I take your point about it being hard to call a foul for conferring but if you scrap the rule entirleey and allow conferring on every shot then games will take forever to complete.
Your opinion has a valid point and you can argue that also body language can give signals to your partner on what ball you would like them to select .
We could probably go on and on talking about this and have ways of seeking an unfair advantage over your opponents.
The present rule does work no conferring during a visit only at the begining, imagine conferring after every shot how long it would take to complete a game.
Edited by sparks on 01-07-2009 16:10
I agree with what you say, you will never be able to completely stop people from communicating with each other.
I like to walk around to where I'm trying to leave the white and line up the next shot, but under these rules that could be construed as me telling my partner what to do next. I suppose there are teams out there who will even come up with their own little signals and codes, but if you ask me it's a friendly league and going that far is just sad. If people are going to call a foul on any team for apologising to the incoming player after a sh!t shot then they're taking it far too seriously.
Personally I don't really have any problem with the current rules and if they can beat us even with conferring then good luck to them. I'm not sure it makes a huge difference to the outcome as they still have to make the shots.
