[BD] Rules Queries

[Ben Blackman]

Hey BD,

Just wondered if a rules jobsworth out there might be able to help me out 
with a couple of clarifications i was looking for after MT3. I've looked at 
the rules and i'm not sure from them- i may be being stupid (wouldn't be the 
first time), but if anyone knows then i'd be interested to know.

1. Who can call a double team? An opponent of mine told me i couldn't call 
it for my teammate, but if a non-marker can call a travel (i.e. a throwing 
violation), it doesn't seem to make sense to me that a non-thrower can't 
call a marking violation. Does this apply to other marking violations- e.g. 
straddling or vision? Can one call a marker foul for one's teammate- say 
they're a beginner and don't call it if they get taken out mid-stall? 
Evidently, the thrower often has the best vision of a marker foul/violation, 
but it's quite concievable that one could occasionally have better vision 
than the thrower, e.g. of a double team on a thrower looking upfield when 
standing behind them for the dump, as happened to me at MT.

2. Slightly more unusual situation, but in the final, i saw a handler 
receive a disc near the edge of the pitch. He caught it easily in-bounds, 
but his momentum carried him such that his pivot foot was on the line. He 
then sent a beautiful huck, and no call was made. Is he obliged to a) bring 
his foot back in bounds, b) re-check the disc in, as if he had left the 
pitch significantly, he would bring his foot back to the line anyway, or c) 
is there no case for a call here? I'm just wondering, as the line is OB, but 
when the disc/player leaves the pitch, play starts with the thrower's pivot 
on the line, right?

Thanks, apologies to anyone who isn't quite enough of a geek to take an 
interest in petty rule-mongering.

Beej

DUF/LLL2/Brown at MT
#77

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