Tourney: London Open 2012 - August 25th and 26th

Crease, the rule seems to work for now, but creases are stupidly designed, they aren the same on each courts. Somes are designed on the basis of the Basketball ball crease and are way smaller than other on another court wich have to big rectangle on it. Wich make thing hard to ref and play, as on two courts you can almost double goalie and on another one you cant. There is non sens to make different sizes an that's not a big deal to make them the same on each court. Also reffing this is really hard, I took a shift on mid day group, an staying focus on classical rule and ball play is hard enough. Having to watch on static defense with on eye and staying focus on ball play at the same is hardcore.

Edit: it seems that Players are respecting this rule as they are thinking about it( I saw Lucas jumping out o the crease several time). So that's hard to ref but looks easy to auto-ref ( as for foot down rule).

Yeah, me & Jono did both the 1 & 2 creases, and the 3rd was done by others, who unfortunately didn't get the chance to measure the originals as HB was going on by then. Apologies for that!

Another way of looking at it is that with the different sizes, we get the opportunity to see which size works best :-). I agree it's hard to ref, but I didn't have to call it at all during HB. But we'll see.

Someone (was it you, Clement?) mentioned that it seemed unfair that 3 attacking players are allowed in there for as long as they like, but only 1 defending. Possibly something to think about.

Hope that we get lucky with the weather. Yesterday, when the rain started, I had an empty pint glass, and collected around 5mm of water in less than 20 mins. Torrential doesn't really cover it.