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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2667088, member: 8215"] The game is full of situations where players knowingly risk getting hit in order to suck in defenders or get a miracle ball away. In an example of passing, if the defender has dived before the pass has been thrown it's no penalty. Because at that time, the pass is only a possibility, therefore the defender has every right to defend all possibilities. If players are willing to cut things that fine, then that's their risk to take. Look at it from a competing for a high ball sense. If one person never competes for the ball, and only goes for the person who catches it, then if they hit them mid-air it's a penalty. If they are competing for the ball, no penalty. Is that rule not also to protect players from getting injured from being in a vulnerable position? So if one player gets put upside down while he competes for the ball with someone who is also doing so, accidental, no penalty, because they are playing for the ball, not the player. If Reynolds is willing to be so courageous as to still go for the kick even though there is a defender committed, in mid-air, and unable to change their trajectory, then that's fine, but he can't sook when he gets clobbered. [/QUOTE]

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