2. Offside offence
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
The following criteria should be used, as appropriate, as indicators that a player was in control of the ball and, as a result, can be considered to have ‘deliberately played' the ball:
· A ball moving on the ground is easier to play than a ball in the air
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Questions that ask it 1
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