A hate the rule that you retake a throw in if the ball never goes in. That should be deemed out of play or a foul throw.
Here's a couple questions for our refs:
A trick set-piece is going through our age group (which means it's already no longer effective). Two girls go out to the corner kick. The coach yells for one of the girls to take the kick. The other jogs away dragging a marking defender with her since. As she's doing that, she touches the ball with her foot. The remaining player then dribbles the ball in with the idea that the touch was the corner kick. A corner kick must be kicked. What is the current definition of "kick?" Is a touch enough, or does it have to be a rotation? Also, a coach told me they ran that play and a ref called it a rekick because you aren't allowed to trick the other team. That seemed odd. The coach was pretty sure the ref was tricked and blew the whistle think the corner kicker just dribbled the ball in.
The Laws say, kicked and moves to be put in play. (not into the field of play). A touch/tap on top of the ball does not constitute this. There is nothing about 1/2 or 1 rotation. If they don't do it correctly, and the second player starts dribbling the ball, the correct restart is an Indirect Free Kick for the other team. (I call it a 2 touch foul, same for KO's, FK's, PKs, GK's and even Throw Ins. )
A hate the rule that you retake a throw in if the ball never goes in. That should be deemed out of play or a foul throw.
Similar to the GK (and not leaving the Penalty Area), if the ball is never in play, then there cannot be any fouls. Although HS rules don't agree.
Must a player automatically give 10 yards on a restart, or does the kicking player have to ask for 10? We cheat a bit and give like 6 yards. We had a ref recently mark off 10 proactively. Our head coach was upset saying that the other team needs to ask for 10. I don't know which is right.
Yes, the team that committed the foul MUST give 10 yards. They committed the foul, they don't get privileges in preventing a "Free Kick" from being free. However, the offense does not have to wait for them, they can start as quickly as they want. If they do ask or other situations arise (giving YC for the foul, etc.) the ref will make it "Ceremonial", marking off the 10 yards. Restart on the whistle. Failure To Respect the Distance is a YC offense.
When the goalie walks the ball up to the 18 to punt, when is it a hand ball? If the ball is still in their hand while the ball is over the line, I'd think that is a handball. But I had a ref tell me it's fine if the goal still had a foot in the box.
It's where the ball is. Doesn't matter where the player is. If the ball is outside the Penalty Area (18) and "anyone" deliberately handles it, it's a FK. However the GK can kick the ball outside the PA just like everyone else. So if he/she releases it from inside the PA and kicks it outside the PA, that's fine. And the line is part of the PA.