Tourney: Christmas Bench, Sunday 22 December 2013, Hackney Downs MUGA

Icing won't work in polo.
Here's the proof:

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Whats the goals of these rule changes? Its great people want to test out new styles for innovation. Not sure i'd want to pay for lights with this experiment though. Not sure i want to do the bench with rule changesTBH. Can it not be decided/tested first? I might be committing to other things soon as first come first serve.

Keep it simple, keep it fun

No idea what icing is.

What's the thinking behind the icing rule? What are you trying to stop/promote with it?

How will you implement it?

What's the penalty for it (considering we don't have face-offs in polo)

Just curious, not saying it shouldn't happen.

So, Ben...

I'm pro face-off though, jousts are not worth winning and too dangerous IMO. Ban jousts.

Can I quote that for Kruse?

Ottawa have been doing faceoffs for a while, it's also used in other places around here, from time to time.

A game starts with one player from each team by the centre circle, the ref drops the ball, on the second bounce a player can touch the ball.

No idea what icing is.

In Ice Hockey, hitting the puck from your own half past the opponents goal line.

It's designed to stop the puck being dumped.

The reason I don't think it can just be transfered to bike polo is that courts are smaller, and people like to shoot from their own half (as Emmet mentions).

Also, the punishment in Hockey is a faceoff just by your own goal. We don't have an equivalent in polo.

I wouldn't want to see a reset every time someone takes a long shot.

Plus with less people on a team and so less defenders and no permakeeper it might be a legitimate attack if you can twat the ball down knowing someone on your team is likely to make it to the other end before the other team playing 3 out get back.

If you just want to prevent people taking big shots then I think a more interesting rule would be shots in your own half don't count as goals, so the team with the ball can play a bit deeper/riskier than normal.

The icing rule will no longer be trialed as based on off the forum feedback peeps prefer to play at Downs. An amended hooking rule would still be trialed though, Ryan/Ali would provide further details.

Are peeps happy to pay the maximum of a fiver each so we could have lights till 9pm? Would need to speak to GLL (the company in charge of the lights) pretty soon as 22nd is less than a month away.

Sure. Sounds good!

happy to pay

+1

yes, ok

Happy to pay too. and also still in.. What sort of numbers are you expecting ben?

happy to pay, booked off work

(In.)

Happy to pay

is there a list for this?

can anyone join in? even beginners? if so im in

im in!

Ben - make sure you use the credit they owe me. They owe me 2 hours + compensation for getting 10 people together for a league game and then having no lights. I reckon they will cover the whole slot if you ask right.

In Ice Hockey, hitting the puck from your own half past the opponents goal line.

It's designed to stop the puck being dumped.

The reason I don't think it can just be transfered to bike polo is that courts are smaller, and people like to shoot from their own half (as Emmet mentions).

Also, the punishment in Hockey is a faceoff just by your own goal. We don't have an equivalent in polo.

I wouldn't want to see a reset every time someone takes a long shot.

Also stops the defending team posting a player on the offside line to chase dumped pucks and score from effectively nothing, I haven't seen it but a couple of hockey buffs I spoke to said that icing isn't in lower league rules and it's how many goals are scored.
How about the offside rules tho? Some I think would be really good for polo, potentially stop a lot of dicking on keepers and also create a more end to end game.

Is that something we have a problem with right now? I don't think we are seeing too many goals scored by goal hanging

Na, that's why I don't think the icing rule would bring anything to the game. But the offside rule (as it is in hockey) would push teams to be more offensive. Also, good defense (as in pushing the attacking team back over their offside line) will change the dynamics of the game and make the game more end to end.