What actually happened? What is the actual rule? Ive trawled through the RFL website and i cant find it anywhere.

Whenever i have seen it happen before it has always been a case of whoever wins the toss decides whether to recieve the ball or not and the other team then decides which way they will play. Is this not the case now? Gareth Hewer can be hear to say that he dosnt know what the confusion is all about and also mentions that MC isnt happy about it. Anyone shed any light on the matter.

It should probably be on the RFL website for everyone to see, maybe they should add some tips for Fev as well about how to do well in GP situations.

What's written in the Aus rulebook? Surely with it happening almost weekly they'll have a way of doing it which I presume is international.

This is what I have foundThe kick off is a place kick from the centre of the halfway line. The team which loses the toss for choice of ends kicks off to start the first half of the game and their opponents kick off to start the second half.

[iTaken from the Laws of the Game on the RFL website under section 8, kick-off and drop out.[/i

So, as far as I can see it from that above Featherstone won the toss and opted to play downhill meaning Fax had to kick off uphill. Which is what happened.

That doesn't make sense though because Fev won both the final and semi toss and CHOSE to recieve the ball. According to that they were always going to get it anyway so should have just chosen ends. All a means to the same end but you can see the confusion.

Actually forget that. We got the ball in the final haha. Doh!

Edit: Actually no (clearly just talking to myself now ) There was that debate amoung fans after Fev chose to kick it to us which some Fev fans didn't agree with, therefore that doesn't fit in with the above rule either. I'll leave it there for now I think.

who cares? we won, and will be building sandcastles on the beach surrounded by donkeys, in red and white! ha

joking, gonna be a right day! i cani wait pet!

GFB does. He asked the question.

TS. i have also found this in the RFL laws of the game under section 5 - start of play

The captains of the two teams shall toss the coin in the presence of the referee. The captain winning the toss shall decide to either kick off or choose which end his team shall defend. The losing captain shall take the other of the alternatives.

So going by this Fev won the toss and elected to play down hill therefore fax had the opportunity to kick or received if i have got this right

You have got it right. Nice one for finding this. I went for the obvious title of 'kick-off', not expecting it to be elsewhere. It then shows a conflict in the Laws of the Game pertaining to this matter. Hewer was correct in respect of the Law I found, and wrong with respect to the one you found.

Strange one because Fev won the toss in the Grand Final therefore they should have recieved the ball.

the usual RFL messy rule book.
any of those found deleted yet as per normal case when posted on here.

The referee was correct in thursday's instance, I have it on very good authority. Unfortunately, NEITHER club had been informed of the rule change as I understand it.

I thought that the decision we made was correct, with the outcome we played for.

So what is the new ruling? The team that wins the toss automatically recieves the ball but gets to pick which end to attack?