Greg Alexander and Andrew Voss have pondered how much of a difference the interpretation of the ruck infringement rules between Australia and England had on the result of the First Ashes Test.<\/p>\n
Australia claimed victory with a comfortable 26-6 win against England at Wembley on Sunday, with Reece Walsh dominant throughout the full 80 minutes.<\/p>\n
But on SEN 1170\u2019s Breakfast, both Greg Alexander and Andrew Voss think that if the game had been played in Australia under the NRL\u2019s interpretation of the ruck, the Kangaroos’ margin could have been greater.<\/p>\n
Alexander: \u201cHow noticeable was it calling that game that the English interpretation of the ruck is far different to the interpretation of the ruck there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere could have been 50 set restarts. If that was an Australian referee handling that game\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Voss: \u201cYou\u2019re not exaggerating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander: \u201cUnder Australian conditions, the hand on the ball, the twisting, the turning of players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to slow it down as much as they could.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Grant Atkins picks them up quickly, if he pulls them up and has them on the back foot\u2026<\/p>\n
Voss: \u201cEight tries, Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander: \u201cIt could be 40.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Penrith Panthers great would then delve into the English squad, believing that the gulf of quality between the two sides is just too great.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you look at that side, Ethan Havard, Darryl Clarke, Matty Lees, John Clark, John Bateman, Kai Pierce-Paul, he didn\u2019t have a bad game, he offloaded the ball a few times,\u201d Alexander elaborated.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorgan Knowles looks like he\u2019ll be good when he comes to the Dolphins.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut where would that forward pack, where would that rank?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re picking seven Australian sides, team six would beat, I think this English side.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Second Test of the Rugby League Ashes takes place next Sunday (in Australia) at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool.<\/p>\n
Kick-off takes place at 1:30am AEDT.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Alexander and Andrew Voss have pondered how much of a difference the interpretation of the ruck infringement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-243424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}