receiving balls

cleminho · Post by **cleminho** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:51 pm

Hi there!

When a player receives the ball from a pass or a hand off, must he be the next player to play or can we do the receiving roll, play other players and play him later on the turn? Nothing is said about this in the LRB.

What about an interception? I mean, for example, if a player who is receiving the ball must play before the others, when a player intercepts, must he also be the first player to move at the beginning of the turn of the coach who has just intercepted.
(If you tell me that a player who just receives a ball is not obliged to play first, then forget this last part about interception).

Thank you very much for your help. It is a very important topic for the strategy.

Cleminho.

Valen · Post by **Valen** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:54 pm

No, receiving the ball, is part of the passing/hand off action, so you can move the rest of your players then move him last if you like.

And the interceptor does not have too go first in your turn.

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:10 pm

gees valen answered a rules question correctly

whats the world coming too ;]

Valen · Post by **Valen** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:20 pm

bugger off cheeky

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:46 pm

What he really means is that catching a ball is NOT an action. So you can continue with other players before you move the player who caught the ball. This unless he had allready taken an action before in that turn of course!

Just a little extra for those foreigners who don't understand English!

I mean I understood you perfectly Valen!

Valen · Post by **Valen** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:24 pm

No problem.

Asmodan · Post by **Asmodan** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:36 pm

Yeah valen got it right

Players who receive the ball don´t have to move directly afterwards.

ryani · Post by **ryani** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:08 pm

In fact you can move them before the pass, as well--this is often useful for elves if you are already marked by a couple players and you can dodge out into 0 TZs and make it to the end zone... move the receiver to the end zone, then pass to him there.

Beware if you fail, though, because you're going to get pushed into the crowd for sure :)

-- ryan

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:00 pm

um from what you said there sounds like you are moving the thrower then moving the catcher and then passing

once you move the thrower you have to pass then before you do anything else with another player

you can move the catcher to the endzone first and then move the thrower and pass, maybe thats what you were doing and you just wrote it out wrong

but the way you wrote it is against the rules