Goalies, and back through the goal

Someone (on .ca I think) said that not being able to play the goalie, due to them not being near the ball is bullshit, as the goalie, being in goal, the focal point of the game, is ALWAYS playing the ball by sitting int he goal, so is therefore fair game to pull their mallet, nudge, push out of goal whatever. I think that is wicked. There was no goalie checking really at the weekend, and that made it a bit boring, especially for Mark, who didn't move once in one of discordia's games.

That was what I was getting at. But from where I was standing, the only boring games were the ones between rubbish teams. All the games in the later rounds were very exciting (well, I thought so), even the (relatively) low-scoring BAD vs Cosmic I reffed. And to judge from the noises coming from Ray's court, the majority of the spectators found them exciting too.