Obstruction

[Guest]

The new rules on obstruction are going to piss many people off. It seems all a defending player has to do to make it a no try is purposely run into one of the decoy players. Yesterday it happened with carney running into a south's player who was no where near the ball, I see milking going on at a level that would make soccer players proud.

[Juggler]

The Souths players (on both occasions) deliberately affected the defender. Isaac Luke did not have to touch Tupou. It is up to the decoy runner not to change their line to take out a defender. It may not have been enough to stop the tries but they did interfere. Hence the penalties.

This is far better than what we had before. there was more milking going on in previous years. Can you come up with a better/more concrete solution?

[Roosterfarian]

It's actually a great tactic and I was going to post it up as a suggestion against souths to combat that play which involves cutting out the 2nd or 3rd man. All teams are now copying the dogs and melbourne with this play. All you need to do is run into one of the attackers andno try.

Game on moles...

[Guest]

This is why we have two video referees to determine whether the attacking player or the defending player has initiated the contact. The referees have done a fantastic job these first two rounds. Hats off to Daniel Anderson.

[Guest]

This is why we have two video referees to determine whether the attacking player or the defending player has initiated the contact. The referees have done a fantastic job these first two rounds. Hats off to Daniel Anderson.

I think they have gone to far in one direction, they need to strike a balance between this year & last year. Wait till it starts happening to us.

[Juggler]

I think they have gone to far in one direction, they need to strike a balance between this year & last year. Wait till it starts happening to us.

According to you what's different from previous years?

[Guest]

According to you what's different from previous years?

Last year it did not seem to matter that much if a player was 25 meters away from the ball, this year a defender running into a opposition players half a km away is penalized.

[Guest]

It's actually a great tactic and I was going to post it up as a suggestion against souths to combat that play which involves cutting out the 2nd or 3rd man. All teams are now copying the dogs and melbourne with this play. All you need to do is run into one of the attackers andno try.

Game on moles...

This great tactic will work more against us then for us. We are the Roosters not the Dogs or the Storm

[Juggler]

Last year it did not seem to matter that much if a player was 25 meters away from the ball, this year a defender running into a opposition players half a km away is penalized.

That's rubbish. If they are close enough to affect play/possibly stop a try, they are penalised. In both cases the Cronulla defenders were hampered in some way. One Souffs decoy runner actually changed direction to impede a defender that may have had a chance to tackle the ball carrier. The other was Luke at the PTB who tried to delay Tupou at marker. Reynolds ran straight past where the marker was trying to go. They were clear cut and not as doubtful as you suggest.

[Juggler]

The try taken away from Melbourne tonight though was a 50-50. Yes he was in no position to tackle the try scorer... BUT the new rule states that the decoy runner must not make contact (I presume that means initiate contact) - and he did run a line straight at the defender who is entitled to hold his ground. If the defender had moved into the decoy's line of run it is play on.

[milanja]

What a disaster of a rule, just saw a storm try denied, with these kind of rules, nrl should be embarrassed. absolute joke.

[Guest]

What a disaster of a rule, just saw a storm try denied, with these kind of rules, nrl should be embarrassed. absolute joke.

The video ref will get a clip from Anderson.

Anderson wants common sense to be used in the interpretation. Usain Bolt couldn't have covered that distance.

[Guest]

What a disaster of a rule, just saw a storm try denied, with these kind of rules, nrl should be embarrassed. absolute joke.

That was a shit house call wasn't it. He's three defenders away from the attacker who is running away from him and they call obstruction. I thought they were having an ex-first grader in the box with them. There is no way an ex-first grader would call that obstruction.

[Rooster_Luke]

That's up there with the worst calls I've seen! There's absolutely no common sense used at all!!!

The upsetting part is that I had a bad feeling that they were gonna rule 'no try'. There's still no confidence in the video refs coming up with the right decision

[Guest]

That's rubbish. If they are close enough to affect play/possibly stop a try, they are penalised. In both cases the Cronulla defenders were hampered in some way. One Souffs decoy runner actually changed direction to impede a defender that may have had a chance to tackle the ball carrier. The other was Luke at the PTB who tried to delay Tupou at marker. Reynolds ran straight past where the marker was trying to go. They were clear cut and not as doubtful as you suggest.

Argue for the f*** of it, lets see how the it plays out as the weeks go by. I am 100% positive this will flare up more & more