We'll have to agree to disagree, then.

I just checked the laws on the rfl website and there are no examples of obstruction given that match the situation from tonight - the only example in the laws that could have applied is one in relation to a player who has passed the ball to a team mate, who then should "give way" to defenders in front of him, but is under no obligation to give way to players coming from behind.

As it is, Riley never had the ball - so the situation tonight isn't covered in the law book by example, so therefore there's no precedent to say that it was an obstruction to the laws of the game, it was simply a player running in support of the ball carrier, and the defender ran towards the supporting player instead of the ball carrier.

Coming from a Bradford fan, no way was it an obstruction.

Riley had the right to be in support for Atkins. He didn't change direction or run into the defender.

Your and Wolf fans thoughts changed on the Gleeson supporting Roberts try at the HJ a couple of years back?
IIRC the board was in meltdown when a supporting Gleeson who was on the shoulder of Roberts "Obstructed" Matt King who was coming from a similar angle to the Bradford chaser last night to tackle Roberts.

Both were tries, but I think giving it the Brain dead Goon stuff is a bit much given some of the Wolf fans you have!

does it matter now we can not change what happened its in the record books now end of lets get on with the sport we love

Obstruction is about an attacking player reaching the defensive line before the ball carrier. IMO once the line has been broken the defending team can't expect to benefit from attacking players getting in their way if they are behind the ball carrier.

NFL style blocking is about preventing the defence from reaching the ball carrier rather than supporting the ball carrier, which is what Riley was doing and is a fundamental part of either code of rugby.

Not very good at this rugby league lark are you?

Has anyone spotted the re-occurring theme yet?

Specsavers not doing a great deal of business over Wigan way?

I've been biting me tongue on the red card thread, with nhow concerned and outraged enicomb is, especially since he's done nothing but run wire fans into the ground over the last 3 years. Hence his attack on the millions and millions of wire fans defending bridge. When really last night I saw about3 of them reply on that thread.

Anything to get a dig in

A similar thing happened with Hall against Castleford with the Griffen break away try. Hall has to run round a Castleford player to begin chasing Griffen, although he is pretty far from him at that stage anyway. As for last nights, definite try, Riley can slow down if he want, he hasn't moved from his original line and it just happened a Bradford players line was moving into Riley's, not his fault.

The Bradford player was knackered and just pushed at Riley to see if he could get a decision. If he was trying to milk a penalty he should at least clattered Riley