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At a club game over the weekend and the referee was giving players a limit of 15 seconds for scorable frees from the time the whistle was blown to allow the kick be taken. Whistle sometimes being blown before the kicker had the ball even placed. I'm aware of the 15 seconds limit on an advanced mark. But is there a time limit on a regular free/45 attempts? NoDice (Wexford) - Posts: 1 - 16/09/2024 20:14:36 2570243 Link
Replying To NoDice: "At a club game over the weekend and the referee was giving players a limit of 15 seconds for scorable frees from the time the whistle was blown to allow the kick be taken. Whistle sometimes being blown before the kicker had the ball even placed. I'm aware of the 15 seconds limit on an advanced mark. But is there a time limit on a regular free/45 attempts?" Don't know the answer to that but I was at a game where a forward fielded the ball on the edge of the square, put up his arm for a mark, got the whistle almost straight away and had the ball in the back of the net before everyone else realised what was hapoening. Goal stood. Should be no directly score able mark allowed inside the 40, to my mind. Ruining the game. Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1271 - 16/09/2024 20:31:43 2570247 Link
Replying To NoDice: "At a club game over the weekend and the referee was giving players a limit of 15 seconds for scorable frees from the time the whistle was blown to allow the kick be taken. Whistle sometimes being blown before the kicker had the ball even placed. I'm aware of the 15 seconds limit on an advanced mark. But is there a time limit on a regular free/45 attempts?" There's no defined time limit in the Rule Book. Referee does have the power to cancel the free and throw the ball in instead if he feels the free-taker in wasting time in delaying the taking of the free, but there's no hard and fast rule about how long he should allow. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2622 - 16/09/2024 23:23:17 2570269 Link
Replying To NoDice: "At a club game over the weekend and the referee was giving players a limit of 15 seconds for scorable frees from the time the whistle was blown to allow the kick be taken. Whistle sometimes being blown before the kicker had the ball even placed. I'm aware of the 15 seconds limit on an advanced mark. But is there a time limit on a regular free/45 attempts?" If there is mot, there should be. Was at a game yesterday where frees and marks were taking close to 30 seconds to take and not a word from the referee. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 387 - 16/09/2024 23:44:15 2570275 Link
Replying To NoDice: "At a club game over the weekend and the referee was giving players a limit of 15 seconds for scorable frees from the time the whistle was blown to allow the kick be taken. Whistle sometimes being blown before the kicker had the ball even placed. I'm aware of the 15 seconds limit on an advanced mark. But is there a time limit on a regular free/45 attempts?" They make it up as they go along…. sometimes it takes goalkeepers 60 seconds to trudge up to take frees and 45's… You should know at this stage that there is no rule in the GAA that referees all implement the same way…!!! ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3029 - 17/09/2024 07:07:11 2570278 Link
Replying To ForeverBlue2: "They make it up as they go along…. sometimes it takes goalkeepers 60 seconds to trudge up to take frees and 45's… You should know at this stage that there is no rule in the GAA that referees all implement the same way…!!!" Yes, terrible how some match officials make it up as they go along. Like an umpire making up his own rule if he thinks the ball has gone directly over a post, instead of actually going by the Rule Book. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2622 - 17/09/2024 09:56:01 2570302 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "Yes, terrible how some match officials make it up as they go along. Like an umpire making up his own rule if he thinks the ball has gone directly over a post, instead of actually going by the Rule Book." Not the same at all … I make a judgement call that the ball is either going to go between the posts or wide if it actually hit the post… All referees Appreciate that as it makes their job easier… not like the numpties in Croke park who are afraid to make a decision.. leave it to Hawk eye and then cost a team a score like Comers shot in the All Ireland final…! That's a far better way of doing things… I suppose ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3029 - 17/09/2024 10:10:14 2570307 Link
Replying To ForeverBlue2: "They make it up as they go along…. sometimes it takes goalkeepers 60 seconds to trudge up to take frees and 45's… You should know at this stage that there is no rule in the GAA that referees all implement the same way…!!!" Time to stop goalies taking these frees. It is a time wasting exercise eslinchickenmaryland (Leitrim) - Posts: 274 - 17/09/2024 10:46:29 2570317 Link
Replying To eslinchickenmaryland: "Time to stop goalies taking these frees. It is a time wasting exercise" Any free should be taken within 30 seconds (45 if taken from the ground) and 15 seconds for a mark 45m restart should get 60 seconds tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1197 - 18/09/2024 07:44:58 2570497 Link
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Any free should be taken within 30 seconds (45 if taken from the ground) and 15 seconds for a mark 45m restart should get 60 seconds" Ryan O'Donoghue and Cillian O'Connor before take about a minute to take a free. A goalie would take quicker. LimerickForLiam24 (Limerick) - Posts: 144 - 18/09/2024 09:39:25 2570513 Link
Hopefully a rule will come in to stop keepers from taking 45's and such…. It's shambolic that outfield players can't kick a ball from the ground… ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3029 - 18/09/2024 10:06:00 2570516 Link
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Any free should be taken within 30 seconds (45 if taken from the ground) and 15 seconds for a mark 45m restart should get 60 seconds" 30 seconds is far too long imo eslinchickenmaryland (Leitrim) - Posts: 274 - 18/09/2024 12:24:10 2570554 Link
Oh cool another problem that doesn't really exist being actively discussed by people who love to whinge. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8157 - 18/09/2024 12:58:56 2570558 Link
Replying To TheFlaker: "Oh cool another problem that doesn't really exist being actively discussed by people who love to whinge." New to a forum? eslinchickenmaryland (Leitrim) - Posts: 274 - 19/09/2024 12:32:03 2570732 Link
Replying To TheFlaker: "Oh cool another problem that doesn't really exist being actively discussed by people who love to whinge." Being discussed because a referee implemented this non existent rule in your view… try and keep up .. good lad..! ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3029 - 19/09/2024 13:09:50 2570738 Link
Replying To eslinchickenmaryland: "New to a forum?" Hey lad still waiting on you to post those polls that don't exist on the Non GAA forum. Cheers. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8157 - 19/09/2024 13:16:40 2570741 Link
Replying To ForeverBlue2: "Being discussed because a referee implemented this non existent rule in your view… try and keep up .. good lad..!" And in same thread you are moaning about other stuff that has nothing to do with the original post. Talk to Joe. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8157 - 19/09/2024 13:41:27 2570750 Link
If just before time is up a ref give an attacking team a free kick does the ref have to tell a free kick taker its the last kick of the game or last play of the game or can the linesman tell him. 10DLSAM (Derry) - Posts: 266 - 23/09/2024 19:14:32 2571515 Link
Replying To TheFlaker: "And in same thread you are moaning about other stuff that has nothing to do with the original post. Talk to Joe." Only made a reply to someone who went off topic…! ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3029 - 24/09/2024 10:05:40 2571558 Link
Replying To 10DLSAM: "If just before time is up a ref give an attacking team a free kick does the ref have to tell a free kick taker its the last kick of the game or last play of the game or can the linesman tell him." Fact is nobody has to tell the free-taker that. The referee may choose to tell him, but is under no obligation to do so. As for a linesman, he has no role in timekeeping, and so from that point of view he can't definitively tell the free-taker if the referee is just going to allow the free to be taken, or allow another passage of play as well. If this refers to a specific incident where a free-taker asked a linesman and got the answer "I can't tell you that", I reckon what the linesman meant was "I can't tell you that because I don't know for sure because I don't know when the referee intends to blow the final whistle". He wouldn't have meant "I can't tell you that because I'm forbidden by the rules from doing so". Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2622 - 24/09/2024 11:11:57 2571583 Link