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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3326583, member: 1899"] For starters that was a different administration. Also that period is looked back on with rose coloured glasses. The intention was great but the application was terrible and often calls would only get made to bail teams out. There were so many occasions where a team would drop the ball cold in the centre of the field only to receive a penalty because the winger was half a fraction in front. It had no bearing on the play and it would have been let go if the mistake didn't occur but that's the way they ruled it. The set restarts are problematic but not in the way you're suggesting. The officials are very hesitant to blow them and will generally only concede the ones the defence is happy to give away. It's a broken system but if anything they're minimising the officials influence on the game. [/QUOTE]

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