Diving Catch - 2 players on same team

[Robotorz]

The player is superb at diving to catch balls others cannot reach. The
player can attempt to catch any pass, kick off or crowd throw-in, but not
bouncing ball, that would land in an empty square in one of his tackle
zones as if it had landed in his own square without leaving his current
square. If there are two or more players attempting to use this skill then
they get in each other’s way and neither can use it.

We had a league evening tonight and following problem occured:

In a skaven vs. Goblin game the Goblin coach passed the ball to Goblin A. The pass was inaccurate and bounced between Goblin A and Goblin B

xxB
xOx
xAx

O = Ball, A and B are Goblins

Goblin-Coach decided to use Diving Catch with Goblin B as this goblin still had movement left (A blitzed). THe Skaven coach now protested and said that both goblins need to use this skill and therefore cant use it.

I ruled that the player can choose to use this skill if he wants to use or not.

The game was won because of this decission and so the skaven coach is now realy mad at me.

Was I right to rule this that way?

[Snew]

...and they said it would never come up. I am vindicated.

You called it right. We just had this discussion.

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Scroll down to my post halfway down pg1. That's about where it starts.

[Robotorz]

thank you for your quick awnser

well we are all not speaking english as our mother tongue so ... sometimes its hard to be correct on the wording

[Digger Goreman]

Unless the skill description says otherwise, you can always choose whether or not to use a skill (on a player by player basis)....