Western Sharkie
Jaws
I’d be interested to see a side and back view simultaneously side by side.Seeing it live I thought it was an obvious obstruction.
Even if you take Hughes out of it, McDonald was obstructed. If he is able to push across there it remains a 3 on 3.
Was McDonald going to get Luai? Probably not, but he deserves the opportunity. If Luai beats Hughes then straightens and makes a line break outside McDonald it is play on. He didn't do that though. He ran behind his own player and then made use of the advantage it gave him. If McDonald had taken 3 quick steps and ploughed into Lindsay Smith it wouldn't have even required the bunker.
100% the correct call for mine. Only reason fans are blowing up is because some obvious ones like this have been let go in the past.
To me it looks like Hughes has clear opportunity to get to Luai and tried to make it something that it wasn’t (as they all do), and there are NO players around being impeded or forced to change direction to try to get to Luai as a result of the runner running through, and I question if McDonald was impeded as it looks like he just jogged along as he was normally doing.
Im still not convinced this is not a **** call.
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