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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)
May 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
1 Manchester? Pure guess...
May 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
2 Baldoyle?
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
4 Sandown with the steps
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
3 Epsom
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"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
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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).
April 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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.
April 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
3 Crewkerne (go with the masses and hope)
April 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
2 Doncaster
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
4 Fontwell
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
1 Cheltenham
April 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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 🟨
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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.
April 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
3 Kempton (flipped image)
March 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
1 Goodwood

(If it's not Goodwood, it's Brighton - I'm sure I've seen that picture before).
March 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
4 Epsom
March 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm fairly certain that is the same image that got me my first ever podium with 3 Gatwick over on old Twitter.
March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
2 Gatwick
March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Also, "Mathel in a raffle" rhymes quite nicely😂
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
- Family cricket sets
- Old cricket club history bats
- The local rugby club
- Other memorabilia
- Mathel Parker (not brand new, but in good nick😂)
- Branded special edition kit
- Bottles (also branded and special edition)
- Special edition bats (cheap collectables, though)
- etc
December 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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 für ein verrücker Test!
December 5, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Only took me three weeks to get here😂😂
December 5, 2024 at 3:13 PM