Question for Ecky?

[jono]

that just seems like a sure fire way to piss off the ref. which wont ever work in your favour come the 50/50 calls

[James]

I just think it is a waste of effort to bring up the Habana try. He dove too soon and lost control of the ball before he'd cross the line by a few centimetres. I think there is a time to be pedantic and this is not it. He deserved the try.

Never heard that before???

Advantage is advantage, the referee is sole judge of whether or not a team has gained an advantage. The referee has wide discretion when making decisions.

Advantage can be either territorial or tactical.

Territorial advantage means a gain in ground.

Tactical advantage means freedom for the non-offending team to play the ball as they wish.

I could have phrased what I said a bit better, but we are basically saying the same thing. You've posted what is refereed and I've posted how it is refereed.

[welshrugbyfan]

I could have phrased what I said a bit better, but we are basically saying the same thing. You've posted what is refereed and I've posted how it is refereed.

There's nothing in the rule book that says about advantage after a knock on or a penalty. The referee is the sole judge of whether or not a team has gained an advantage regardless of when it's occurred.

This does not include times of course when the advantage law is not applied.

[Burgs]

So a player gets an intercept, pulls up under the post 20m clear of the next person and tries some wanky move before grounding and drops the ball. Try?

[brokendown gunfighter]

according to the three blind mice,yes

[James]

There's nothing in the rule book that says about advantage after a knock on or a penalty. The referee is the sole judge of whether or not a team has gained an advantage regardless of when it's occurred.

This does not include times of course when the advantage law is not applied.

I said it could have been phrased better. What I posted isn't the rule, even though I said it was, but it is the rule of thumb- how referees tend to apply the law in a game.

So a player gets an intercept, pulls up under the post 20m clear of the next person and tries some wanky move before grounding and drops the ball. Try?

How marginal is the dropping of the ball? Is it dropped from one metre or dropped 10cm from the ground? People will say it doesn't or shouldn't make a difference but it does.

I think tries scored with wanky moves should automatically be disallowed anyway. Wanky post try celebrations too. Danny Cipriani's dance against us a couple of weeks back was sickening.

[jono]

digby would never get a try again...

[GIGS20]

You say that like it's a bad thing
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[jono]

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