Re: George Williams : Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:47 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

The metres the props make in Oz seem incredible in comparison to ours, yet when you watch the games they seem to be making the same amount of ground as the guys in Superleague do. I’m sure there’s some favourable counting going on down under.

Apparently in the NRL they count metres from when the player receives the ball. Over here they do it from when they go over the advantage line.

Re: George Williams : Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:00 am  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

Apparently in the NRL they count metres from when the player receives the ball. Over here they do it from when they go over the advantage line.

I believe so. Hardaker was talking about it a week or so ago, saying that some of the metres quoted in Aus seemed artificially high.

Re: George Williams : Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:51 am  

Ryan Sutton played a lot of last season in the second row and even filled in at loose forward on occasions

Re: George Williams : Mon Jun 15, 2020 4:48 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

Apparently in the NRL they count metres from when the player receives the ball. Over here they do it from when they go over the advantage line.

Makes more sense the NRL way of counting to be fair

Re: George Williams : Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:50 pm  

Many have more pressing problems to worry about at the moment than how meters are calculated!

Re: George Williams : Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:01 pm  

100% Warrior wrote:

Makes more sense the NRL way of counting to be fair

Not really. The NRL way does not make sense. How can it be metres gained when the ball is passed backwards from where the PTB is? Metres are only gained once the player gets past the point of the last PTB, anything less is a loss of metres.

Re: George Williams : Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:01 am  

The_Enforcer wrote:

Not really. The NRL way does not make sense. How can it be metres gained when the ball is passed backwards from where the PTB is? Metres are only gained once the player gets past the point of the last PTB, anything less is a loss of metres.

what if there is a chargedown and the ball goes back 20 meters and someone picks it up beats 3 men and makes 19 meters? your saying he should be put down as a minus 1?

Re: George Williams : Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 am  

Pieman wrote:

what if there is a chargedown and the ball goes back 20 meters and someone picks it up beats 3 men and makes 19 meters? your saying he should be put down as a minus 1?

No because the play was forced backwards 20 metres by the opposition so from the moment the ball is picked up, any metres run forward are metres gained and its a new set of six tackles so the position of the last PTB is irrelevant.

Re: George Williams : Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:16 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Many have more pressing problems to worry about at the moment than how meters are calculated!

Wish I'd never mentioned it

Re: George Williams : Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:06 pm  

The_Enforcer wrote:

No because the play was forced backwards 20 metres by the opposition so from the moment the ball is picked up, any metres run forward are metres gained and its a new set of six tackles so the position of the last PTB is irrelevant.

but you said - Metres are only gained once the player gets past the point of the last PTB, anything less is a loss of metres.