In the still, is the right back pointing at the offending player? No one else appears to notice as there's no appeal. Not only in the opposition half at kick off, but looked offside as well with the AR not in line with the last defender.
Looks very much pre-planned and they got away with it!
The match situation was a bit interesting. This was actually the second attempt at that kickoff.
The first time around, the referee was in a more appropriate spot (about 7-10 yards outside the centre circle). The team kicking off began their motion for the kickoff, at which time 4 defending players rushed the centre mark, getting within 5 yards before a kick was actually made. The player that's off in the other half of play started moving in that direction.
Ref blew his whistle, moved into the centre circle to get things back in order, everyone moved back to their positions, but the one player never returned. With all attention on the centre circle at that point of time due to the shenanigans... player wandering out of position missed by everyone.
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