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Holy shit. I've just read through the last pages about ‘that’ goal.
I’m not interested in trying to get the goal counted. I just think it’s important to remember that the league and its rules are still in development. As with the last league, there’ll be situations that arise that find holes in the rules we’ve made and I think we need to use those opportunities to make our rules and the way we implement them more robust. This is one of those times.
On Thursday, ALL of Malice players contested Rik’s decision. Matt contested it longer and more vehemently. I only say this because there seems to be some question about it.
Rik’s call was based on a change to the rules that was agreed by other players for a different match and was not agreed or known about by us. Had he used the rules as they were written and agreed for the league, the goal would have stood. Hence Matt’s frustration.
Rik’s decision was to stand by his call and get the game going again. I totally understand he was trying to be an authoritative ref and we were all feeling under pressure about how little time we had left.
I think we should try to resolve a couple of questions that have come out of this:
We agreed that ‘goal height’ in the league was cone height. Not all cones are the same height. Do we standardise the cones we use? Or do we change the rule so that goal height is cone height unless it is agreed to be otherwise by all 6 players and the ref before the match?
Should we agree that we can appeal against a decision after the fact? It is now standard in professional sports to have an appeal process, so why shouldn't we? Referees’ decisions are over-turned when it is clear from evidence that they were wrong. In future, can we have the right to appeal against decisions?