In most cases the runner has submitted and the tackle is over.
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In most cases the runner has submitted and the tackle is over.
No i mean the runner has run into the d and is driven back and there is still momentum. In my day you couldn't be picked up and carried and providing the player isn't as you said laying on the groung submitting then you could keep driving him backwards. It happened a few times tonight in the South's game.
so your saying as soon as he's driven backwards the ref should call held... interesting
If that's what you think I said in that sentence I cannot help you mate. Do you really want our game to descend to 13 blokes grabbing a winger and attempting to push him down the field for 60 metres, and in response the other side pushing back with their 12 players?
You're giving the coaches in our game far too much 'benefit of the doubt'. You don't think there's a few coaches that would turn it into a regular tactic and it will end up a fiasco because it would be successful?
I thought a few years ago a player got carried back 20m and dumped on his head so they banned it from then on.
Is there a time before the whistle where they have to blow a penalty? Or is it to the refs discretion?
There's always the "unsportsmanlike" clause in the rule book.
The Manly try in the first half with the textbook obstruction that was awarded a try
No one wonders about that, they wonder why the refs and bunker can’t see what the rest of us see.
