It's one of the more obscure rules in the Elite Division rulebook — goalkeepers get six seconds to release the ball before a free kick is awarded inside the box — and it almost never gets enforced strictly enough to matter. Almost.
With his side leading 1–0 in the 89th minute and time running down, a goalkeeper was penalised for holding the ball marginally too long, conceding a free kick from which the away side equalised in stoppage time. Replays showed the delay at somewhere between six and seven seconds — close enough that both managers left the ground convinced the officials had got it wrong, in opposite directions.
The losing manager called it "a technicality deciding two points that shouldn't have been up for grabs." The away manager, whose side salvaged a draw from it, called it "a rule that exists for a reason — you don't get to ignore it just because it's inconvenient."
Alliance Division goalkeepers, for context, face no such formal limit — referees there simply ask a keeper informally to "get on with it" after around fifteen seconds. Whether the Elite Division's stricter, stopwatch-enforced version of the rule is fit for purpose is now being debated everywhere from phone-ins to the referees' own governing committee.