Thought it would be interesting to create a continuing thread where we can posts obvious MASL rules that need to be altered/changed after seeing games at different venues across the league. I'll start off with two I noticed after watching the Sidekicks/Comets game. 1. Three line rule - in the rule book it specifically defines the three line rule as being "two yellow lines and a halfway line" and then again states it's illegal to do unless the ball touches the field of play "between the two yellow lines." So at least in Dallas, the three line rule is null and void. 2. Player equipment rule - needs to be enforced - #6 and #25 on Missouri had no name on their jerseys, also none of the Missouri players had numbers on the front of their jerseys or shorts (which is required).
To be fair, it was the first game and the comets didn't release their uniforms until a few days earlier. I'm sure by their next game the jerseys will have names and numbers, I'm sure the printer just ran out of time and they needed them right away.
Interesting about the Comets names... Last year Max Touloutte was 6 and Brian Harris was 25... no real concern with either of them not making the team.
The 3 line rule reads as exactly how it is. You have to be inside the yellow line to kick it over the mid field line and 2nd yellow. Its a pretty common rule in a lot of indoor facilities.
Well where in the rules does it specifically say the "yellow line" has to be painted yellow? Think of it as a case similar to the branding of the "Big Ten" or "Monday Night Football" played on a Saturday. It's still the Big Ten, and it's still Monday Night Football.
It's not an arbitrary term. Look at the ball placement marks in the rule book, for example. It says they are "circular red marks", and then below it says it is permissible for those marks to be painted white. Dallas is not in compliance with the 3 line rule and if I were a coach I would for sure argue that the rule is null and void in Dallas.
I won't go as far as Kenn, but you have to think about something here. They probably just decided upon the rules two minutes (figuratively) before they published them and not too long before the season started. Not enough time to be by the book.
By ISN's logic, every college football program should take a player who didn't make the women's soccer team and add her as a "third/fourth string placekicker" but have her real job be shuttling play calls into the huddle on each play. They couldn't be called for 12 men in the huddle as it would be 11 men and 1 woman.
Doesnt matter if they are pink, red, green or rainbow. 3 lines still apply regardless of color. The rule i think is from a period where the lines were yellow, although some teams have different colors ionstead. Really shouldnt be a big deal imo
I agree with the penalty shootout rule.. It's like giving the team free, unearned points. Just stick with the classic powerplay
I understand the context in which it was requested - the 1-pt "free throw" during the 1-2-3 basketball-point scoring of 1990's npsl. But it is an unmitigated disaster in the context of soccer-point scoring.
And if they were doing it now as they were then, I wouldn't be so weirded out by it. But in this current context, it really is a freebie. Might as well just have folks take penalty kicks instead of shootouts. I have to look if PointStreak is keeping track of shootout attempts.
The officials should probably try and get a handle on the rules they have ... the Detroit vs Lancers game had a 10-15 minute delay while the officials went to the rulebook and still ended up calling the commissioner over Detroit's claim that a penalty with a player in the box is wiped out when a game goes into overtime. In the end it was decided that the penalty does carry over into overtime. Then I switch over to watching the St Louis vs Milwaukee game only to see two penalty shootouts in a row ... St Louis draws a blue card and fails to convert the shootout so its St Louis with 5 players and Milwaukee with 4 players. Not even 30 seconds later Milwaukee draws the blue card ... they do actually convert and score ... but somehow its still 4 on 4 play (after a lengthy debate)? That just doesnt seem right at all ... St Louis goes down another goal AND loses a player?
To add to these, in the 1st quarter of the San Diego/Seattle match, a Seattle player got a blue card (2 minute penalty). After the Seattle player goes to the penalty box, there was no shoot-out and San Diego got a free kick and the power play started.
I've had 2 games on tonight, Comets v Chicago and Seattle v San Diego (to watch the train wreck) both games have had the referees have to get together multiple times to go over the rules.
It was nearly 35 minutes between the end of regulation and the start of overtime, and some of the fans actually left the building before overtime started.
I had a feeling it was long, i mean....I watched a good chunk of OSU/Michigan State and came back, still no playing. Nice goal to finish it though.
Yikes I didn't realize it was that long ... I guess time flies when you're ... cleaning And waiting for the game to restart.
That entire game was poorly officiated. The fact that rule even came into question is hilarious. Since when did a PP not carry over into OT?