The Virtual Terrace • Try or No Try?
In the Fax game this last weekend, a try/no try scenario occurred that I'm sure has happened before, but I can't remember the outcome.
The play finished just in front of me, and tbh I probably had a better initial view of it than any of the officials had on the field. It was the last tackle, and the ball was grounded by the attacking player an inch or two short of the whitewash. There was no secondary motion, just a natural rolling forward of the ball onto the whitewash, but the decision was "no try".
My take on the rules are that it should have been either a try or a penalty (depending on whether the referee thought that the player had made a second movement)? The referee had moved round behind the play by the time it was on the whitewash, so he couldn't (?) have thought it was short of the line.
Anyone have an interpretation of the rules that might explain why it was just a changeover rather than a try or penalty?
The play finished just in front of me, and tbh I probably had a better initial view of it than any of the officials had on the field. It was the last tackle, and the ball was grounded by the attacking player an inch or two short of the whitewash. There was no secondary motion, just a natural rolling forward of the ball onto the whitewash, but the decision was "no try".
My take on the rules are that it should have been either a try or a penalty (depending on whether the referee thought that the player had made a second movement)? The referee had moved round behind the play by the time it was on the whitewash, so he couldn't (?) have thought it was short of the line.
Anyone have an interpretation of the rules that might explain why it was just a changeover rather than a try or penalty?
Statistics: Posted by HXSparky — Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:10 pm