Kicking the ball away

[ARF]

The correct LOTG decision is to punish the more serious offence. In the past it made no difference. But now that we have sin bin, sometimes DTROP is the correct decision until there is a law change to say otherwise.

Neither is 'more serious' - they are both just cautions. IMO it's not for a referee to be considering the implications of whether it's more detrimental for the player/team for them to caution under C2 or C4, it is solely whether they deem the act of kicking the ball away to have been an act of dissent, or whether they deem it to have been to delay the opponents from restarting quickly.

 

[Peter Grove]

Neither is 'more serious' - they are both just cautions.

Except when you have sin bins, when they're not necessarily 'both just cautions' and is I think, the distinction @one was making.

 

[AlexF]

Except when you have sin bins, when they're not necessarily 'both just cautions' and is I think, the distinction @one was making.

Dissent has always been considered "more serious" from a disciplinary standpoint, but the point that I (and others) have been trying to make on this thread is that it's almost NEVER both offences simultaneously... it's almost ALWAYS one or the other.

In that occasional situation where it can easily be deemed as either, then just go with dissent and move on.

 

[one]

In that occasional situation where it can easily be deemed as either, then just go with dissent and move on.

Why?

 

[bester]

If a player is already on a non dissent yellow card then is delaying the restart more serious than dissent? Red card versus a sin bin...

 

[one]

If a player is already on a non dissent yellow card then is delaying the restart more serious than dissent? Red card versus a sin bin...

Now you are talking. Welcome to the thread

When a law and/or it's application has changed, what has "always been considered" in the past becomes irrelevant.