Obstruction Rule [Spoiler]

[jamaman]

What a Joke! Tigers were shat on!!

 

[Grapple]

Anyone have the footage? I missed the game.

Seriously? The game only just finished. :lol:



Compare that obstruction call tonight with Glen Hall's dive against Manly the other week and there's your rule; Section 69a: Make it up as you go along and screw the game and fans in the arse.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

They tried that a few years ago and it totally screwed up rhe game. If everyone on earth except the video ref knew that was obstruction, the problem isn't the rule. Useless video refs are thw peoblem.

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I still think its a better solution than what we have currently. Its just a lottery.

 

[ceagle]

Any bets Harrigan again defends Hampstead?

 

[Spanner in the works]

Seriously? The game only just finished. :lol:

It is the YouTube/social media generation...

 

[the beavers]

wasnt a bad defencive decison..... ayshford turned towards the legal decoy runner.... as soon as priychard ran behind that runner dogs got an advantage....
ayshford shouldnt have had to take into account illegal play in his "defencive decision" .....

 

[Bman26]

Any bets Harrigan again defends Hampstead?

Munsie just popped up, it's paying $1.01.

 

[Slackboy72]

Another big clash and all we're talking about are the refs.
Hollywood Harrigan's head must be the size of a small moon tonight.

 

[clarency]

wasnt a bad defencive decison..... ayshford turned towards the legal decoy runner.... as soon as priychard ran behind that runner dogs got an advantage....
ayshford shouldnt have had to take into account illegal play in his "defencive decision" .....

This I can agree with. If anything it is getting lost in translation.

Listening to the commentators, they were (as too the video ref I assume) hinging the decision on whether the decoy ran into the defensive player or not.

 

[gronkathon]

wasnt a bad defencive decison..... ayshford turned towards the legal decoy runner.... as soon as priychard ran behind that runner dogs got an advantage....
ayshford shouldnt have had to take into account illegal play in his "defencive decision" .....

The really sad thing is that it is this simple.

It is this simple and yet they still cant get it right.

This is the kind of stuff you want to happen prior to rep season so it gets ironed out quickly but this has been a problem all season

 

[HowHigh]

Another big clash and all we're talking about are the refs.
Hollywood Harrigan's head must be the size of a small moon tonight.

Not taking anything away from either side, was a great game
That call just had me confused though

 

[the beavers]

to use a gould-ism...
would you be happy if that decided a grand final....

 

[Doga]

It's based off of a player impeding another, like when the attacking player runs into the defending player.

Which is exactly what we did not see. The ref got it right.

The attacking decoy ran through, granted very close to the player with the ball, but did not make contact with any defending player. It was the tigers defender who turned and made contact with the decoy. That is why it was not obstruction.

Whether you think the rule needs to be changed is another matter altogether.

Ahhh someone who knows the rule!!!

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

By the time the defender made his decision and made contact with the attacking player, the illegal advantage had already been taken.

 

[Jobdog]

to use a gould-ism...
would you be happy if that decided a grand final....

We all know it's going to ...

 

[seanoff]

that was text book obstruction. you'd put that in a video and draw it up as the best example of what not to do.

how the hell did he award a try

 

[Spanner in the works]

Just saw it. It was a clanger. It's funny, over the years we see struggling teams cop calls like that all the time. These days we are seeing it creep into the big games against the good teams. That's a big change from what has happened in the past. New refs, new coach simpler rules I think.

 

[Dragonwest]

Forget about "obstruction", it's a shephard. It's been a shephard for 100 years. Harrigan and his cronies need to stop changing the interpretation of rules.

 

[Loudstrat]

It couldnt have been more of a shepherd if there were a flock of Merinos and a hard on in Benji's shorts!

 

[lockyno1]

Make it simple. How hard it is to say....."you run through the line, peanlty". Simple. Decoys are obstructions.