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Redref34

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Level 5 Referee
Hi all

Situation today that I would appreciate your thoughts if I could have handled any better.

Red player is fouled - advantage played - stays on ground - advantage over ball lost for a throw in to blue team.

Player will on ground - I stop game to attend to him and ask if he needs treatment. No he doesn’t hit he has to go off for 60 seconds as game is stopped.

Red team annoyed because they now have to defend with 10 even though it was a foul.

I could have just given the foul but I played advantage.

I could have left him on ground and not stopped game as wasn’t serious but then they would have moaned ( as they had previously ) that o needed to let him get back in position.

Appreciate thoughts.
Thanks
 
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But if I have to stop the throw in being taken to assess him - does that not constitute stopped the game?

And if it doesn’t - then can’t players just circumvent the rule by going down when the ball is out of play and wasting a few seconds?
 
You paused a restart to quickly assess a player who had been fouled, who indicated that they didn't need treatment, and you made them leave for one minute. Am I reading that correctly?
 
Essentially yes - I blew the whistle to stop the restart to run over to a player to assess if he needed treatment. Whole process took about 20 seconds of time - are you suggesting that we are not to make the player leave the pitch in this situation? I can’t see anything in the laws that says that.
 
That's means he does not have to go off for a minute so looks like you made a mistake on this one.

Would suggest ensuring you have read and understood the protocol before your next game. Come back and ask any questions that remain after you've digested it. 👍🏻
 
Thanks James. So just to clarify -

Players can go down and waste time when the ball is out of play and do not have to leave for a minute even if you have to ‘stop the game from restarting’ ?
 
Law 5 allows you as the referee to decide whether the restart has been delayed. In this instance, perhaps not necessary to make the player go off(?)
The referee . . . stops play only if a player is seriously injured and ensures that the player is removed from the field of play. An injured player may not be treated on the field of play and, where an injury results in play being stopped or the restart of play being delayed, the injured player must leave the field of play and may only re-enter one minute after play has restarted;* if the ball is in play, re-entry must be from the touchline but if the ball is out of play, it may be from any boundary line. The only exceptions to the requirement to leave the field of play for and/or after treatment are when: (etc)
 
Redref34 said:
Thanks James. So just to clarify -

Players can go down and waste time when the ball is out of play and do not have to leave for a minute even if you have to ‘stop the game from restarting’ ?
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Yes, and no. Don't want treatment, ok thanks for confirming.. peep. In play fellas let's go... 5 4 3 2 1.
 
bester said:
Don't restart play with players on the ground.
This is unwritten rule of football but try it and you'll see why.
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So a player can go down and then say they don’t want treatment when the ball is out of play but play has to wait for them to get up and get in position before restarting - all of which could take at least a minute from start to finish but they don’t have to go off? Defeats the object of the new law in my opinion.
 
No, you make him go off for a minute if the restart is delayed.

"Do you need physio". If he doesn't reply in a few seconds or says no then doesn't get back up you make him leave the field of play.


". An injured player may not be treated on the field of play and, where an injury results in play being stopped or the restart of play being delayed, the injured player must leave the field of play and may only re-enter one minute after play has restarted;"
 
Redref34 said:
I can’t see anything in the laws that says that.
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"A player is not required to leave the field of play for one minute when:
- the player:
- indicates that they do not require medical attention, except where play was stopped for the injury"

Redref34 said:
then can’t players just circumvent the rule by going down when the ball is out of play and wasting a few seconds?
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You need to be able to adapt how you are refereeing to recognise if a team is attempting to take advantage of how we are applying the laws, to try and prevent them from doing so.

I'd understand making a player go off in the original scenario if there is a pattern of behaviour from that team in order to waste time, but there is no mention of any previous issues from them. Additionally, as you say yourself, the player was down following a foul committed by an opponent, so I think a few extra seconds to check on the player before allowing play to continue, as James has described above, would be a more pragmatic way of dealing with it, rather than forcing the player to go off just because he'd stayed down for a bit after having been fouled.
 
Sorry another hypothetical situation here.

Team are losing - foul happens free kick given, player needs treatment, player than has to go off for a minute because he got treatment despite the fact the team are losing and he has not wasted any time in the game?

I have re-read the protocol as suggested in this post, I just want to be clear this seems harsh on a losing team that have just had a player fouled.

Thanks
 
I think the problem here is understanding the difference between stopping the game and stopping play. The law mandates the injured player to leave when 'play' is stopped. If 'game' is stopped, player only has to leave based on some other conditions.

Redref34 said:
Sorry another hypothetical situation here.

Team are losing - foul happens free kick given, player needs treatment, player than has to go off for a minute because he got treatment despite the fact the team are losing and he has not wasted any time in the game?
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Correct. Player did not deliberately waste time but it was in fact wasted (delayed) due to treatment.
 
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