simon says said:
That no try for the supposed double movement was hilarious,as soon as it went to the video ref,I knew they would cheat us....as I said,same sh*t every year.
According to the letter of the law, the NO-TRY decision was correct. After the ball arm hits the ground you are not allowed to move it. When the Penrith player was tackled his arm hit the ground. If he'd kept his arm still he would probably have slid over the try line and scored. Unfortunately he reached out with the ball to make sure it went over the line and this is a double movement.
...so there you have it, the video ref may have been pedantic with his interpretation of the rule, but it wasn't cheating.
As for Ganson and the off side kick chasers, he was reffing the same way for both teams, so Penrith could have employed the same tactics. Actually, Ganson is usually a lot worse than that. There were several times last season when he seemed to be inventing rules all of his own. :shock:
