Quote from: Gianni on Today at 10:27:10 AMQuote from: JoG2 on May 16, 2024, 10:57:46 AMGianni - Google GAA Official Guide 2024 part 2. Download the pdf. Football rules from page 60 to 122.The problem is that the manual does not help solve all my situations that I have written. I have already read it but it didn't help me.QuoteBare in mind as we've seen on here, the referee's handbook within the GAA Learning Portal has more important detail on some rules #minefieldIs there a referee manual? Maybe a casebook but where could I find it?Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 16, 2024, 11:02:12 AMOther question:So if a player holds the ball with two hands or even with one hand and his chest, can the ball only be stolen with an open hand? I notice a real difficulty in stealing the ball in this game, because being able to hold the ball in your hands makes it almost impossible to steal the ball, because in football there is more precarious control, whereas in rugby the control is absolute but there is tackle.
The ball may be knocked from an opponent's
hand(s) by flicking it with the open hand
But when the ball is released or is bouncing or soccer juggling, i.e. I mean when the ball is not in contact with the hand, can it be stolen by touching it or grabbing it with both hands?
You can't wrestle the ball away from an opponent if he has it in his possession (both hands) if the ball is open/unprotected then it can be tackled/flicked punched away or taken cleanly
What do you think of my other doubts?
Please could anyone explain me what do Showing the Ball and Turning Twice with the ball mean?
Holds with two hands and if wrestled from the hands its a free for the person in possession of the ball. If the ball is 'popped' from his possession if he was holding it with one hand or two, with an open hand that's ok, the term stripping or wrestling it from possession is what we are looking at, that's a foul.
Gave a free the other day, lad won the ball but made contact with the player first around the neck. Had I been standing on the other side of that tackle I would not have called the free as from the other angle it would have looked like a clean take of the ball. But because of my positioning I was lucky enough to see that