Whether they can hear or take note in the heat of the moment is another thing though. Wigan had a try against someone at the DW last year and the touch judge had shouted off side but Bentham had given the try before saying "did someone shout off side".....but it was too late as he'd given it.

Might have been a forward rather than off side but its the same point. You can hear the ref communications on the Wigan TV Coverage. Useful sometimes. Although I think they should have commentary on instead.

Thats true, the amount of fans round us who regularly shout get em onside as soon as the 1st PTB is amazing. Sure they haven't taken note of where everyone is it's just a standard shout for them

I did ask the question @RLferees #askthe ref and the answer was No we cannot check for offside on the 10 metres, it's an onfield decision.

Fair does, you live and you learn!

I noticed too that they gave that response on twitter. But a SL referee actually said that it is not written in the rules that they cannot go to the video ref for offside on an interception but they have an agreement between the referees that they will not do this as they would end up checking every interception and disrupting the flow of the game.

But, there are less tries scored from interceptions than from kicks and the referees generally check for offside from the kick. They don't check with the video ref from a kick in open play, only for tries, so they could /should do the same for a try scored from an interception.