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  • cruiser
    What the frack!
    • Jul 2004
    • 6114

    Holding the ball

    On at least 5 (maybe 6) ocassions on Saturday night Sydney players were rightly pinged for holding the ball due to slow disposal or pulling the ball in under them. I think Eski was the worst offender. Its not good enough. Hopefully it's on the coaching panel's list of things to raise today with the team, along with accuracy (again) in front of goal.
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    • Jan 2003
    • 15970

    #2
    I would think the coaching staff has instructed the players to keep the ball in as much as possible. I can't imagine all the players would have a natural volition to drag in the ball.
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    • punter257
      Deadliest Left Boot
      • Aug 2004
      • 1660

      #3
      bevan and dempster are the worst at this
      Roosy = LEGEND

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      • NMWBloods
        Taking Refuge!!
        • Jan 2003
        • 15819

        #4
        Originally posted by punter257
        bevan and dempster are the worst at this
        After Ablett of course...
        Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

        "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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        • punter257
          Deadliest Left Boot
          • Aug 2004
          • 1660

          #5
          Originally posted by NMWBloods
          After Ablett of course...
          haha yeah i forgot about the king of this
          Roosy = LEGEND

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          • sydneyswans1989
            bleeding red and white
            • Jun 2005
            • 384

            #6
            I thought LRT was hardly done by when pinned for holding the ball but we do need to do something about because it happened way too many times.

            The umpires are hot on it one match then the next they arn't. We choose the wrong night to do it I guess.
            Forget about Hall, it's all about Bradshaw

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            • NMWBloods
              Taking Refuge!!
              • Jan 2003
              • 15819

              #7
              Originally posted by sydneyswans1989
              I thought LRT was hardly done by when pinned for holding the ball but we do need to do something about because it happened way too many times.
              I thought that one was so obvious. He just lay there and did nothing.
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              • sydneyswans1989
                bleeding red and white
                • Jun 2005
                • 384

                #8
                Originally posted by NMWBloods
                I thought that one was so obvious. He just lay there and did nothing.
                He got fairly tackled, taken to ground & had a port player laying on top of him appealing for 'holding the ball'. LRT did the best thing he could do by just laying there because he could'nt do much else with someone else basically laying on top of him. The umpire should have balled it up, im a field umpire myself & would have done that.

                I do think though he needs to dispose the ball more quicker but in that instant he got hard done by.

                i feel your pain Lewis
                Forget about Hall, it's all about Bradshaw

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                • floppinab
                  Senior Player
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 1681

                  #9
                  Some of these are not justified but I reckon the umps see the amount of times we do sit on the ball and will penalise us more because of that record.

                  It just seems so obvious on a lot of occasions it's almost as if the players have been instructed to sit on the thing. When it happens it just seems a bit weird.

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                  • floppinab
                    Senior Player
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 1681

                    #10
                    Originally posted by sydneyswans1989
                    LRT did the best thing he could do by just laying there because he could'nt do much else with someone else basically laying on top of him. The umpire should have balled it up, im a field umpire myself & would have done that.

                    I do think though he needs to dispose the ball more quicker but in that instant he got hard done by.

                    i feel your pain Lewis
                    Umpires will be more lenient if the player does make a reasonable attempt to move the ball out. If you lay on the ball like a dead walrus they will ping you every time, we do this so often as I said above it's as if the players have been instructed to do it.

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                    • Jeffers1984
                      Veterans List
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 4564

                      #11
                      Yes it was frustrating that the regulars got called for HTB but is it too much to ask for that they at least make a concious effot in trying to get the ball out (using excessive force like attempting to punch the @@@@ out of the ball) instead of surrendering once tackled to the ground.
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                      • sydneyswans1989
                        bleeding red and white
                        • Jun 2005
                        • 384

                        #12
                        Originally posted by floppinab
                        Umpires will be more lenient if the player does make a reasonable attempt to move the ball out. If you lay on the ball like a dead walrus they will ping you every time, we do this so often as I said above it's as if the players have been instructed to do it.
                        Like i said how could of he made some attempt when he was flattened by another player?
                        Forget about Hall, it's all about Bradshaw

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                        • NMWBloods
                          Taking Refuge!!
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 15819

                          #13
                          Originally posted by sydneyswans1989
                          He got fairly tackled, taken to ground & had a port player laying on top of him appealing for 'holding the ball'. LRT did the best thing he could do by just laying there because he could'nt do much else with someone else basically laying on top of him.
                          The whole point is he didn't do the best he could do. He should have tried to make the appearance of an effort to get it out. He just lay there - always a free kick. You can still make an effort when someone is lying on you, and you have to when you've already had a chance to do something.
                          Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                          "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                          • goswannie14
                            Leadership Group
                            • Sep 2005
                            • 11166

                            #14
                            Originally posted by NMWBloods
                            The whole point is he didn't do the best he could do. He should have tried to make the appearance of an effort to get it out. He just lay there - always a free kick. You can still make an effort when someone is lying on you, and you have to when you've already had a chance to do something.
                            If someone is lying on you, should that be in the back?
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                            • Mel
                              Regular in the Side
                              • Jul 2005
                              • 883

                              #15
                              Originally posted by goswannie14
                              If someone is lying on you, should that be in the back?
                              This is the rule that constantly confuses my poor NRL born and bred husband. I don't blame him either. The interperatation of in-the-back seems to change from game to game, or sometimes even DURING a game. Very frustrating.
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