It's getting ridiculous, and it's nothing but cheating!
yes, sometimes defenders do hang around in the ruck too long, but that's upto referee's to penalise them, but with the one last night, Brough had just completed the tackle and was in no way trying to interfere with the PTB, although he could have been penalised for a high/grapple tackle before that.

It's the same with moving off the mark, diving etc if it starts getting penalised and discouraged by coaches it will stop, i think this throwing the ball at people is a disgrace to the game and it should be the priority this week to get it banished from the game before even more fans give the game up.

Amended for accuracy.

a Huddersfield fan taking the high ground about cheating. Remind me again how your club avoided relegation 10 years ago?

Regards

King James

I didn't realise we had avoided relegation 10 years ago, care to enlighten me?

And as it's a public forum then i, as a Huddersfield fan have every right to have an opinion on anything, get your head out of your

Last night Leigh v Leeds showed the right way to penalized at the ruck , What we saw on Thurs was nothing but Cheating/Manipulating the rules after that incident i wanted Hudds to stick it up em, Normally i like Salford & they fans but that stop for this game but this sort of actions has to be stop immediately by the Muppets at the RFL.

Exactly.

Now had Jones ran into him and "tripped over" then at least there's an argument to be made that the defender was offside. But to throw the ball forward at him is a disgrace. The ref should have known better than to give that. There is no situation where that would have been legal.

Correct , the moment the ball left his hand forward before it hit the player it was a pass , so scrum to opposition

If as happened last week when Hood threw the ball back into the line and hit the Cas player , then that was a legitimate offside

That would be the year we finished bottom again and expected to be relegated, only for the RFL to deny Hunslet, who had won the NFP Grand Final, entry into Super League the following year based on their ground not meeting criteria/standards required ?

Or is that not the answer you wanted ?

It's so easy to fix - I can't see any controversy. If the defender is interfering with play in a meaningful way - it's a penalty to the attacking team. If the attacker commits what would ordinarily be an offence in trying to prove that the defender is interfering - he has still committed an offence and that should be penalised in the way it normally would; in the Jones instance, a forward pass.

I guess it relies on the ref being able to differentiate one from the other, so if you want to be charitable, you could suggest that the players don't have confidence in the officials to do that consistently, so they try to force the issue; personally I don't believe that - I think it's just cynical cheating.

It seems the RFL are listening!

I expect defenders to just stand around doing their nails now

Is a deliberate forward pass not a penalty now? (Or has it ever been? )

The problem with the RFL statement is that the defenders tended not to be penalised for interference unless the ball hits them or an attacker runs into them which is why the dummy half started throwing the ball into the defender in the first place. This was generally in done in the interest of letting the game flow which is not necessarily a bad thing.

This relies on refs having the understanding of when the defender is affecting play which I'm not sure too many refs are able to do.