over the next few months but it's hard times as we are about to lose one of our courts and council doesn't give a toss as they are in commonwealth legacy mode.
Sounds like we missed a lot of fun...
clemp3
I agree. sunday was super clean and any hooks that you did were suddenly three times as successful (and annoying) as nobody expected them!