Quote: Ian.FCF "I'm with you Alfie.....Kosh and Welsy ought to work for the RFL as all they are doing is making a simple game complicated.......A forward pass is a forward pass no matter how you try and dress t up differently'"
Remember that Leroy Cudjoe wonder pass against St Helens last year? The "out the back door" pass to Michael Lawrence? It went forward in relation to the pitch. Is that a forward pass then? Because he couldn't have passed it any further backwards.
Quote: Ian.FCF " and an obstruction is an obstruction (run behind the player with ball in Hand) crossing as I've always known it as......what disturbs me about the game now is why the laws of the game although they haven't changed, when an incident arises instead of calling it as it is, more time is spent explaining a reason as to why the decision wasn't given!'"
Running behind a player with ball in hand isn't obstruction on it's own. Running behind a player with ball in hand is only obstruction if a defender has made an attempt to get to the player with ball in hand. Otherwise who is being obstructed? It's not difficult. Someone HAS to make an effort to get to the player. Not try and tackle a dummy runner. Not stand still. They HAVE to be obstructed from trying to defend.
Quote: Ian.FCF "Example....Warringtons try last Monday...Hodgeson passed the ball 2 yds before the 10 yard line and it was caught 2 yds after the line???????'"
But how fast was he running? And how fast was the wind blowing?
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Sometimes I despair at how this game I love, is slowly being ruined!!'"