Can't believe that is the right intepretation of the rule, sure Mickey will correct me

As long as the ball initially travels backwards that's all that matters, it makes no difference which way the ball bounces after it hits the ground to a knock on call, initial travel back means it is not a knock on

Thanks for the clarification. That's what I had thought, but I'd seen some decisions in games in the last couple of years which made me think perhaps it had been changed.

The difficult one is when a player is facing his own line, it's assumed that any ball dropped must be backwards, not the case, the ball can come through the hands and end up travelling fwd to the direction of play.

If the ball comes out as much as officials do not guess sometimes it's a judgement call, if the ball has come out then you have to make a decision one way or the other

Makes it hard to make the call sometimes, if ball comes out and it's not obviously backwards if it then bobbles forward chances are it's likely to go against the person dropping the ball.

Not forgetting any dropped ball after the tackle is complete irrelevant of direction of ball travel is a knock on.

Thank goodness looks like we have started well up in batley

Still find that astonishing, but accept the experts.



On a different point, who is the commentator on the radio, w

He is a joke.



Appalling penalty count, but we are winning comfortably!

Pretty good 1st half scoreline.



And we're attacking down hill 2nd half so should be easier.... In theory

Mickyb1234 On Friday Toulouse number 6 received a head injury and was treated on the pitch for a number of minutes. He was bleeding and they strapped his head, he was then allowed to play on. Now can I have your judgement as a referee. As blood was on his shirt and he received a head injury am I right in thinking a. he should have changed the shirt and b. he should have received a 10 minutes assessment off the pitch, appreciate if you could clarify for me.

Well done another win

Great win, this weekend has got us back on track, boost to points difference, no injuries by the sound of it. Get Battye, Ackerman back and we can push on!

Who's Ackerman?