Penalties
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Our discussion yesterday about the termination of the penalty box led to a discussion about a slightly different topic. This is why I create this new discussion here. Of course this discussion is related to the other discussion.
I think we agreed that generally too few 2min penalties are called by the referees and that there are more fouls that should lead to a 2min penalty. Furthermore, 2min penalties are very exciting for both the teams and spectators (Ole you didn‘t agree on that, right?). And to increase the safety of the game, stricter rules are beneficial. Thus we agreed to make the rules more strict.
More specifically, we came up with this (incomplete) list of rules we want to make more strict:
* each SUB at high speed is a 2min
* repeated fouls by a TEAM lead to a 2min
* every SIB is a 2min penalty (doesn‘t occur often but is a quite ‚bad‘ foul)
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I like it. Could we expect refs to write down the penalties given in a notebook (provided by the organisers) to keep track of how many penalties are given to each team or is it too much of a hassle? It seems like something where there could be some discussions over when it's "repeated fouls" and when it resets. Ideally sending someone off the field would lead to that team playing less aggressively but it could still throw the game if the team then ends up playing less aggressively (more so than they need).
For the list I think it also makes sense to add high speed (or any speed) collissions that can be quite bad and we would want people to avoid.
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I don't think we need to write anything down specifically. With repeated fouls by a team the ref will know that the team has been penalised once and then they can decide on a course of action after a second penalty if they deem it to be in line with one of the above suggested penalties