If you were an NRL coach, would you coach your players to use obstuction plays ?

I would be coaching my players to do it D.

The Bullgrubs have been scoring a couple of tries per game with this illegal tactic but the NRL seem to be happy with letting them get away with it so i would be coaching my team to do it every play.

Edit@Premiers

Mate you are a Dogs supporter so of course you don't see any problem with it.

Go back through the season and watch the Dogs games without your blue and white blinkers on and just see how many times the dogs score tries off of blatant shepards.

It's there to see plain as day and the dogs have won many a game with this tactic.

Take away every try the dogs have scored off of a shepard and i doubt they would have enough wins to be in the top 4 let alone minor premiers.

When Pritchard ran through the Tigers player already had a hand on the bulldogs player as he fell hook line and sinker for the decoy, which eliminated any obstruction, the tigers player is the one that turned it into an obstruction for himself by falling for the decoy. you only need to put a hand on a player to constitute an attempt to tackle so that's why it was the correct call the ref got that one right. I don't see anyone whinging about the piggy back that tigers got over the line last week with the incompetent refs then, tigers got two points last week from incompetent referreeing so if they think this week was unfair then they should consider it even out from last weeks points they whould not have got, even though they legitimately didn't get the two points this week. I don't know why both teams didn't just cut a deal with each other not to score in extra time and just go through the motions as it would have suited both teams to get just one point anyway.

Pritchard didn't do it intentionally. It was accidental. He stuffed up the play as premiers said he ran behind his own man only because he was forced behind him by I think galloway so it should've been play on and ashyford milked it he even changed his line to tackle Morris who ran on the inside of him so he could've kept running on the outside. But I agree with you on the rule being ridiculous and having more interpretations than the Bible. If your tackled behind your own man still means a shepherd than it's a penalty but if it means play on then it wasn't the refs have more knowledge of the rules than you or me but I do agree the obstruction is a huge confusion and headache to everyone. I would've understood why the try was disallowed but there are some money altercations and different types of obstruction its hard to simply explain an obstruction.

What about Josh Morris' disallowed try Galloway clearly stripped the ball back so it's play on then morris scored. But of course you won't hear that from channel nine commentators they probably get a bonus for being tigers biased all game because channel only care about their rating the sooner a new channel is given the tv rights the better for everyone except for tigers and souths fan that is who channel are completely biased too.

Why isn't the 7-2 penalty count to the tigers mentioned or the tigers players walking off the mark so farah could gain more yards and the Tigers getting away with everything but if the bulldogs stepped a toe out of line they were instantly penalised. The tigers are garbage and the only team they've beaten in the 8 are a storm team without the big 3. The raiders, titans or knights are much more underrated and more deserving teams than the pair of them.

No, but not because i'd be a goody-goody but because the one time I needed it would be the one time the refs picked it up.

Two referees are not working, go back to one. As well, the refs shouyldn't be told what to look for and what not to look for. Jusy let them ref as per thye rule book and if it means blowing the whistle every couple of minutes so be it. The players and coaches will soon catch on.

Yeah Barrett's been surprisingly unlucky. he's been knocked out lots of situations this twelve months yet he continually tries to conflict on. i think of he's all the way down to 4 suggestions cells now the poor bloke. the entire chicken team has been surprisingly luckless: Nate Myles incident, Fitler incident besides as being the main forced participant interior the comp, Minichello has been out surprisingly lots all twelve months, favourites for the wood spoon. they are able to't capture a ruin...yet however which you're making your person success interior the NRL.

@Bobo - you are out of your mind. That is the first time this whole season the bulldogs have done a play like that. And it was obviously an accident. Pritchard stuffed the play up, it wasn't supposed to happen like that. He was supposed to get the ball to Barba before he ran around Morris. But he fluffed it and then improvised.