The best way to avoid BOD is to prevent the opposition team crossing your line! If we start giving BOD to defence then we run the risk of turning SL into NRL.

Yes I can agree with pretty much all of that. Leeds are a long, long way from being anything special at the moment. I thought Wigan were truly awful on the night and Leeds while better than that made far too many errors to be classed as anything other than ordinary.



Skill levels are pretty poor this season so far and I've yet to see a game that was anything other than mediocre.



Hopefully it'll improve as the season goes on for all of us.



Oh and Peacock's waited five months for that decision after the one in the play off game went Wigan's way.

I'm afraid I disagree with most of this.



Lulu try - correct decision, no try.



Hock try - have we really, as a game, come to the point where a player who knows he cannot make a tackle has only to throw himself at a stationary player in order to get a perfectly worked try disallowed!

Sure, if the attacking player changes his line to 'block' the defender but deliberately running at a player and claiming obstruction is making a mockery of our game. Let's be honest...and this should be the defining reasoning here...had O'Loughlin not been on the field the Leeds player would not have prevented that try!



Peacocks try - These are given as 'no try' every week. In fact Leeds held a couple up the previous match at Warrington and rightly got the decisions. The defender should be credited just as much as the attacker. Nowhere can the ball be seen to touch the ground, yet you can clearly see it held up. As a Leeds poster says elswhere, you can only 'guess' that it 'probably' touched the ground. That's not good enough. The only actual evidence suggests that it was held up. Why should the benefit go to th attacker when the only evidence available supports the defender?! As an aside look at the player's reactions. Peacock doesn't celebrate the try and Richards is vociferous in his claims that it has been held up by O'Loughlin. Player reaction is usually as good an indicator as anything else!



I thought Smith was poor last night. He never called a single forward pass, despite there being many, including some that lead to tries and missed 2 blatent reefs among many other things. However we lost due to our own errors, so in the end it's all just tomorrow's chip wrappers...

The Wigan dummy runner really needed to run through the line and not stop, causing a potential block on a defender. I'm sure we've all fallen foul of this, Leeds did last season at Harlequins for instance.

biased in what way please?

I'm not particularly questioning the decision so much as the fact that the video refs have come to interpret it this way. It was always the case that a player had to 'alter their line' so as to be seen to be deliberately bocking (or obstructing

) another player for this decision to be given. Now all a player has to do is launch himself at a stationary player in order to get a perfectly worked try disallowed! That's a pathetic interpretation of the rule IMO and I'm not sure how we, as a game, have come to accept it.



Just one question. Do you think the Leeds defender would have prevented the try had O'Loughlin not been there? I doubt he would have even got a hand to Hock let alone effected the tackle on a player in full flight! That should be the sole arbiter of whether he was obstructed or not.

I'd need to at least have a few more looks to judge on that one. As I said before though had the Wigan dummy runner continued his run through the line then there would have been no problem. It's a coached tactic for the dummy runner to halt around the gain line/defensive line to create a block and open a hole in the defence. While Ablett certainly made the most of the block, the Wigan player being stationary there minding his own business as it were, gave the struggling defender an easy way out.

True. But that's exactly what's wrong with giving these decisions to the defender throwing themselves at a stationary opponent. There should be nowhere to hide on a rugby field. If he wasn't up to the task at hand (which he wasn't) he/his side should pay the penalty. There was no infringement or hinderence to him making the tackle had he spotted the break early enough. He didn't and was left floundering. Giving players this 'soft option' is, as I said earlier, making a mockery of the rule.

And on the other side of the same coin Wigan's dummy runner was needlessly stood still in the defensive line, causing his own team a problem as it turned out, so it cuts both ways.



At least simple crossing with no defender in touching distance is no longer the automatic penalty that it once was although occasionally it's still blown up.

In a way, you're right. In pretty much all of our league games this season, we've been there to be done over.



It therefore begs the question why have five teams, all of whom work under the same regulations and restrictions that Leeds work under, been incapable of doing it?

from your posts crusher i can see you really love your team! and fair do's to ya. but this post is born out of great disapointment with your own team and non of it is really true.

every team in every professional sport are coached to play the rules to there own advantage.



you change the law and coaches in defence or attack will find a new way to bend them.