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2024 R2 Fri - Penrith 26-18 Parramatta @ BlueBet

Round 2: Penrith v Parramatta

  • Penrith Panthers

    Votes: 10 55.6%
  • Parramatta Eels

    Votes: 8 44.4%
  • Draw after Golden Point

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .

nick87

Coach
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Amazing run from Leota. He's a very under-rated part of the panthers machine i reckon
 

skeepe

Immortal
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48,306
I was waiting to see how they'd rule it in this circumstance... i dont know why it's not a penalty
By the rule he's in front of the play the ball before the ball goes past

And to be clear i dont think that SHOULD be a penalty but curious as to why it's not

And the answer might be that ive misinterpreted what the rule actually is!
They tinker with it so much it’s hard to keep up.

The rule is that the players between the dummy half and the kicker cannot advance past the ruck before the ball is kicked. Based on that I’d say he was 100% downtown and should have been penalised. I mean he arrived before the ball did.
 

Bazal

Post Whore
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102,834
Simonsson failed his HIA so we gotta have a backrower in the centres but it's cool cos Luai is on report
 

Maximus

Coach
Messages
13,667
Isn't it only a downtown issue if he's ahead of the PTD when the ball's played? I was cringing cos Parra but I thought he ran a decoy off the PTB...

No, it's if they move beyond the PTB before it's kicked.


It's not what the rule was intended for, but a clear breach.
 

skeepe

Immortal
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48,306
Wtf front rowers shouldn’t have footwork like that
I played local footy around the same time Mick Weyman was coming through. I only played against him once, but I still remember wishing that he had footwork like that, because then he wouldn’t have run so hard in a straight line and trampled me like I was a fly hitting a windscreen.

you don’t forget a flogging like that.
 

84 Baby

Referee
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29,622
Well game plan is clear. Run at Luai, get a penalty, run through a gap in their middle, put ball under black dot
 

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