As you can see there is no selective pausing as you wrongly suggest,when BJ sprints and taps the ball,he did it as fast as he could hence why it's hard to pause it with ball touching foot.As this is before the tap and the players are virtually in the same position,anyway take it however you want I just thought i would show it since the topic has been dominated by it and no one has seen a shot of the Wakefield tap only the Leeds one.Neither tap had a impact on the game and I'm not taking anything away from Leeds since this had no bearing on the game.

Richard Moore isn't back, and the ref is pointing at either Moore or BJ.

I think the point being made is about consistency, which could have stopped the Leeds quick tap, which could well have stopped the final Leeds try, but there is a difference between the two restarts.

I agree about the consistency,but on the day I missed this on the TV and had to go back and watch it once I'd read this topic and the impression I'd got from people is Wakey had 2 players who were offside by some distance when he pulled the restart back,but on seeing the replay I was surprised it was such a close call.

Leeds won on Saturday because over the 80 min they were the better side, only just or by a mile it does not really matter. Like last year they mugged us at the end of the game, we should take heart from the positives from this match in view of our recent performances and not let our frustrations overtake us by somebody who try as hard as he can is at best described as incompetent. I would wager this man cannot even spell the word consistancy never mind be expected to apply it. Just one point I would like to make Slugger and it is this, in your opinion which of the two indescretions is the most trivial as it deemed by some on here that ours must be ruled illegal because it appears a lot more severe than their tidgy widgy not worth mentioning illegal 20 metre restart, does that mean its acceptable to stand a yard offside when taking the tap or does that only apply to Leeds who it would seem have a dispensation from the referee to interpret the rules as they see fit.

If you spelt consistency incorrectly on purpose, that it way too deep a joke for most people on here.



The 20m restart is an excuse for the ref to be excessively pedantic, and generally, I would prefer that the players be allowed to get on with it, because does it matter if Buderus is a yard off the line. I suppose it could be argued that does it matter if Moore is a yard in front when BJ takes the tap. Again, not really, but I don't really have a problem with us being pulled back on ours. There are players everywhere and the ref is a long way back. On the Leeds restart, the only problem is really Buderus being a yard in front of the line, but that does that really matter, because on the same token, it looks like Johnson never went back to the 30m line before he turned to defend it, and similarly for BJ, and so the scope for an offside decision was there.

Why does it not matter if Buderus is over the line when he plays the ball, and at the same time it does matter if Moore is over the line, two seperate incidents but both of them are contrary to the rules, I say to you my learned friend one is as bad as the other and if one is an illegal play the ball then so is the other. As for my spelling mistake there was somebody on here this morning nosying sorry browsing from our friends up in the hills, him being very pedantic about spelling I thought I might have induced a reaction having said that he is not as intelligent as you

and probably missed it anyway

Knowing you, I thought it was probably a joke, with a big whoosh over it.

Absolutely correct, based on the actual rules of the game, and ignoring the new "latitude rule".

I agree with the "just get on with it" rule, as long as none of the players in an offside position have any influence on the play.

Moore, with his back to the defence and returning to the mark, has no influence on the play (and if the ball were passed to him in this position, it would hardly constitute an advantage to Wakefield, as he would have to turn on receiving the ball before he could make ground. It would also be a forward pass, of course).

Buderus, playing the ball a yard forward of the mark, gains an advantage for the 1st receiver.

As for the potential for offside, that applies to both teams, as the images clearly show.

Bottom line is, we lost. I'm sure you could pick loads of other incidents from the game that contributed to the outcome too. It's sad for us, but the result and the performance were a hell of a lot better than most of us expected, so take comfort from that.

As I have posted before, I only watched the game live, have not watched it again and the only other reference I have are your screen shot stills but I did see Moore as being off-side at the time (which while being tight, I think we agree he probably was?) and missed Buderus being in front of the line. I don't think Alibert was being inconsistent (as several people state), which to me implies he saw and decided not to bring back Buderus, yet had early decided to bring back Wakefield for Moore not been back on-side, but that he just completely missed Buderus being in front of the 20 altogether! I made exactly the same mistakes as him and that is all I think it was, a mistake!

I think the stats probably tell the story in the end, as they often do, and if you look at tvoc's opta stats that he posts (for this and every Rhinos games) I think you will see why - [urlhttp://viewtopic.php?f=17&t=455376[/url

The stats are very similar and quite tight but Leeds, in the end, made more yards over more carries (although a slightly lower average per carry) yet made more tackles, had the same number of errors and of course scored 6 to Wakey's 5 tries. Yes, you ended up on the wrong side of the penalty count and might not have really deserved to, but that is the story for me and explains why you were narrowly beaten.

I am not arguing with you but you can dress up statistics however you like, and therefore should not be the fundamental "story" argument to your case.

Can we just let this lie now, not directing at you IA but how many days has it been we know we lost, we also think we didn't deserve to being in front on the scoreboard for 78mins might help our case. Leeds fans think they deserve to win as they scored more points over 80 minutes the name of the game, but wakefield fans might think some factors conspired against us.

ATEOTD both sets of fans are going around in circles, furthermore each party should accept, believe their own view as they are not to be influenced by the other side's point.

Thats all I have to say on the matter.

your just a bigoted trogg

Where's the "porksters" Mutley and Snowie now, offside then a touch

I'm to the far left hand side behind the sticks, well on side


your worse than my dog he won't let go of the bone either,
week off for us

that's in the past

I dont sit on here 24/7 to reply, sorry for being late

IMO no he's not but i'll change that later ta.

Love that shot of the Wakey play. You can clearly see the pale white line a yard further forward, specially marked for Leeds... The "line of latitude", as it's known in rugby league circles...






Can we kill this now? We won't get the points, regardless

Yep i have done

but Lee Latitude for gawd's sake a little latitude