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Player receives treatment from a teammate, need to leave the field?

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Say a player suffers from cramping, ref stops the play, one of the teammates comes and stretches his/her leg to help with the recovery, do you consider it a kind of treatment and asks the player to leave and re-enter?

The typical case would be that a physio comes in to asses and/or treat the player, and you normally ask the player to leave and re-enter. The point here is whether a treatment from another on field player can also be considered a treatment?

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Firstly, referee only stops play for serious injuries and generally cramping is not considered serious injury. Though your question is still valid.

Wording of Law 5 requires player to leave the field only after a physio/doctor has been authorised to enter the field. So the requirement to leave is not because of the treatment, but because of authorising the physio to enter. (Law 5 also requires the player to leave the field if play is stopped for serious injury which is a bit of ambiguity/contradiction).

In practical terms I would look into the purpose of this law which is to deter players from 'time wasting' as well as allowing continuity in the game by making sure treatment is done off the filed.

So the law answer is no. The practical answer is, if you think the players are doing it deliberately, either don't stop/delay play or ask them to leave once they are up.
 
I think they harmonize. If play is stopped for the injury, the player should exit. If play is stopped for another reason and help is summoned, the player should also leave. Of course, like so many things in the Laws, it could be written better.
 
What I have been doing is whenever I see a player lying on the ground and it is not a promising attack, I stop play to check the status of the player and then restart with a drop ball. Should I modify this behaviour to only stop on obvious serious injury?

one said:
Firstly, referee only stops play for serious injuries and generally cramping is not considered serious injury. Though your question is still valid.

Wording of Law 5 requires player to leave the field only after a physio/doctor has been authorised to enter the field. So the requirement to leave is not because of the treatment, but because of authorising the physio to enter. (Law 5 also requires the player to leave the field if play is stopped for serious injury which is a bit of ambiguity/contradiction).

In practical terms I would look into the purpose of this law which is to deter players from 'time wasting' as well as allowing continuity in the game by making sure treatment is done off the filed.

So the law answer is no. The practical answer is, if you think the players are doing it deliberately, either don't stop/delay play or ask them to leave once they are up.
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CrossRef said:
What I have been doing is whenever I see a player lying on the ground and it is not a promising attack, I stop play to check the status of the player and then restart with a drop ball. Should I modify this behaviour to only stop on obvious serious injury?
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Stop play when there is a potential serious injury.
Law 5 says to allow play to continue until the ball is out of play 'if a player is only slightly injured'. So you need to be confident it is not a serious injury in order to continue.
 
CaptainsPlease said:
Stop play when there is a potential serious injury.
Law 5 says to allow play to continue until the ball is out of play 'if a player is only slightly injured'. So you need to be confident it is not a serious injury in order to continue.
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To add to this, generally the bar for what is considered serious is lowered as the level of the game goes down. For example in a U9 low devision game pretty much every injury is serious 😳 😆 or there is a good chance you'll have parents running on to check on their little one while the game is running 🤣.
 
one said:
To add to this, generally the bar for what is considered serious is lowered as the level of the game goes down. For example in a U9 low devision game pretty much every injury is serious 😳 😆 or there is a good chance you'll have parents running on to check on their little one while the game is running 🤣.
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I would stop play in a neutral area for all injuries in junior football, unless it was obviously tactical or persistent.

Player safety is more important.

In fact I would extend this to the lower levels of grass roots, Vets etc, it is recreational football for enjoyment after all.
 
DJIC said:
In fact I would extend this to the lower levels of grass roots, Vets etc, it is recreational football for enjoyment after all.
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I often wondered if anyone has told them that when I refereed those games 😉
 
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