Polo Rules

I understand completelly London International Invitationnal was an exibition tournament, and I have nothing to say on how Bill reffed there (except tape out story). And again thanks dude it was a performance to do it 3 days long.

It's a detail but I have to tell it because it was sometimes boring, when you give a start, I think you should do it quicker.

Something more like: team ready? - team ready? - on the whistle - bip
instead of: team ready? - team ready?- ten seconds - bip

I think it's important to have a different amount of time each game, between asking if teams are ready and the whistle, but no more than 5 or 6 seconds.

i.e, ready?...ready?...whistle.

next game: ready?...ready?..........whistle.

next game: ready?...ready?......whistle.

This makes it much harder for teams to jump the gun. Also the whistle should not be on the beat so you can charge on the "w of whistle".

They used to do this in mountain bike races. They'd say the race will start anytime within the next 30 seconds, then you'd be bricking it for 10 - 15 seconds before the air-horn. No false starts.

Goal refs should also be more vigilant on back wheels on the boards, I've seen people creeping up to a foot or so off the boards and when you only win the charge by half a foot, something's wrong.