Mr. Ditkovich
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Yesterday, the referee called two penalties against Lewis for being offside and interfering with the dummy half. When would a marker be considered onside?
Markers must be square (directly in front of play the ball), second square marker must not be too far back (no man's land) even if square, if marker is found in no man's land must retreat the 10 metres before making contact or is penalized.. I was not really concerned about marker penalties yesterday, but more how souths blatantly slowed the ruck to get there line set in 2 situation, 1st tackle on kick return and after we made a linebreak.. it was bullshit how blatant it was...Yesterday, the referee called two penalties against Lewis for being offside and interfering with the dummy half. When would a marker be considered onside?
Like most of the rules, each referee has their own spin on them.Yesterday, the referee called two penalties against Lewis for being offside and interfering with the dummy half. When would a marker be considered onside?
Isn't he entitled to move once the ball has left the player's boot? Not when the dummy half picks it up? There were plenty of times when the Bunnies markers weren't square, especially when they were holding us down in our own half.I think its the one where we were defending our line. Lewis was marker and launched at the ball after it was picked up by the Souths dummy half.