
27-01-2011, 11:02
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AKA: Pinecone
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Re: Safety Zone on Playing Field
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Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin
I won't get into whether it's GP or not, but whatever it is, I'd be very cautious about making that gamble. Given that a head referee can assign a Red Card for "particularly egregious" violations (which this might qualify as), is it really worth risking a DQ to make that defensive stop? A 3 point penalty is one thing, but an automatic loss and 0 RP's is something else entirely.
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Very true - I'm just objecting to the very mention of the strategy resulting in his team quite literally being singled out ("tell the refs to pay close attention to 2992").
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