So if you have possession, lose it from the hand and don't regain it you cant score by simultaneously grounding the ball with your forearm like last night where as if you never lost the ball, from a kick for example, downward pressure with the forearm is sufficient?

I suppose in reality there was little control last night when McGuire 'scored' but then, if chasing a kick and grounding with a forearm, how much control do you really have?

Anyway glad thats cleared up :p

And therein probably lies the root of my question. I bet it wouldn't take long with access to the sky archives to find errors on this basis. The inconsistency therefore occurring away from Friday night.

(Before you ask, I cant think of any off hand ..... )

Item c) would apply IF I was correct about Lomax having dislodged the ball.

Yeah, that is how I interpreted it though if El Barbudo is right about Lomax then C) could, as he says, apply.

Of course it's individual judgement but I assume the VR had no duobts as, if he did, surely he would've given us the benefit of them!

Lomax is definitely trying to prevent the ball being grounded but I think he loses contact with the ball before McGuire reaches for the line. Irrespective of the rules I would expect any defender to do what Lomax did & it should be incumbent on the attacker to retain control. I'll invent a new rule & allow ball stealing within 5m of the line. I think the game is far better technically now than when I started watching & playing over 30 years ago but do not remember so much lost ball when stealing in the tackle was allowed.

Back to the opening topic

Did Ablett say something to Briers?, a wire fan on the wigan board is assuming some not so nice things were said.

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