"New" Drop Ball Law

[Big Cat]

Did snortlaugh at an observer suggesting a colleague "hovers near the D" in a changing room once. 32 going on 12.

IFAB should add that term as 'foreplay' to their glossary. Maybe under a 'ball's out of play' subsection

 

[bester]

That isn't what is taught, at least certainly not in Englan. It is expected that, when the need arises the referee follows the play into the PA.
You just have to be smart about where in the PA you go, hanging around on the penalty spot will do you know favours but coming on from the outer quarters of the PA should be relatively harmless and might just give you the angle you need for that KMD

It wasn't that long ago the opposite was taught and you'd get marked down for penetrating the penalty area.
Considering how badly many referees read the game around the box and get in the way, it's definitely something to only use with experience.

 

[RustyRef]

It wasn't that long ago the opposite was taught and you'd get marked down for penetrating the penalty area.
Considering how badly many referees read the game around the box and get in the way, it's definitely something to only use with experience.

That's because you were expected to run corner flag to corner flag so missed the area, and meant if there was a foul on the right hand side of the area you were woefully placed to rule on it.

 

[Big Cat]

It wasn't that long ago the opposite was taught and you'd get marked down for penetrating the penalty area.
Considering how badly many referees read the game around the box and get in the way, it's definitely something to only use with experience.

The Positioning and Movement stuff we get from observers at 7-to-6 and 6-to-5 largely goes out the winda at 5-to-4
Penetrating the PA is infinitely more useful than running off the pitch wide left. The latter is plain stupid IMO because it involves a risk of being left woefully out of position depending upon how the play develops or transitions
It's like advantage, they teach you one way, then another and then back again, depending on your level
Take it all with a pinch of salt if I were you, otherwise you'll get promoted and then find yourself marked down at the next level