Polo Rules

People were generally impressed with SuperLuca's willingness to check other (bigger) players. But they seemed less keen on Ryan's version of physical play.
In my opinion both players were clean. Paul from Call Me Daddy however is generally borderline, especially when it comes to mallet hacking.

Ryan is big & scary, & therefore people feel frightened by him. As far as his play goes, he'll play to what he thinks he can get away with. He sat foot down in the goal for about 10 seconds with us (the London crowd) screaming at him to move out, because the rules said that a foot down player would get warned, not penalised, for first offence of not tapping out. Which was fair enough. I have reffed Ryan a lot, and he's very clever - not dirty - like a lot of the better players - in how he responds to rule-sets & refs.

Luca is relatively small, so people don't find it so scary, although those elbows are sharp, and hurt when you get them in the ribs. When he's a little bit older, and bit bigger, people won't be nearly so tolerant.

I haven't seen enough of Polo to say much, but he has a long mallet & long arms, and likes to reach around and slash, from what I saw. Which can be annoying.

If there was one other thing that wasn't penalised enough (or at all, really) it was slashing. There was quite of lot of it going on.