This has definitely increased in the last few years to the point it has become a thing. Get near the oncoming player and plant a foot on theirs. It ****ing hurts, and the offender generally gets away with it.
This must be a deliberate play, one that is coached. What the ****?
The officials need to stamp down on it.
No poll, because we all know this is wrong. My question is: am I right in thinking this is something now on the increase?
It has been around a long time of course. I was playing against a senior team (40+) of jocks (jentlemen of S-cottish origin) in Vancouver, in 1985, and one of the dirty b'stards stamped on my foot during a melee at a corner. It was quite deliberate, and I was outraged. But...it was all seen as part and parcel, man's game, etc. I considered it an assault and I do now. So when will action be taken vis a vis the bloody rules and the sodding officials?
This must be a deliberate play, one that is coached. What the ****?
The officials need to stamp down on it.
No poll, because we all know this is wrong. My question is: am I right in thinking this is something now on the increase?
It has been around a long time of course. I was playing against a senior team (40+) of jocks (jentlemen of S-cottish origin) in Vancouver, in 1985, and one of the dirty b'stards stamped on my foot during a melee at a corner. It was quite deliberate, and I was outraged. But...it was all seen as part and parcel, man's game, etc. I considered it an assault and I do now. So when will action be taken vis a vis the bloody rules and the sodding officials?
