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In London we play courts with a 'D' but not everybody does which is why for shuffles I implimented the 2-touch rule for the euros. I worded it as *the team that shuffled cannot score until any second player has possessed the ball. *I would have thought that this would be the case for the ball coming back through the goal as well. Possession means controlled touches, so the ball must be offensively passed or taken from a defensive player, not just bounced off any player.
Playing the goalie, if the ball is clearly on a controlled path to the goal, the goalie is in play and subject to like-like contact such as a mallet swipe or shoulder check.
Some people think that because the object of the game is to get the ball into the goal then the ball is always on a path to the goal but clearly there's a difference between a controlled path and a lucky deviation towards the goal. Not to mention when the ball is going away from the goal...