Markers in No mans land

[cpwigan]

This applies to every team but IMO this is a huge blight on RL and negates lots of attacking opportunities and is far more importabt than being pedantic about touching the ball with your boot.

Player marking (c) One opponent may take up the position immediately opposite the tackled player.
Acting halfback (f) A player of each team, to be known as the acting halfback, may stand immediately and directly behind his own player taking part in the play-theball and must remain in this position, until the play-the-ball movement is complete.

Currently we have a large gap between tackled player and marker and then the acting halfback can be 5 yards behind preventing scooting or team targetting the spce between the POTB and the A markers.

[Matthew]

Or in leeds case they have more than 2 players between the POTB and the defensive line, slowly jogging back to basically act as blockers. Their markers often stand nearly side by side - which is also rarely penalised.

[MIKE14]

Is the same thing happening down under or is it another consequence of the poorest group of referees that oprate in Super League?