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Topic: Offside from a fumble...
Posted By: aber-fan
Subject: Offside from a fumble...
Date Posted: 26 March 2018 at 5:05pm
We all know that if a player knocks on, anyone in his team in front of him is offside if he handles the ball.

Recently, there have been a couple of occasions where players have fumbled the ball BACKWARDS, so no knock-on, but players in the same team who were in front of the ball have picked it up.

Is that an offside, or not? I'm a bit baffled about this one.


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Posted By: joni_bach
Date Posted: 26 March 2018 at 6:31pm
Surely they have to retreat in order to be able to pick up the ball, so that puts them back onside. 

Personally I get annoyed when nearly every fumble gets penalised for a knock on, regardless of what direction it goes in, seems to happen a lot lately. 


Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 26 March 2018 at 8:50pm
Originally posted by joni_bach joni_bach wrote:

Surely they have to retreat in order to be able to pick up the ball, so that puts them back onside. 

Personally I get annoyed when nearly every fumble gets penalised for a knock on, regardless of what direction it goes in, seems to happen a lot lately. 
Ref wants a rest?

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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 29 March 2018 at 12:03pm
Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

We all know that if a player knocks on, anyone in his team in front of him is offside if he handles the ball.

Recently, there have been a couple of occasions where players have fumbled the ball BACKWARDS, so no knock-on, but players in the same team who were in front of the ball have picked it up.

Is that an offside, or not? I'm a bit baffled about this one.
 
nope you can't be offside if the ball goes backwards


Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 29 March 2018 at 3:26pm
Originally posted by RR1972 RR1972 wrote:

Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

We all know that if a player knocks on, anyone in his team in front of him is offside if he handles the ball.

Recently, there have been a couple of occasions where players have fumbled the ball BACKWARDS, so no knock-on, but players in the same team who were in front of the ball have picked it up.

Is that an offside, or not? I'm a bit baffled about this one.
 
nope you can't be offside if the ball goes backwards

Thanks.


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