I thought you COULD promote the ball if there was still momentum in the tackle? Someone clear that up for us please?
Do we want an apology from Bill? f**k no. We want him to fix the bloody diabolical bullshit his refs keep dishing up week after week (and our team to hold onto the football).
I think the "momentum" rule is confusing a lot of people (including players), because the interpretation has changed a number of times over the years. Currently, the only way to avoid a penalty for double movement if the try scorer extends their arms, is if they would have scored anyway without the arm extension. I think its a stupid rule, but by that rule Bakuya's no try call was right.
The Sau try is anyone's guess...
The main story though is the team that made 6 line breaks to 1, 19 offloads to 9, and 31 tackle breaks to 8, missed only 8 tackles compared to 29, and ran for 243 more metres, still managed to only score a dodgy try in the last minute of the game.
I think the Knights scramble defense and edge defense on the line was outstanding, but they won't win many games that they miss 29 tackles to 8, and concede 5 extra line breaks, so I doubt they will be completely happy.
The Sharks are the most frustrating team to support- our catching of kicks, in defense and attack, has been woeful for years and remained so today. Newcastle got in 1 dodgy kick on our line and still scored off it (plus one to Carney who nearly broke them open from his catch), but the Sharks kicks were very rarely contested by our backs.
And if we ever dream of spreading the ball it is almost a given that one of our backs will drop it.
Seriously, we nearly did enough to win 3 games, but instead, through inept backs, we showed that we could make attacking kicks and line breaks every few minutes with no hope of a positive result.
I thought the forwards and halves for the Sharks were good, but the backs are barely reserve standard.
