Detest it. The dummy half could easily turn around and pass/run the other way.

Goes against the spirit of the game and anyone doing should be told to "play on"!


Also players stopping and looking or shouting at the ref wanting a penalty or holding ten fingers up to say "send him to the bin ref", and diving/feigning injury, oh and arguing with/swearing at the officials.

Come on lads, you aren't Wendyballers but your pathetic gamesmanship is making you look like those pathetic excuse for sportsmen from that sport.

I actually dislike the blockers obstructing than the chasers pushing the blockers in the back.

I think a rule should come in that states these blockers are obstructing the chasers if they are just stood there with no intention of playing the ball.

I'm sorry, but having just watched the replay again, it was a penalty all day long. He was obstructing the mark, not just in the ruck. He made no effort to move. Houghton literally couldn't pass to the left without going around him (which he shouldn't have to) and couldn't scoot.

Had he laid down and rolled at, he wouldn't have obstructed. You can't just kneel upright on the mark and expect not to get penalised.

Wellsy - I was making a general point rather than specific to the Trinity game. For what it's worth I've watched the highlights since I posted and I too think that in both incidents the penalties were the right call.

Wow! That one was taking the pi$$

That was a disgrace. Should of been a scrum Hudds. He clearly passed it forward to milk that one.

Yes, surely.

Proper grubby tactic, is there a rule to give a player ten minutes in the bin, for blatant cheating?

Though if there was, on this occasion the incompetent ref missed it.

could always be sin binned for unsportsmanlike conduct

Just showing initiative?



Seriously though, when does the NRL start?

SL is unwatchable.

This!

Once one of em gets binned, they'll all stop doing it.

Indeed, surely the R.F.L. or the ref's could send out a warning to clubs that this kind of unsportsmanlike behavior will be punished with a sin-binning.

I doesn't take an idiot to see when it's done deliberately, on saying that, by that analogy I'm inferring that Master James is an idiot.