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Date Posted: Sat, March 15 2008, 22:42:09 GMT-10
Author: Greg Pfeiffer
Subject: Knock-ons in the NRL

One of the great frustrations already this season is the number of dropped balls that are ruled to be "knock-ons" when clearly the ball has not travelled in a forwards direction.

It seems that either the refs are not confident to let play go on when there is a dropped ball and/or they are taking a very soft option in calling up a game for a knock-on.

In the game I just watched, a terrible call of "knock-on" was made - the replays showed the ball went backwards from the player ruled to have knocked on, and that the ball was actually knocked-on by the team given the scrum feed - which nearly resulted in the a team scoring a try.

Teams are consistently being penalised for dropping the ball backwards, and it should be eliminated at this level.

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