
New rules - get the coaches and officials updated
Because that's the rule


Big D
Foot violations, only a seemingly delibrate attempt is a foot violation, not accidental contact.
A foot violation has to be a deliberate act. accidental or incident contact with the foot is not a violation.

Coaches that play a zone for U14 and below should be ashamed, they do it because their teams can't play man and they don't really want to teach it. Or they want to cheat on the game. Develop the players, play a man defense.
With the rules, the amount of refs below A grade that didn't know the simplest of rules were astounding:
eg- Points disallowed on a shot attempt with offensive foul call.
Backcourt ruling
the advancing of the ball as mentioned above.
Foot violations, only a seemingly delibrate attempt is a foot violation, not accidental contact.
The calling of a defensive foul because of contact through the chest, i;m referring to what should have been no calls. Not defensive fouls.
yet they don't seem to even bother to try and correct this, and being a ref myself, i can speak from first hand experience about the lack of teaching.

To anon reply#387
No arguments here - reffing was great in A grade
we had 3 refs for all games except finals (in 18s)
speaking of finals - SO SO HOT - saw a lot of dehydrated players - so unnecessary
Congrats to all winners and runners-up

Mackinnon - Mastro
Ere - Willie ??
Black - Hill
Dusty - Horvath
Boucher - Nash ?
Is Bradtke back tonight ? If so run Wheeler and Coops at him and let Horvath keep Dusty honest.
To me it would make sense to let Sutton have a run . He is a stronger ball handler than Darren and given that this game is probably out of our reach without Brett Maher on court - give him some game time.
Or do they do something really unconventional and call back Gower to get stuck into some of the bigger bodies that Brisbane has and let Hill and Copeland handle the ball all night ?
Gower's hustle has been something positive for us when called up.
Your thoughts?
