Re: Batley (A) : Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:48 pm  

Never said penalties for dissent. Was merely suggesting that accepting decisions pays dividends

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:11 am  

Just on the try before half-time. Pass was lateral/backwards but several bounces took the ball forward. It is the pass - not the bounces - that count in determining whether it is forward. Seemed like a fair try to me at the time and also now having watched it back.

EDIT: I'm not even on the right thread. Sorry.

[brian2]

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:09 am  

Just on the try before half-time. Pass was lateral/backwards but several bounces took the ball forward. It is the pass - not the bounces - that count in determining whether it is forward. Seemed like a fair try to me at the time and also now having watched it back.

EDIT: I'm not even on the right thread. Sorry.

Can't believe that is the right intepretation of the rule, sure Mickey will correct me

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:41 am  

As long as the ball initially travels backwards that's all that matters, it makes no difference which way the ball bounces after it hits the ground to a knock on call, initial travel back means it is not a knock on

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:13 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

As long as the ball initially travels backwards that's all that matters, it makes no difference which way the ball bounces after it hits the ground to a knock on call, initial travel back means it is not a knock on

Thanks for the clarification. That's what I had thought, but I'd seen some decisions in games in the last couple of years which made me think perhaps it had been changed.

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:19 am  

The difficult one is when a player is facing his own line, it's assumed that any ball dropped must be backwards, not the case, the ball can come through the hands and end up travelling fwd to the direction of play.
If the ball comes out as much as officials do not guess sometimes it's a judgement call, if the ball has come out then you have to make a decision one way or the other

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:27 am  

Makes it hard to make the call sometimes, if ball comes out and it's not obviously backwards if it then bobbles forward chances are it's likely to go against the person dropping the ball.
Not forgetting any dropped ball after the tackle is complete irrelevant of direction of ball travel is a knock on.

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:18 pm  

Thank goodness looks like we have started well up in batley

[brian2]

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:34 pm  

Still find that astonishing, but accept the experts.

On a different point, who is the commentator on the radio, w
He is a joke.

Appalling penalty count, but we are winning comfortably!

Re: Batley (A) : Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:47 pm  

Pretty good 1st half scoreline.

And we're attacking down hill 2nd half so should be easier.... In theory