: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:20 am  

Could you please change m wrote:

Well no. Because I never thought I'd have to remember any.

Well that's a shame because your case would be strengthened if you could refer to similar situations that have occurred recently that resulted in tries being allowed to stand.

I can't think of any either which strangely leaves me to conclude they're not as common an occurrence as some would have us believe.

The decision, in any case, was the correct one.

Re: As regards the Burrow try. : Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:20 am  

ILL DIAB LEEO wrote:

GO AND F**K YOURSELF MEAT HEAD

Calm down, calm down (in my best plastic scouse) There seems to be some anger here, may i suggest some/all of you get laid/drunk or both

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:03 am  

So, the rule states that once the advantage has gone, the player is onside: ie rob put him onside when he went past him.
Also, you have to credit Stevo this one time: if this was offside, every time a fullback collects a ball put behind the play and then runs forward, the whole team are offside.
Complete bollox? Exactly. we were robbed!

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:23 am  

As I remember this law was highlighted in the days when the scrum on tackle 6 was abolished and teams started punting the ball downfield. In the early days none of the attacking team retired behind the PTB so were already most of the way down the field when the ball was kicked over their heads, ready to tackle the kick returner once he had moved the obligatory 5 metres.

Seemed a solid decision to me, as did the knock on for McGuire's no-try.

If you want to talk about incomprehensible decisions then the Ablett yellow card and the resulting no penalty for a blatant body check off the ball at the Bradford try are head and shoulders above the rest.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:19 am  

I liked the idea of the Smith being match ref and video ref. Can't blame the puppet operating the VR facility. He just did as Smith told him

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:37 am  

Longun wrote:

I liked the idea of the Smith being match ref and video ref. Can't blame the puppet operating the VR facility. He just did as Smith told him

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:26 am  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFlwTiE6Koo Hanley try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFlwTiE6Koo Hanley try.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:31 am  

Could you please change m wrote:

It says in the ruls that voulentry tackles are ilegal but you NEVER see them given. Out of interest how many on here actually knew about that rule before the Burrow no-try. Even the Bradford players didn't know.

similar to the newton voluntary tackle, then sinfield stealing the ball 1 on 1 then being penalised....

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:14 am  

Just to clarify ...

The Laws wrote:

SECTION 14
OFFSIDE

Placed onside
3. An off side player is placed onside if:
(a) an opponent moves ten metres or more with the ball.
(b) an opponent touches the ball without retaining it.
(c) one of his own team in possession of the ball runs in front of him.
(d) one of his own team kicks or knocks the ball forward and takes up a position in front of him in the field of play.
(e) he retires behind the point where the ball was last touched by one of his own team

but, in the notes ...

The Laws wrote:

“Out of Play” as opposed to “off side”

3. Players who are out of play at a play-the-ball (Section 11), a scrum (Section 12), a kick off or drop-out (Section a penalty kick (Section 13) or a free kick (Section 13) are not put “on side” in the manner described in para 3 above. (See appropriate Sections).

So nobody (Webb) can be "placed onside" under this law, its possibly a matter of the perceived advantage having passed (see earlier post).

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:37 am  

Clearly a case of "Let's Learn The Laws Week" up at Carnage .... Then try our raft of new knowledge out whenever Leeds are playing.

Given the amount of blantant used-ever-week rules that are missed during the game .... Last weekend's laughable example was the penalty against Leeds for not playing the ball properly, proceeded by at least three of the Saints players on the first set-of-six after the penalty DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING of rolling the ball between their legs and NOT touching it with their foot as the rules clearly state .... It beggars belief that this rule has suddenly just seems to have been plucked out of the air to use. Why now ? Why hasn't been applied before (I bet there are other examples this season where it as happend)