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[Rhyno]

Try

 

[Rebel]

That's such a flawed rule.... What's to stop a player purposely waiting behind the line and timing his run back right on 10 meters and blindsiding an unsuspecting playmaker.

That's exactly what Im thinking

 

[skeepe]

That's such a flawed rule.... What's to stop a player purposely waiting behind the line and timing his run back right on 10 meters and blindsiding an unsuspecting playmaker.

Common sense?

 

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warriors rarely play the ball where they're tackled, it's so frustrating & is an illegal advantage, it's bs

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

It's a very weird try. Technically correct, but the refs clearly thought it was no try and allowed play to continue. As the commentators said, if he gets tackled and the player was offside it would have been play on.

Technically correct, but the process still feels very flawed.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

warriors rarely play the ball where they're tackled, it's so frustrating & is an illegal advantage, it's bs

15 other teams say hello.

 

[Rhyno]

Super easy

 

[shiznit]

Common sense?

Common sense goes out the window when your desperate and you need a competitive advantage.

 

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15 other teams say hello.

Warriors do it best, by far.

 

[Jaegerex]

Players who are offside at the play the ball are permitted to get involved after retiring 10 metres from the point of the play the ball.

Pretty much but he doesn't even have to get back 10. The criteria is once the opponents have made 10 metres from the play the ball.

 

[Rhyno]

Good game

 

[Rebel]

Never in doubt. Foregone conclusion.

.............

 

[Tipster]

Full Time: Warriors win 36-14

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Best second half performance of the season for us, and aside from the two soft tries thought our first half set it up by making them do a lot of defensive work.

Will be a very tough game next week though against Canberra.

 

[jamaman]

should have been 50

 

[Maximus]

That's such a flawed rule.... What's to stop a player purposely waiting behind the line and timing his run back right on 10 meters and blindsiding an unsuspecting playmaker.

So your suggestion is that an offside player should never be able to be put onside?

Considering you and numerous others appear to have not even known the rule, how often do you really think this situation comes about to make it a part of the game plan? It's not like it's a new rule, so why have we not seen players do it if it's so flawed?

 

[shiznit]

So your suggestion is that an offside player should never be able to be put onside?

Considering you and numerous others appear to have not even known the rule, how often do you really think this situation comes about to make it a part of the game plan? It's not like it's a new rule, so why have we not seen players do it if it's so flawed?

Yeah... I always assumed that the offside player remained out of play until a player in the defensive line plays him onside.

Obviously the fact that it hadn't been abused before says that there's nothing wrong with it at the moment...

But my point still stands... There's nothing to stop someone from timing there run for 10meters and blindsiding someone not expecting it from the other side and it would be completely legal.

 

[shinobi]

So your suggestion is that an offside player should never be able to be put onside?

Considering you and numerous others appear to have not even known the rule, how often do you really think this situation comes about to make it a part of the game plan? It's not like it's a new rule, so why have we not seen players do it if it's so flawed?

I guess it could end up a situation like a few years back when fullbacks (David Peachey comes to mind) were holding a foot dead in-goal practically lying flat on their stomachs and touching the ball as it is in motion to make it dead so they got a 20m restart. The NRL then changed the rule. There would be some devious coaches out there trying to figure out a way to use it to their advantage.

 

[Maximus]

Yeah... I always assumed that the offside player remained out of play until a player in the defensive line plays him onside.

Obviously the fact that it hadn't been abused before says that there's nothing wrong with it at the moment...

But my point still stands... There's nothing to stop someone from timing there run for 10meters and blindsiding someone not expecting it from the other side and it would be completely legal.

The team in possession needs to run 10 metres to put him onside. So to do this deliberately, you either need your defensive line on the back foot, or for them to deliberately not touch the player with the ball. I can't see too many coaches risking it because if it goes wrong, the other team probably makes a break.

 

[shiznit]

The team in possession needs to run 10 metres to put him onside. So to do this deliberately, you either need your defensive line on the back foot, or for them to deliberately not touch the player with the ball. I can't see too many coaches risking it because if it goes wrong, the other team probably makes a break.

Nahhh I wouldn't expect it to be coached... But you could have a situation where a clever player just happens to be in the right position to pull it off actually does it.

I suppose it's all a moot point at the moment as no one has done it...