User talk:Staphylococcus

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[edit] Field hockey

Your edit was generally very good, whole thing had got very bogged down, and needed a complete re-vamp. However, in my view you made some factual errors (or possibly just over-simplifications, or used too local a viewpoint), so I've straightened those out, and generally converted yards to metres as this is what the rulebook now uses and in some cases this actually makes a difference 5m is actually further than 5 yards for example.

I also noticed that on this page your leave a message link was actually pointing to User talk:AYArktos, rather than this page, so I've straightened that out too. Anway, feel free to shoot my changes down. David Underdown 16:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks David, I think "all of the above" would apply (factual errors etc) - I genuinely did think that PS subs were banned though... should read the rule book more often I guess ;) (and go to bed as well - its 0230 here !!!) Must be getting tired I think... Thanks a lot for proof reading that for me, I hope the changes I've made will be (generally) appreciated as it did look very dysfunctional when I came across it.

Edit: also with the drop off procedure - we've used that at domestic levels in Australia (at least that I've seen) - my teams don't play in many finals unfortunately.... ;)

Cheers, Staphylococcus 16:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

As I said on the whole your changes were extrememly necessary, but I'm an umpire so being a pedant comes with the territory. I assumed you did have experience of that particular tie-break mechanism being used, which is why i left it as an alternative, but international matches (and domestic competitions here in England) use "straight" golden goal - for example at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne England men lost the semi (or was it the bronze medal match, I forget) to Pakistan on Golden Goal after about 2 minutes of extra-time. David Underdown 08:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)