Quote: Nephilim "Peacock clearly moves diagonally forward after he plays the ball. Not only does this then create a space for McShane to dive straight forward into the space Peacock has just created but Peacock moves towards and obstructs a Widnes defender.'"
Peacock plays the ball and does move very slightly right and maybe an inch or two forward ... just as we see week-in and week-out as a player straightens-up from the PTB.
McShane collects from the PTB and dummies left, two defenders buy that dummy and move that way but McShane goes straight through the gap that they left, to the left of Peacock.
A Widnes defender to the right of Peacock then bumps into and tackles Peacock at the same moment as McShane is already crossing the tryline and they fall over the now-prostrate McShane's hips.
That defender to Peacock's right only moves towards Peacock after McShane's dummy and during McShane's dive for the line. The two strides distance that the defender would have had to make meant that he could not have stopped the already-horizontal McShane anyway.
Not only that but when Bentham puts the square in the air, he only asks for the grounding to be checked and, if I'm right on that, it means that Ganson has exceeded his remit and made a judgement he was not asked to make and then compounded it by getting it wrong.
