ByronCoach
New Member
Hello to all, trust i find you all well.
Just a wonder after a incident i watched on Monday night at a Step 7 match.
Ball is on play and gets played across the pitch from RB to LW, ref then blows the whistle , no one in the ground or on the pitch can think why.. Ref then walks over to the ball has a feel of it and asks the sidelines to swap the ball and they throw on another ball to the ref, who then has a squeeze of the ball and gives a little head nod to the player it was with and then drops the ball and goes for a re-start..
Up roar from both the sidelines and both sets of players.. He then talks to two players and they restart with a drop ball which the defending team as it would have been knock back to the then was attacking teams keeper.
My question is.. is this allowed, can the game be stopped at any point if a ball is flat or thought to be flat, and was the ref right to award a drop ball or as he was going to do allow the play to continue !!
Just a wonder after a incident i watched on Monday night at a Step 7 match.
Ball is on play and gets played across the pitch from RB to LW, ref then blows the whistle , no one in the ground or on the pitch can think why.. Ref then walks over to the ball has a feel of it and asks the sidelines to swap the ball and they throw on another ball to the ref, who then has a squeeze of the ball and gives a little head nod to the player it was with and then drops the ball and goes for a re-start..
Up roar from both the sidelines and both sets of players.. He then talks to two players and they restart with a drop ball which the defending team as it would have been knock back to the then was attacking teams keeper.
My question is.. is this allowed, can the game be stopped at any point if a ball is flat or thought to be flat, and was the ref right to award a drop ball or as he was going to do allow the play to continue !!