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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2828846, member: 8215"] It's hard to tell how far a team is actually back, as the cameras stay in tight until the ball gets spread or a break is made. So of-sides are tricky unless a defender shoots out and in to frame early. It is though quite easy to tell how far back the ref is holding a team, and it fluctuates so dramatically that it would take a very trusting person to believe it's not deliberate. Like square-up penalties, it is so easy to manufacture momentum shifts. It is rare that the tight camera shot will have two field lines (measuring 10 metres apart) in the frame, especially where the ruck is, but as the camera pans to follow the runner, you can see the play-the-ball spot and then the line that the ref was holding, and I shit you not that during South's resurgence we were being held back 13-14 metres. [/QUOTE]

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