Have that Mr Robinson

[Robbo]

Originally posted by Fabio421

Robbo, I think your idea has meritt and maybe it should be brought up in the next rules comittee meeting. But how do you keep up with the statistics of who is penalized? Currently there is no way to track this. There would have to be some type of record kept that is somehow tied into the player I.D. system. One problem I se arising is the definition of playing on. It seems that every marshal has their own guidlines that they follow. Someone who is hit on the way to bunker someone but still follows through is technicaly playing on. Where do we draw the line. I know that when I run through on a team I don't have time to stop and check to see if the ball that I just felt hit me broke or not. I depend on the reffs to do this for me in most cases. Where do we draw the line as to what is acceptable and what is not. Is it two steps after a hit, three steps, What if I am running so fast that I can't stop in time to avaoid a penalty? There needs to be some solid ground rules for this to go anywhere. But like I said before. This idea has potential. I just wonder how it could be practicaly implemented.

'And therein lies the rub' as ole Willy Shakespeare once said

As I said, I was jabbering in principle, the details of which can be ironed out by people much better suited than I.
The only thing that is immediately obvious to me for this system to work is for each and every player to have a dog tag ID card hung about his person so that each and every infraction can be immediately attributed to an individual and leave no room for abuse.

 

[knobbs]

Basketball has personal fouls that will eventually remove the player from the game. If people see wiping/playing on as a foul, this would treat it the same way.

I like the idea.

 

[Gyroscope]

Require players to wear their NPPL id cards on the field. Put a UPC bar on each card. Scan in sufficiently severe infractions on the field with hand held scanners. Expensive, buty technically feasible.

Fighting should be dealt with far more severely. Eject the TEAM from the event. Flew thousands of miles? Sorry, cut the hot heads.*

Records will be kept eventually, same as any sport. That may impact things, maybe not. I think that players' reputations will help in the pro and to some extent am divisions, but the lower tiers are out of luck. Only the top few teams have even recognizable names.

*Pete, I am not tarring you with this brush. You might have taunted, but you aren't the one who turned that one physical, near as I could see. I see your actions in Miami as self defense, as an eye-witness. There is no excuse for leaving the deadbox to attack someone. I'd say the same about anyone who did it- I cut a guy who left the box to get in someone's face from my own team a while back.

 

[Gyroscope]

IMO, playing on is doing anything other than asking for a paintcheck or walking off when you have been marked. If you are running and get nailed, get down and get checked. The way a run through is supposed to work is you find a moment when everyone is looking the wrong way and punish that lapse. Or, you get eaten alive and create a distraction while someone else runs the far tape. Reying on bounces when you run through is weak-sauce.