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[dindy]

Hi All .Hope someone do not mind answering a question for me as I do not want to joining a forum just to ask one question only.

I see England won gold at the commonwealth netball final which was terrific. We were awarded a penalty at the last second and even though I have watched it about 10 times I still cannot work out why a penalty was given? I have looked rules but not sure what I am looking at. This is only my curiosity getting the better of me and no other reason.Thanks for any info

[ju-ju- Graduate10]

No idea... sorry!!

[Tasha99 Graduate10]

Maybe you should find a netball site on Facebook or something?

[dindy Graduate10 in reply to Tasha99]

Netball site on Facebook,now that is a good idea,thanks.

[misswobble Graduate10]

I watched it, but I don’t understand the rule either

Mind you same with football! We had a straight red on Saturday that in the next Second wasn’t 🤷‍♀️

Let us know if you find out The commonwealth games website might have the answer

[ancientrunner Graduate10]

I thought I heard a netball lady discussing it after say the Australian next to the girl who was shooting should have been further away from her. So it sounded like an obstruction thing. I remember because I thought she said 5 metres and thought I must have misheard, so who knows if that is right.

[CitizenP]

When the England player had possession of the ball and was about to take a shot, the Australian defender isn’t far enough away from her whilst she was trying to defend (waving her arms), she needs to be 3feet away.

Love netball 😊

Hope this makes sense!!

[dindy Graduate10]

Hi All. Thanks for all you input. I did try on facebook to find the answer but as expected I had to join the group 1st so I did not bother.

So it was obstruction, 3 feet sound more like 5 metres as when I looked at the replay again there were 2 Australian players near the English player. The line ref only pointed to the Australian player next to our player and our did look like she was obstructed.