I frankly didn’t remember who made the comment when I wrote my post. If you took from my post that I thought you were condoning defenders beating up on attackers, I certainly wasn’t saying that. Nor would I think that.Bart wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:19 pmI made that statement first and I am sorry you are so disappointed in it. There is a difference in bench scoring and the FU scores the original poster was talking about. No one should take things into their own hands and if done I 100% agree that player deserves a red card. But do you really think it's out of the realm possibility that in a charged game a starting player scores a FU goal and a defender does something wrong and stupid. Not condoning, not saying anyone should expect that but saying that these type of FU goals in a charged atmosphere on a field filled highly competitive players the possibility exists for something bad to happen. It is the coaches decision, the coaches reading of the atmosphere on the field and sideline. Leaving your starters out there for these type of FU goals is 100% on the coach. It only takes a moment of bad judgement by a frustrated player to impact another player in a terrible manner.njbill wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:51 pm
To the suggestion that defenders might start taking cheap shots on attackers who go to goal — YIKES! — that to me is a really disappointing comment. 100% wrong. Attackers scoring at the end of a game are competing 100% within the rules. A defender has every right to aggressively defend within the rules, but if she tries to clean the clock of an attacker, she is committing a foul and is playing outside the rules. If I were officiating, that defender would get a red card every time.
I have seen this type of bad judgement in the past on attackers/midfielders I know. This was in the mens game and more than a few years ago.
Let me try to make the point a little differently. If a team that’s winning comfortably scores a goal at the end of a game in garbage time, that absolutely does not excuse a defender from taking a cheap shot at the attacker. BUT the fact that some rogue player might do that does not mean attackers on the team with the big lead cannot continue playing their normal game. I think everybody agrees that it is entirely wrong for a defender to take a cheap shot. Needless to say, it is also prohibited by the rules. There is a disagreement on this board about whether or not it is poor sportsmanship to score a goal at the end of a game, but I don’t think anybody says that violates any provision in the wlax rule book.