It wouldn't be the Magic weekend unless a VR screwed the Bulls.

Great try by Kear wrongly disallowed.


Langley? Check, check.

Quote: was waiting "He shall not encroach within ten metres of an opponent
who is waiting for the ball'"

There was no opponent waiting for the ball. The ball was kicked into empty space, and players of both teams went for it, but no Huddersfield player even touched the ball. It can be 100% said that no Huddersfield player "was waiting".

Quote: was waiting "and shall immediately retire ten
metres from any opponent who first secures possession
of the ball.'"

IF a Huddersfield player HAD "first secured possession", and Langley had not "iimmediately retired ten", then a penalty, but no such thing happened, so Langley never became under an obligation to retire.

Quote: was waiting "Notes

Any off side player who remains within ten metres of an opponent
who is set to catch a kick up field by an opposing player shall
be deemed to be interfering with or attempting to interfere with
the catcher '"

This explanatory note to the laws does clarify, and is obviously designed to clarify, that the "encroachment" rule specifically only applies to an opponent WHO IS SET TO CATCH a kick. Not even Ken Davy would argue that any of his players was ever set to catch the kick.

[sizeNote to muppets

in fairness, FA does actually look like a chuckle brother.

Keith Harris and Orville ( don't know who's who though)

I don't have a problem with rules being updated TT, well not beyond a basic feeling that they are changed a tad too often . All I really ask, is that when they are updated, the updated version replaces the old one in the rulebook, either as a new rule or, at the very least, a note to the rule. As I said before, it's hardly the most onerous of tasks to to update an on-line file.

Well at least this thread has achieved something then, in dragging out such a rare nugget.

I can empathise as I went through a long period of depression, leading to withdrawal and a general dissatisfaction with life when all the, "I luv Wobbie", posts dried up, took me months to get over it....