The difficult one is when a player is facing his own line, it's assumed that any ball dropped must be backwards, not the case, the ball can come through the hands and end up travelling fwd to the direction of play.
If the ball comes out as much as officials do not guess sometimes it's a judgement call, if the ball has come out then you have to make a decision one way or the other

Makes it hard to make the call sometimes, if ball comes out and it's not obviously backwards if it then bobbles forward chances are it's likely to go against the person dropping the ball.
Not forgetting any dropped ball after the tackle is complete irrelevant of direction of ball travel is a knock on.

Thank goodness looks like we have started well up in batley

Still find that astonishing, but accept the experts.

On a different point, who is the commentator on the radio, w
He is a joke.

Appalling penalty count, but we are winning comfortably!

Pretty good 1st half scoreline.

And we're attacking down hill 2nd half so should be easier.... In theory

Mickyb1234 On Friday Toulouse number 6 received a head injury and was treated on the pitch for a number of minutes. He was bleeding and they strapped his head, he was then allowed to play on. Now can I have your judgement as a referee. As blood was on his shirt and he received a head injury am I right in thinking a. he should have changed the shirt and b. he should have received a 10 minutes assessment off the pitch, appreciate if you could clarify for me.

Well done another win

Great win, this weekend has got us back on track, boost to points difference, no injuries by the sound of it. Get Battye, Ackerman back and we can push on!

Who's Ackerman?

Another great win, looks like we're getting back on track!
COYB!

Askers, stupid IPad on train and spellcheck or stupid user one of the two or both..........

Sounds like a good solid win. Anyone there got any feedback

Re the head injury. Not every head injury has to have a 15 min concussion assessment. In the pro game they have to have a qualified doctor. It is the doctor who makes the call on the pitch if he feels a concussion assessment is required. The referee can call the doctor onto the pitch if a player shows any signs. A cut does not necessarily mean the player will need the 15 min off field.
I believe excess blood on a shirt

Damn hit send early. Blood on a shirt I believe protocol is that the shirt should be changed.
If the doctor enters the field of play the referee has to stop play unlike other injuries where you can play on.
The 15 min is mandatory, if they are not cleared back by the doctor it becomes one of the 10. If they are cleared after 15 mins then they can come back on at that point, if they don't come back on it becomes 1 of the 10

Haha. Ackers !!!icon_smile.gif