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.
Markers in No mans land
Re: Markers in No mans land
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.
"And Martin Offiah, trying to make some space, now then..." - Ray French, Wembley 1994
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Interviewer: So that obviously means that you're not going to St Helens and you're not going to Leeds?
Frano: I don't know why I would ever want to go to St Helens or Leeds
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Interviewer: So that obviously means that you're not going to St Helens and you're not going to Leeds?
Frano: I don't know why I would ever want to go to St Helens or Leeds
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Re: Markers in No mans land
Is the same thing happening down under or is it another consequence of the poorest group of referees that oprate in Super League?