Round 17

What about leading with your boot to stop the grounding of the ball ?

Your Name wrote:What about leading with your boot to stop the grounding of the ball ?

Not really relating to this but I have always wondered two things

1) Why don't players instead of trying to slide in at the player they slide on the ground where the guy is going to try and plant the ball, dive in onto your back and attempt to grab the ball when he grounds it on you.

2) why do players try to hit the ball dead instead of grounding it, safer and easier to do.

@Honeysett wrote:I read somewhere that it wouldn't be deemed a penalty either. Strange.

probably just a common sense interpretation



a guy throwing his body on the line to save a try resulting in a penalty try would be horrendous imo

@leaguegod wrote:


probably just a common sense interpretation



a guy throwing his body on the line to save a try resulting in a penalty try would be horrendous imo

But it's against the rules to do a shoulder charge...
If you did a head high it would be a penalty try, it should be the same for a shoulder charge.
If not, fuck off the shoulder charge rule all together.

Who are we kidding, when was the last time a penalty try was awarded does anyone know? Like sin binning the refs are scared to award a penalty try.

Bren wrote:Who are we kidding, when was the last time a penalty try was awarded does anyone know?

like 10-11 days ago ?

@Pieman wrote:

But it's against the rules to do a shoulder charge...
If you did a head high it would be a penalty try, it should be the same for a shoulder charge.
If not, fuck off the shoulder charge rule all together.

i'm not sure most high tackles would be either, only in a fairly unique situation where the guy is pretty much over the line and get knocked senseless by the head high or somthing, i don't think a high tackles 5 yards out would ever result in a penalty try these days.

re shoulder charge, maybe it should just completely be allowed in try scoring situations, i mean they allow tackling in the air in those situations despite the injury risk being exactly the same anywhere else on the field

@leaguegod wrote:

i'm not sure most high tackles would be either, only in a fairly unique situation where the guy is pretty much over the line and get knocked senseless by the head high or somthing, i don't think a high tackles 5 yards out would ever result in a penalty try these days.

re shoulder charge, maybe it should just completely be allowed in try scoring situations, i mean they allow tackling in the air in those situations despite the injury risk being exactly the same anywhere else on the field

Or maybe they should just allow it back into the game??

I mean it's fairly obvious it was brought into the rules as a risk mitigation measure for when ex-players get older and start suing the NRL......so how can the NRL let some go and not others?
It almost increases the NRL's risk because they are acknowledging it and accepting it in certain scenario's.

Either it is banned completely......or not at all (my preference and the logical solution).

@Honeysett wrote:

Not really relating to this but I have always wondered two things

1) Why don't players instead of trying to slide in at the player they slide on the ground where the guy is going to try and plant the ball, dive in onto your back and attempt to grab the ball when he grounds it on you.

2) why do players try to hit the ball dead instead of grounding it, safer and easier to do.

No.1 - It would have to do with body and position and momentum I guess. Teams get coaches from other sports to train specific skills, not sure which sport could teach you that.

No. 2 - Blows my mind this one. I take a lot of enjoyment out of giving it to a player who trys to bat it out fucks up and has a try scored against them. I blame the coaches. Players for the most part aren't the sharpest tool in the shed, but surely can be trained to ground a football.

Your Name wrote:

No.1 - It would have to do with body and position and momentum I guess. Teams get coaches from other sports to train specific skills, not sure which sport could teach you that.

No. 2 - Blows my mind this one. I take a lot of enjoyment out of giving it to a player who trys to bat it out fucks up and has a try scored against them.  I blame the coaches. Players for the most part aren't the sharpest tool in the shed, but surely can be trained to ground a football.

1. would be pretty hard to do imo....
2. Yeah or just catch it and get tackled with it... its an odd one

1. I suspect if you have time to dive under the ball before it is grounded, then you have time, and a better chance, of making a tackle on a player and trying to force it free. That's why so many tackles in that circumstance are them trying to slap the ball out.
2. I don't think it's safer and easier to ground the ball personally. I don't see many times when they attempt to bat the ball dead and fuck up, but I do see plenty of times when an attacker trying to ground the ball is shown not to have grounded it effectively when it goes to the video ref. To be honest it probably happens 3-4 times a round. They don't try to catch it because it is a play which is more likely to lead to an error, or a strip, or a lost ball in the tackle.

So the sharks are the real deal hey..?!
You can just see the confidence and energy everyone is playing with there. Its great to see!