casman2 wrote:It did go out on the full over the dead ball line.....which was actually my next question to you, as i was not familiar with that ruling
Yep that's a 20m restart.
casman2 wrote:He did miss offsides for both teams and imo a few forward passes (but they are pretty standard stuff that gets missed anyway)
They're both things you can't possibly see from the end and unless you're in the middle monitoring the game, they're not always as cut and dried as they might appear from the stands.
A player isn't offside unless they're interfering or involved with play - simply having a foot in front of the mark won't generally result in a penalty like so many think. Also, someone behind me was constantly moaning about markers not being square on Friday - try looking at their feet rather than their bodies - that applies to getting back the 10m too.
You have to be 100% certain about a forward pass before giving it. The action of passing the ball can't be in a forward motion, but if this results in the flight of the ball being forwards whether it's via the player's forward momentum in relation to the ground; whether it's a high lobbed pass; or whether it's caught by the wind then it's not a forward pass. Every team is coached to pass the ball flat in the modern game. A flat pass from a standing player to a running player as an example, will from most angles appear to be forward although the pass itself is not.