[LJ Fitzgerald]

Hi,

I was just in a game over the weekend where my mark was stall counting me. I was getting repeatedly bumped and fast counted the entire time. I was calling contact, contact, violation. I didn’t feel like the stall was reducing, because of the speed of the counting. Play wasn’t stopped at this point, so I called foul in an attempt to stop it (violation, foul, violation, foul). It was reaching 10 seconds, so I threw at 9 and it completed. This was a contested stall out. It went back and started at 8, though I know it’s 6 now. I completed the next pass.

I know for an uncontested violation, it does not stop play and a pass may be completed after the violation call has been made, but I used the word foul here because my mark was not stopping. Does that mean I couldn’t throw that disc or is this much allowed given the circumstances?

My second and main question is what word should you use to stop play without making a foul call? Should I have waited until a stall out and reduced the stall count to 1 in this situation?

I would appreciate the response, I couldn’t find another answer for this one.
 

[Rueben Berg]

If you are being fouled, you can call Foul and play should stop (you can’t call a foul before the throw and then continue play and make a pass).

If they are not fouling you, but are breach the marking rules egregiously or repeatably, you can call a Violation and play should stop.

If you don’t want to stop play, call the specific name of the marking infraction. But if you think they have kept going with the wrong stall count, you can’t wait until you are stalled out to call that.