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Rules that are a blight on the game.

BloodOath

BloodOath

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Sep 1, 2004
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After all the talk about the hands in the back rule i wanted to share the most frustrating aspect of our great game at the moment in my opinion.

I hate the in the back rule as it stands - it frustrates the sh!t out of me.
I hate the fact that everyone dives forward when tackled and if you land on theplayer its in the back. How can this be a push inthe back if your arms are wrapted around a player????

It drives me crazy - i hate its no where near how I remeber this rule. Has it changed over the last couple of season or just this season.
Does anyone else agree?
 
quicker way to manage this is to ask who LIKES the current hands in the back interpretation, once you get 2-3 responses you know you are done
 
The rules are fine, they haven't changed that much in 150 years. It's how they're being interpreted that irritates. The game's slowly but surely evolving towards a minimal-contact battle of athleticism.
 
But it appears that the hands in the back rule only applies to forwards. The amount of times I have seen hands clearly in the back at ruck contest not paid is amazing given that they pay them to a forward even if the hands brush the back of the jumper.
 
gustiger12 said:
But it appears that the hands in the back rule only applies to forwards. The amount of times I have seen hands clearly in the back at ruck contest not paid is amazing given that they pay them to a forward even if the hands brush the back of the jumper.
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The rule/interpretation whatever you want to call it is different for ruck contests. You are allowed to have hands on the back in the ruck, its only when a ball is coming in for a landing that you can't have your fingernail make contact with a loose thread of someone's jumper if it happens to be in the back region.
 
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