Double Movements

[RufusRex]

Was really interesting last night ...

Apparantly if you make the in-goal area you can take as long as you need to take in gounding the ball

BUT

compare Hunt and Hickey ...

Both tackled short of the line - both with their momentum seemingly stopped - neither let the arm with the ball in it touch the ground.

Hunt had his try awarded and Hickey didnt ...

Curious

 

[kurt faulk]

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that's because video refs are useless pieces of sh*t.

no way hunt scored a try. that was textbook double movement - momentum stopped means tackled.

i think video refs get locked into one ruling, as in did his ball carrying arm touch the ground and forget the bigger picture.

it should have been ruled on the ground anyway by the ref as it was so obvious, like the hickey decision.

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[sando88]

i thought dat they were all no tries. sammut was held for like 5 seconds

 

[AJH]

Don't know about anyone else, but I've got no idea what the rules are for a double movement. I'm starting to wonder if the ref's actually know.

I thought previously that a player couldn't promote the football once it had touched the ground. Then Michael Jennings scored against Parra (Round 17 I think) which blew that theory. Now Hunt gets awarded a try and Hickey gets denied when the ball didn't touch the ground but momentum was essentially stopped.

Does anyone in forum-land know the rules?

Cheers
AJ

 

[sando88]

it wasnt so much double movements but da players were already held imo

 

[beave]

It changes every couple of years.

Hunts try last night, I deadset thought that looked like a double movement, it seems to be a lottery theses days.

 

[K-Man]

Don't know about anyone else, but I've got no idea what the rules are for a double movement. I'm starting to wonder if the ref's actually know.

I thought previously that a player couldn't promote the football once it had touched the ground. Then Michael Jennings scored against Parra (Round 17 I think) which blew that theory. Now Hunt gets awarded a try and Hickey gets denied when the ball didn't touch the ground but momentum was essentially stopped.

Does anyone in forum-land know the rules?

Cheers
AJ

That's how I feel these days.

The decisions are inconsistent that I find myself even questioning whether or not I knew the rules as well as I thought I did.

It's unbelievable. If they got every video ref to rule on some of these situations without being able to consult each other, the results would be scary (probably around 50-50 try/no try).

 

[moik]

Hunt's arm carrying the ball never touched the ground. Hickey's did. Both correct decisions.

 

[Danish]

Hunt's arm carrying the ball never touched the ground. Hickey's did. Both correct decisions.

Morons like to parrot this as though the ball carrying arm touching the ground is the be all and end all for a tackle to be completed.

How do you explain all those tackles where the player stays on his feet then genius?

Once momentum is stopped, the tackle is completed. Hunt had stopped dead with 2 men on him and laying flat on his side. Tackled, played on, penalty to the eels

 

[Slackboy72]

Hunt's arm carrying the ball never touched the ground. Hickey's did. Both correct decisions.

Hunt's definitely didn't touch but I thought the VR should have looked to see if Hickey's did.
That's basically the rule. Ben Creagh was denied a try earlier this year when in the process of reaching out to plant the ball his knuckles clipped the grass.

 

[sando88]

they cant go to video ref for hickeys cos ref already called held u goose, on his back n tackle completed

 

[scottyeel]

bullsh*t call to award the try to Hunt.

 

[DeeJ]

It reminded me of a union try.

 

[Red Bear]

Morons like to parrot this as though the ball carrying arm touching the ground is the be all and end all for a tackle to be completed.

How do you explain all those tackles where the player stays on his feet then genius?

Once momentum is stopped, the tackle is completed. Hunt had stopped dead with 2 men on him and laying flat on his side. Tackled, played on, penalty to the eels

I thought hayne fell off him thus he had every right to put it down

 

[Danish]

I thought hayne fell off him thus he had every right to put it down

You'd have a point if he didn't have another player wrapped around his legs.