Good morning to you too sir.

Was that when Jones-Buchanan was not stood square facing North - South when playing the ball? St Helens weren't guilty of the same offence or was there another Leeds indiscretion that I missed?



Care to name any? I can't remember seeing any thus far and there's a good reason for that. Breaks are hard enough to come by these days so what are the chances of one occurring at the precise rare moment that an attacking player is still stood in the defensive line, where that player immediately joins the attacking move and involves himself in a try? That's a lot of ducks needed to line up for that to occur. We probably won't see another one all season.

As somebody else pointed out doesn't it happen every single time that a full back makes a break from a kick down field?

While you're asking for examples - how about the reverse (given that controversial refereeing decisions are more likely to stick in the memory than support play). I for one can't remember ever seeing this rule enforced in my 20ish years of watching league...and yet many of the greatest support players in the game (Edwards, Hanley, Joint) have done exactly what Webb did for there whole careers.

he's right about hanley though perp!! he stood in that postition every game he played in and it worked for him too. i remember as a kid been coached that. a great trick in the support play book.

its as old as the hills

feeding is still a penalty but the ball goes in the second row every time without fail. are they gonna give a penalty for that next week?????

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Were any of the full backs colleagues stood on the wrong side at the preceding play the ball?



I'm asking for examples because people have suggested this is a common occurrence. Without those examples do they have a case for complaint when last night saw the correct decision awarded by the match officials?

I can think of an example Hull KR Saints, Wellens in a similar situation to Webb, result no try, if sky sports still has that refs blog thing from last few years you will find it there

Irrelevant. A rule is a rule. Get over the last 20 years and start watching this years games

It may be that Leeds have been running offensive plays whereby one of their players stays in the defensive line.
Such a scenario can help disrupt a teams defensive pattern, and creat gaps to exploit.

The full time refs will have no doubt picked up on this in post match analysis and been looking out for such incidents.

Hanley was indeed a master of standing offside, and many fans used to complain about it at the time. Hence why we all remember that he used to do this.

The decision was correct according to the letter of the law.
The unfortunate thing from our point of view was that Burrow had two other players to whom he could have passed - Senior or McGuire - though Webb was in the best position.
Let's hope we don't get caught out by this in the future.
Roll on Monday & the opportunity to put this game behind us.