Out of interest I take it you screamed for Hodgsons 2nd try not to be given yesterday?

Fucking hell, you are stupid or a bad troll.

I don't think I should tell you he was over the line, while sam wasn't.

No matter what your opinion on ratboys 'try' you can't, without being laughed at, scratch off Brett's

I think this all comes down to how the referees all have different ways of interpreting the rules? Yet another reason that Cummins doesn't know what hes doing, IMO if all the referees used the same set of rules, there would be much less of this debate.

to answer the question.

Q.When isw a tackle complete?
A. (by vadge) when you hear the ligaments snap!

*lacks class as well*

an idiot is a measurement of IQ, nothing to do with childishness, your posts alone allow me to jump to that conclusion!

I never mentioned scratching it off he was a try all day!
But his ball carrying arm hit the floor whilst in the field of play with a tackler on him. He then made a movement to put the ball downonce over the line. Some on here have said that doing that is no try!
Both Sams and Hodgsons for me were tries!

I guess the question is, since the ball carrying arm had hit the floor, was it purely momentum which took the ball over the line? Technically it could be argued there was a second movement after the ball carrying arm hit the floor in addition to his momentum and his momentum alone would not have carried the ball over the line. Either way, it was awarded and it took some scoring.

Looked like a try to me.

Can I be so bold as to ask your reasoning?. Presumably it's either that the ball carrying arm didn't hit the floor or he didn't make an intentional movement after the ball carrying arm had hit the floor?

I think it's hard to argue that it was momentum that resulted in the ball crossing the line since he obviously intentionally reached his arm out to place the ball over the line.

It was a great peice of skill to twist in the tackle to get him self in a position to put the ball over the line but in my opinion the ball carrying arm hit the floor and he therefore is not allowed to intentionally move his arm to promote the ball subsequent to that.

I've not seen it since last Friday but if memory serves I didn't think that the ball carrying arm hit the floor or that, if it did, the tackle wasn't complete.

It's like Cherry Pie never posted this



Have a look at the rules here:[urlhttp://library.thinkquest.org/3369/rugby/rule.htm[/url and read section 11.5.

Until the tackle was complete - i.e. [uhis sliding had stopped[/u and opposition players were holding him - he was within his rights to put the ball over the line.