When a player had been tackled, if isolated and there is no one at acting half, the tackled player can get up, tap it, and continue?

You used to be able to do that. Can't remember when they changed the rule. 1990s maybe?

The player can play the ball forwards if there is no marker, they also can (I think) play it backwards then turn round and pick it up but I'm not 100% on that one.

used to do it all the time before.

Can't play it forwards

Used to do it as a kid, just had doubt in my mind if you could do it professionally.
Makes you wonder why they did away with it considering they like to make this game faster with every rule change.

Went out with super league coming in, like raking at the play the ball, I'd like to see that come back personally, not gonna happen though

The rule changed to say the ball had to be played backwards

If there is no one there you should play it backwards and turn around and pick it up.

You are allowed to drop the ball to play it backward with your foot, you do not have to place the ball on the floor with your hand directly. The refs are so dumb though and don't bother enforcing half the rules they probably don't even know the rule and would call it a knock on no matter what it states in the laws of the game.

You are allowed to drop the ball to play it backward with your foot, you do not have to place the ball on the floor with your hand directly. The refs are so dumb though and don't bother enforcing half the rules they probably don't even know the rule and would call it a knock on no matter what it states in the laws of the game.

some players almost made a career out of it near the try line - paul rose springs to mind

It maybe the rule but isn't that a lost ball and as such a knock on

Differential penalty in NRL for not playing ball with foot now. No kick for touch either Isn't that a handover?

Aye, Billy Whizz used to do it a fair bit, got a couple of my Grandad's rugby videos from the early nineties and it was going on then.

I saw a tackle in about 1990 (at the time of the old rule) where the player in possession got spun round one-and-a-half times. That meant he stood up facing his own goal, but he didn't realise and so thought there was no marker. He played the ball to himself and started running in the wrong direction. Referee gave a penalty against.

John Pendlebury was a master at it.