Staging for a free will be reportable?

[Prospector_1]

Caro said: "Good call, Barry" ???

[gerco]

it will be very hard to monitor and pick up, near impossible I'll say. And from what I saw on saturday night, Kurt Tippett is my top for the first one reported. Him or Joel Selwood.

[The3rd]

I don't think Joel Selwood stages for free's. He's constantly ramming his head into packs and it forces a lot of head high contact.

But i agree, how are the umps going to pick up a staged free accurately?
They have enough trouble determining normal free kicks, imagine adding this new rule in, it will be chaos.

[giddeyupbigal]

gerco please spare us your useless ramblings about tippett.

p.s. joel selwood is the worst and seeking for a free - with gus monfries

[gerco]

gerco please spare us your useless ramblings about tippett.

p.s. joel selwood is the worst and seeking for a free - with gus monfries

In spite of your unwarranted and vicious attack on me, I agree. Joel Selwood doesn't stage for free kicks, he actively seeks them thru his habit of keeping his head down just a touch longer than most players do.

[2Fat2Old]

Gerco Gerco Gerco!!!
Staging for a free is when a player takes a dive when nobody has touched you (Soccer style). Not when you have your head down in an effort to win the hard ball at ground level. If you recieve contact above the shoulders you will always be protected. Making sure the umpire sees the head high contact is not staging due to that one word - CONTACT.

[Teel]

After watching last nights game I'd hope there would be a ban on diving as such and funnily enough the EPL has a rule against diving think it's straight red now... not certain though

[roo boys!]

What would everyone be sitting on the sidelines in the first five minutes with red cards for diving?