Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:24 pm  

one thing i would like to see is that 'the grounding' (i.e whether the player had control or not, not whether it was in out of play or whether it was held up) should be decided at normal speed, slowing it down and down and down only seems to create more doubt rather than help anyone. The saints one a couple of weeks back was an absolutely appalling decision that was 100% a try in full speed, and 99.9% in super slow-mo.

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:31 pm  

The HKR man was in front of the man when he passed the ball and the ball was passed forward from one player to the other.
If he had been level with the passer and caught the ball it would not have been judged as forward although as we all know very well the ball would have travelled forward. We all know about the physics of the debate it's been going on for decades.
What is indisputable is that if a ball is passed in a forward direction it will be judged as that. The HKR/Wigan incident was one such case. The line markings just emphasised it.
There is a very good case for having a VR at each SL game from 2016 or before, the clubs cannot now claim they haven't the money as they did in the past!

Re: Super League Backchat : Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:36 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

one thing i would like to see is that 'the grounding' (i.e whether the player had control or not, not whether it was in out of play or whether it was held up) should be decided at normal speed, slowing it down and down and down only seems to create more doubt rather than help anyone. The saints one a couple of weeks back was an absolutely appalling decision that was 100% a try in full speed, and 99.9% in super slow-mo.

Unlike the one given last night which was never a try in a month of Sundays.

[Bulliac]

Re: Super League Backchat : Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:04 am  

Well, you [and I] might think so, but as they used to say in days gone by," take a look in the morning paper"..