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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 995620" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>True. But I have sympathy for the defending team here too, given the laws and how they're policed. The attacking team is generally allowed more privilege than they deserve, but the stakes are higher at the line. The attacking team is not actually allowed to fall to the ground at the ruck, the tackled player is technically supposed to roll away, the attacking team is not supposed to have more privilege for picking up the ball in a ruck, is not technically allowed to go to ground with the ball close to the ruck,!isnt technically allowed to make double movements.</p><p></p><p>A very common occurrence close to the try line is this:</p><p>Players gets tackled, attempts to shift his body around so he can place the ball over the line, defending team tries to stop him by lying in the way. Defending team gets penalised or, if not, attacking team puts more bodies on the ground, and of course the tackled player doesn't roll away because that has literally never happened. Now there are bodies over the goal line and the defending team has to be behind those bodies. Technically the attacking team has to pick the ball up behind those bodies and behind anyone bound to the 'ruck' (=pile of bodies), instead attacking player in middle of ruck picks the ball up and illegally flops to ground, placing the ball in The middle of the pile of bodies to score a try. Or, if not, his team mates drive him over the line after he has already gone to ground, and then he scores the try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 995620, member: 65365"] True. But I have sympathy for the defending team here too, given the laws and how they’re policed. The attacking team is generally allowed more privilege than they deserve, but the stakes are higher at the line. The attacking team is not actually allowed to fall to the ground at the ruck, the tackled player is technically supposed to roll away, the attacking team is not supposed to have more privilege for picking up the ball in a ruck, is not technically allowed to go to ground with the ball close to the ruck,!isnt technically allowed to make double movements. A very common occurrence close to the try line is this: Players gets tackled, attempts to shift his body around so he can place the ball over the line, defending team tries to stop him by lying in the way. Defending team gets penalised or, if not, attacking team puts more bodies on the ground, and of course the tackled player doesn’t roll away because that has literally never happened. Now there are bodies over the goal line and the defending team has to be behind those bodies. Technically the attacking team has to pick the ball up behind those bodies and behind anyone bound to the ‘ruck’ (=pile of bodies), instead attacking player in middle of ruck picks the ball up and illegally flops to ground, placing the ball in The middle of the pile of bodies to score a try. Or, if not, his team mates drive him over the line after he has already gone to ground, and then he scores the try. [/QUOTE]
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