The difficult one is when a player is facing his own line, it's assumed that any ball dropped must be backwards, not the case, the ball can come through the hands and end up travelling fwd to the direction of play.
If the ball comes out as much as officials do not guess sometimes it's a judgement call, if the ball has come out then you have to make a decision one way or the other

Makes it hard to make the call sometimes, if ball comes out and it's not obviously backwards if it then bobbles forward chances are it's likely to go against the person dropping the ball.
Not forgetting any dropped ball after the tackle is complete irrelevant of direction of ball travel is a knock on.

Thank goodness looks like we have started well up in batley

Still find that astonishing, but accept the experts.

On a different point, who is the commentator on the radio, w
He is a joke.

Appalling penalty count, but we are winning comfortably!

Pretty good 1st half scoreline.

And we're attacking down hill 2nd half so should be easier.... In theory

Mickyb1234 On Friday Toulouse number 6 received a head injury and was treated on the pitch for a number of minutes. He was bleeding and they strapped his head, he was then allowed to play on. Now can I have your judgement as a referee. As blood was on his shirt and he received a head injury am I right in thinking a. he should have changed the shirt and b. he should have received a 10 minutes assessment off the pitch, appreciate if you could clarify for me.

Well done another win

Great win, this weekend has got us back on track, boost to points difference, no injuries by the sound of it. Get Battye, Ackerman back and we can push on!

Who's Ackerman?

Another great win, looks like we're getting back on track!
COYB!

Askers, stupid IPad on train and spellcheck or stupid user one of the two or both..........

Sounds like a good solid win. Anyone there got any feedback

Re the head injury. Not every head injury has to have a 15 min concussion assessment. In the pro game they have to have a qualified doctor. It is the doctor who makes the call on the pitch if he feels a concussion assessment is required. The referee can call the doctor onto the pitch if a player shows any signs. A cut does not necessarily mean the player will need the 15 min off field.
I believe excess blood on a shirt

Damn hit send early. Blood on a shirt I believe protocol is that the shirt should be changed.
If the doctor enters the field of play the referee has to stop play unlike other injuries where you can play on.
The 15 min is mandatory, if they are not cleared back by the doctor it becomes one of the 10. If they are cleared after 15 mins then they can come back on at that point, if they don't come back on it becomes 1 of the 10

Haha. Ackers !!!icon_smile.gif

Any standouts today? Any worries? What was the completion rate

Very very good team effort.

We played cohesive, structured rugby league with everyone knowing the others role.

Playing up the slope in first half, we scored 3 good tries and then - sorry Mick, sounding like a broken record - the ref came into his own at 16-0 - penalty after penalty after penalty, decent kicking to in goal resulting in goal line drop outs. My facts are probably skewed but we must have defended 4, 5 maybe 6 consecutive sets deep in our half. Total commitment. And Mick all I expect is consistency - there never is any, and please dont try and argue the toss, I am a qualified referee and understand how it works.

Second half they scored a poor try and we then crushed them.

Every man played well, but for me the halves were excellent and Ioane a collusus.

Hey plum refs only give the penalties they are not the ones that commit the offences!
Anyhow it is what it is.
Good to hear we put a good performance together, back to back wins over Easter can get a turning point in the season.
Nice to see both wingers on the scoreboard.
Thanks for the summary mate

Sorry, its isnt what it isnt.

You arent following me.

Fine penalise us - I am not claiming he got any of our penalties wrong BUT, and this is the key, he's set his benchmark, so when the oppo does similar, shouldnt they be penalised ?

Key word is similar! Why did we start getting pinged at a certain point in the game? Probably because the ref had been talking to the players telling them to stand square, move quicker, work harder on the 10 Mtrs, if they fail to respond then he starts penalising until they do! If they start to respond to the chat they will not get pinged as much. That is what happens to both teams.

thanks Mickyb1234 helps having our own on line person to explain our queries

Have to agree with Plum, the referee was poor. The simple fact was that we were penalised for things that for Batley, went un punished.

What sort of offences?

Where know the park

What tackle count?