Jake the Peg wrote:
The better metreage in the nrl is probably down to the better refereeing keeping the sides apart properly and stopping the messing about at the ptb
Probably explains why our forwards are not making the meters we'd have expected.
Even saints are complaining (to the rfl)….
There was also significant frustration over how the offside rule was enforced. Saints feel their opponents were repeatedly allowed to encroach the ten-metres and flout the marker rules without being penalised, hampering Holbrook’s team’s attempts to play fast and on the front foot.
