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Right, here are the guesses:
1 Manchester (pure guess, not a clue).

2 Baldoyle (Irish and Ballydoyle?)

3 Epsom (round parade ring, stand and downs in the background, or is it a mountain?)

4 Sandown (trees and steps)

05.05.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1 Manchester? Pure guess...

05.05.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2 Baldoyle?

05.05.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

4 Sandown with the steps

05.05.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3 Epsom

05.05.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"When a player loses possession of the ball & it goes forward, or when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm, or when the ball hits the hand or arm & goes forward, & the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it."

The MOs didn't see it like this

24.04.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I get what you're saying, and in some cases, I agree with you. Especially when players tell me (a ref) that every deliberate knock is a yellow card.

This example isn't great, though, because it's not ruled a knock on which needs to fit the definition in the laws (see next reply).

24.04.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's why "intent" is taken out of the equation. All actions are - at the pro level - either intentional or reckless. That's why one part is whether there was a reasonable expectation to regather the ball... cos referee can't read minds.

21.04.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

3 Crewkerne (go with the masses and hope)

21.04.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2 Doncaster

21.04.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

4 Fontwell

21.04.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1 Cheltenham

21.04.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's why during a review for a deliberate knock on, the 1st thing checked is if it's an offence, for which the sanction is a penalty under law 11.3. Only then is the question what effect this action (determined as illegal) had. If it stops, eg, a linebreak, then the ref may use law 9.7a & show a 🟨

21.04.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does a shirt pull in football potentially get punished the same way as a leg breaking tackle?

Because it's not only the action that's being looked at in the case of the shirt pull, but it action brings.
One is dangerous, the other is cheating/gamesmanship/deliberately infringing the laws.

21.04.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The sight of the referee in England v Italy repeatedly having to run the length of the pitch to watch a replay of something was was clear and obvious on first viewing and then run back again to issue the sanction

Was hilariously unnecessary and frankly a shambles. Have 2 screens lads.

24.03.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
New TNT Sports gimmick to β€˜make scrums sexy’ Intricacies of scrum may seem dull for some but David Flatman has become a master at making the mundane sound interesting

β€œIf you tell the viewers that scrums are boring and too complicated, they will eventually believe you."

Spot on from Flatman.

www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...

24.03.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

3 Kempton (flipped image)

17.03.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1 Goodwood

(If it's not Goodwood, it's Brighton - I'm sure I've seen that picture before).

17.03.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

4 Epsom

17.03.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm fairly certain that is the same image that got me my first ever podium with 3 Gatwick over on old Twitter.

17.03.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2 Gatwick

17.03.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, "Mathel in a raffle" rhymes quite nicelyπŸ˜‚

05.12.2024 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

- Family cricket sets
- Old cricket club history bats
- The local rugby club
- Other memorabilia
- Mathel Parker (not brand new, but in good nickπŸ˜‚)
- Branded special edition kit
- Bottles (also branded and special edition)
- Special edition bats (cheap collectables, though)
- etc

05.12.2024 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Das war 'n unglaublicher match. Rankin und Murtagh konnten sich im ersten Durchgang richtig austoben und wurden dann im zweiten von Leach und Roy ausgenommen.
Und dann Stuart Broad und Woakesy unter den Wolken Londons...
Was fΓΌr ein verrΓΌcker Test!

05.12.2024 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only took me three weeks to get hereπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

05.12.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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