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@Buffalo_Bill
After the weekend, where the reffing made off-the-ball contact with goalies illegal, I was thinking about ways to fiddle with the rules to promote more engaged play from goalies.
At the moment, the rule that we play with balls back through the goal is that the ball must be touched once before a score is possible OR the ball must pass out of the D. So a ball that goes wide of the post, hits the back wall, passes across the goal line and then strikes the goalies bike and rebounds back across the line is NOT a goal. I think we should change this so that such a rebound IS a goal.
This would penalise goalies that sit tight to the goal, and don't engage.
Or we could make the goals a bit bigger.