2024 NRL Round 3: Teams and Game Day

[Botman]

Good back and forth game of footy this one. Both teams looking to use the footy and attack.

[LimeGreenMachine]

Manly lead at halftime
18-16

[LimeGreenMachine]

Thats a bad call. The Parra player was not even looking to make a tackle , so how can he be impeded

[Northern Raider]

Thats a bad call. The Parra player was not even looking to make a tackle , so how can he be impeded

Compounded by a very dubious penalty to follow up

[Northern Raider]

Eels got a bit of help with that win.

[yeh raiders]

Thats a bad call. The Parra player was not even looking to make a tackle , so how can he be impeded

The call was fine. Jurbo stopped in the line and prevented the defender from having any chance of getting there. It’s an obvious penalty, as per the rules of the game.

[BJ]

Thats a bad call. The Parra player was not even looking to make a tackle , so how can he be impeded

The call was fine. Jurbo stopped in the line and prevented the defender from having any chance of getting there. It’s an obvious penalty, as per the rules of the game.

I think we all know that the defender wouldn’t have stopped Turbo, but if they allow that play we will see decoy runners trying to discretely impede defenders instead of trying to avoid them. The onus has to be on the decoy to avoid the defender.

[Botman]

Yeah missing my SC points aside for Turbo, im OK with the call too
Jurbo simply has to run the extra 1-2 metres to get out of the way. The onus HAS to be on the attacker not to impede

It's ugly when you get an instance like that and you have to take a great try away to reward a defender who wasnt even trying, but that's the rule. It's simple - dont stop in the middle of the defensive line.

As an aside, i actually think Tommy T's final pass in that sequence was thrown backwards too. I saw some commentary that it was a forward pass so who cares anyways, but i thought it was thrown backwards

[reptar]

Yeah missing my SC points aside for Turbo, im OK with the call too
Jurbo simply has to run the extra 1-2 metres to get out of the way. The onus HAS to be on the attacker not to impede

It's ugly when you get an instance like that and you have to take a great try away to reward a defender who wasnt even trying, but that's the rule. It's simple - dont stop in the middle of the defensive line.

As an aside, i actually think Tommy T's final pass in that sequence was thrown backwards too. I saw some commentary that it was a forward pass so who cares anyways, but i thought it was thrown backwards

That was a great pass.

[yeh raiders]

Yep, that was a great ball from Tommy.

Pigs right, the onus simply needs to be on the defender.

I’m not having a go at anyone on here in particular, but there are certain people who think that we shouldn’t have obstruction calls made on the basis of black / white rules.

There are always calls for “interpretation” and people like Gould will whinge for hours saying “he wouldn’t have got there in time”.

While I respect Gould as a rugby league god, he is a horrible in-game commentator and does a great job in pissing viewers off.

Of course, there are times when I think the defence “wouldn’t have got there” - but who is to say the attacker would’ve maintained the same line, had the gap been smaller (without a defender being impeded)?

Who’s to say the other defenders aren’t making defensive decisions based on one of their teammates being somewhat impeded? In plenty of cases, I’m certain they are.

But I’m not interested in having the video refs guessing and making more of their own judgement calls on what’s going through a players mind.

I don’t want them guessing any more than they already do for penalty tries. Even that has gone a bit too far this season already.

Andrew Johns of all people, would know what eyes-up footy is all about. And how to sense opportunity based on defensive decisions and his peripheral vision.

It’s bizarre that he rarely, if ever, talks about that when a try is disallowed for obstruction.

In fairness, I’m rarely listening to his commentary these days. So I’m happy to be corrected if he has done a 180.

[LimeGreenMachine]

My issue is the impede part. Where was he impeded. He made no effort to be impeded. If anything he moved into Jurbo .
If that's what they want from the rule , fine but there should be another dozen penalties in game

[LimeGreenMachine]

Cleary has a hamstring strain and is out 2 to 4 weeks

[LimeGreenMachine]

Moses looking at 12 weeks , fracture in the foot