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Message: [QUOTE="Anonymous person, post: 2453370, member: 2115"] [b]Re: Finals Week 3 Discussion[/b] no, you dont seem to be understanding lol. did you even read the bit i highlighted? It says that rules are allowed to be enforced by adding them to the referees guidelines without having to amend the laws of the game. the guidelines are used to clarify and add to the laws so that the "laws" document isnt constantly changing. theyre not there to help them work out the rules, theyre there to ADD to the rules. take separation for example. nowhere in the laws is separation mentioned. nowhere. the NRL changed how the ball could be grounded from requiring control to just requiring no separation, agreed? they DID NOT change this in the laws of the game document. what they did do however is add it to the referee guidelines, as this is where they are able to quickly and easily add new rules that are 100% enforceable. another good example is the new "downtown" rule. again - theres no mention of it whatsoever in the Laws of the game document. it was added to the referee guidelines as such: "DOWNTOWN CHASERS Any player who is in front of the kicker in a general play kick is not permitted too intentionally advance beyond the point of the previous play the ball until the ball has gone past the offside player" if the referee guidelines werent rules then this would not be enforceable. the offside player would be able to advance beyond the point of the previous play of the ball as long as they dont come within 10m of the kick returner. because they are enforceable though, we now have the "downtown" rule. the referee guidelines are enforceable rules. there are no ifs, buts or maybes about this - they are rules, just like the ones in the "laws of the game" document are. do you seriously still not understand this? [/QUOTE]

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