But that's what sport is about , 6 inches one way , it's a good kick , 6 inches the other way , it's a bad one

It's a garbage rule

It's definatley a strange one , I know that by the number of people I've had to explain it to

But it is a rule , they benifited from it , we didn't , as I said he took a massive gamble , and won

Risk ? I reckon he just needed to touch it and it was a penalty. If he'd knocked it on, it'd still be a penalty.

Not if his foot had moved off the line

<sarcasm mode>Maybe make the rule even more stupid by letting players lift another player to catch the ball, while 5 other players stretching out holding hands with last player having his foot over the touch line. Absolutely amazing skill and awareness it would be too - and give a penalty Try and penalty as punishment, with kicker being sent off. </sarcasm mode>

Still think its a silly rule

I agree this is daft but the stupidest rule has to be the franchise system and pulling up the drawbridge.

Didn't they outlaw the rule about throwing the ball over the dead ball line when a player had one foot out of play to get a 20m tap??

To me this is a pretty similar rule.

How did this foot over the line thing work AGAINST us and Neil Turley against Wigan in that tight cup match a few years ago?
Wasn't that a kick off incident?
It proved to be a game breaking decision.

I think it is stupid rule to penalise a very accurate kick like that. It should be in favour of the defending side if the player with the ball goes into touch. Also it is stopping the game and not letting it flow. The team recieving the ball already have an advantage from the restart so why give them an extra one. After a try or a penalty and the restart is from the middle it should be all sqaure and start again otherwise the restart is not fair.

One of the strangest things i have seen this season was on a Sky game. It was involving Wigan and i think it was George Carmont. Carmont gets tackled and its one of those where the defender falls off him as he hits the ground, he stands up and the Ref, think it was Silverwood, waves play on and Wigan end up scoring. The ref goes to the screen and asks the Video ref to check to make sure the tackle wasnt complete. Luckily it turned out it wasnt but it would have been interesting how they would have restarted the game because Carmont stood up and on the replay the ref could clearly be seen waving play on so what is he meant to do and how would the game have been restarted if he was tackled?

Play the ball from the spot where he was deemed to have been tackled.

If he had been deemed to have been tackled and then got up and moved off the spot instead of playing the ball surley that is a penalty to the defending side?