Sorry SF, his feet are on the line when he catches it, I watched the tries show last night. Very hard call for the LMan though as Meli was probably obscuring the veiw of the ball.

However, I'm interested to see the results of the rule check, as I think the fact it bounced makes a difference.

I was chatting with a lad I plyed union with and we reckon if it were in that game, it would have been the correct desicion - FWIW.

Perhaps you should have checked before calling it the worst decision of the match when, in reality you don't have a clue if it was or not.

Accepted, but at the time of viewing I was unaware of any rule change, so presumed that as Whiting had caught the ball with his feet on the line he was out of play.

Do you know if the decision was correct and why?

I'm still waiting for a referees confirmation of the ruling, but I may have a better chance of getting a tax rebate.

I think the decision was correct as the rule being referred to was abolished several years ago. But as I wasn't 100% certain I refrained from making rash statements and commenting on it.

It's called trolling and he's good at it.

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They are all wrong. He jumped into Ashe because he got his jump wrong, that's a penalty every time it happens near the try line and very, very rarely does Clarke decry the penalty being given.

I thought Clarke showed a lot of anti Saints bias on the commentary, but that's become a norm since your flirt with relegation a few years back, when his balanced commentary went out of the window and he started calling Wigan 'we' again.

Hope this clarifies it all touches the touch line or the ground beyond the touch line or any object on or outside the touch line except when a player, tackled in the field of play, steps into touch as he regains his feet in which case he shall play the ball in the field of play[/i."

Didn't matter that Whitings foot was on the line before or after he caught it. Correct decision by the TJ - scrum to Saints.

Love the irony of this thread. The only unacceptable bias on Monday was that shown towards St Helens by a certain Mr 'St Helens' Ganson!

Phil Clarke can be a bit of a w%nker at times, but i think they all do a great job.
its good they dont agree on things and argue, and have a laugh.

must say clarkey stands out as the worse for bias, and he does tend to get on my tits sometimes,
i much prefer carney, and wells does a great job too.
clarkey seems to overemphasize some things going way over the top.
all in all though he doesnt offend me enough that I would want him sacked.

eddie and stevo are always getting slagged off, but who would you have replace them?
They both love the sport, talk passionately about it and I for one would miss either 1 of them if they retired.

Isn't that against the AUP? AGAIN.

Yes, yes, yes we know what you mean. Every single win we've ever had has been crooked. We haven't deserved any of our numerous trophies over the past fifteen years and have only won because of refs and us breaking the rules. How we ever live with ourselves knowing that I don't know but we do. It's the kind of thing we just have to do to win a match. Without favourable breaks or biased refereeing we'd be sitting at the bottom of the Cooperative Championship, if we were lucky.

I admire honesty in a person. Thanks for your admission and confession. For your penance you will now have to admit your great love of Shaun Edwards.

Hopefully I'll get the answer on the Whiting issue tonight.

No, I've just had it confirmed by a professional referee. It should have been head and feed to Hull. The straddle rule only applies to to a rolling/bouncing ball when the player straddles the dead ball line. It does not apply to the touchline.

Therefore it was a wrong decision, and one that "probably" cost Hull the game as Roby scored direct from the scrum and got Saints back into the game.

Swings and roundabouts eh? Wigan's american football impressions on Good Friday "probably" cost us the game as well.