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News.com.au
2 days ago
- Sport
- News.com.au
Craig Bellamy shuts down Ivan Cleary over issue with tackling rule after penalty try controversies
Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy says any rivals not happy with rules that prohibit players being tackled in the air can 'put an application' in to change them amid claims his team is benefiting more than others. Storm winger Xavier Coates was awarded a penalty try in last week's win over the Brisbane Broncos after being tackled in the air while in the act of scoring, which was outlawed in 2020 to match the international interpretations. Former Storm superstar Cooper Cronk suggested his old team were exploiting the rule by putting up kicks for Coates in the in-goal area knowing he couldn't be tackled. Days out from a grand final rematch between Storm and Penrith, Panthers coach Ivan Cleary also said more 'common sense' was required in judging what players could and couldn't do to stop opposition sides scoring. 'I think it's one of those ones where the rule was originally made, we tend to forget why it was made and we drift off and it becomes something else,' he said. But Bellamy gave a quick slap back to any of those complaining. 'That's the rules. Doesn't matter what I think. Doesn't matter what anyone thinks. It's the guys making up the rules, so that's the rules,' he said on Wednesday. 'If you want to put an application to get the rules changed, they can do it. But at the end of the day, I'm not going to worry about that. 'That's the rules, so that's what we'll go play to.' Melbourne will go into Thursday's showdown without star fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen, who suffered some delayed concussion effects after the win over the Broncos last Thursday. Bellamy is hopeful that Papenhuyzen will only be sidelined for a week. 'He's just got apparently a head knock last week, didn't really sort of think too much about it and then he had a couple of headaches over the weekend and then basically got ruled out from there,' he said. 'Unless there's other complications, we're expecting (him) to play next week.' Papenhuyzen's absence comes as the Storm prepares for a hectic month leading into the finals, with clashes against the fourth-placed Panthers, third-placed Bulldogs, and ninth-placed Roosters before another clash with the Broncos to round out the regular season. But the daunting task isn't one Bellamy is thinking about, with his team looking for yet another top-four finish. 'It is what is what it is,' he said. 'I don't know whether having tough games is good or whether a mixture is probably better, but it is just how the draw is, so this is what we got prepared for. 'You're not sitting back saying, 'Oh we like this or like that', it's not the case, it's not reality. 'Reality is that's who the four teams we're playing and we'll worry about this week. We'll worry about today and then as the weeks turn over, we'll worry about our next opposition then.'
The Sun
2 days ago
- Automotive
- The Sun
Rules of ‘shotgun' revealed – as a THIRD of Brits still use tactic to decide front passenger, survey shows
NEW research has established the rules of riding 'shotgun' in a car - and found the spouse of the driver should not automatically get the front seat. The phrase 'riding shotgun' stems from the American Wild West, when stagecoaches had an armed guard up front to fend off bandits. 2 In modern times, it means calling dibs on the front seat. And with 31 per cent of adults still calling shotgun to bag the front passenger seat, a study of 2,000 adults has now revealed the official rules that should be followed. Before the game even starts, it found anyone with physical needs overrides all other claims (22 per cent) - but aside from this, it's simply a case of the first person to call 'shotgun' gets the front seat (17 per cent). However, once you have bagged the front seat, your claim only lasts for one leg of the journey (11 per cent). And nine per cent believe you must be in view of the car to win. In the event of a stalemate, 12 per cent said tie breaks are sorted by the driver, and one in 20 (five per cent) select the winner by a quiz question. The study was commissioned by Tempcover, which has revealed the Official Rules of Shotgun and partnered with JLS star JB Gill ahead of the band's reunion tour, which will see him embarking on road trip adventures across the UK. JB, who is encouraging Brits to use the official shotgun rules to avoid any potential car squabbles, said: 'Calling shotgun before a car journey has sparked friendly competition over who gets to ride in the highly prized front seat for generations. "Ever since I first started driving, the front seat was always the one that every passenger wanted and as you can imagine, it's led to MANY heated debates. "Every driver has their own shotgun rules so having official rules in place means there's now a neutral way to make the decision and (hopefully) help the journey start smoothly from the off'. It also emerged that the middle seat in the back is the least preferred spot in the car. While the person who does get the front passenger seat should be prepared to make some sacrifices – by being on hand to act as navigator, and DJ – but should only play songs the whole car will enjoy. The light-hearted game often leads to disputes though, with 26 per cent admitting they have had an argument over the coveted position. With siblings (49 per cent) the most common opposition when it comes to bagging the front seat – however, 30 per cent have even had disputes with their children. Following the tension, 42 per cent admitted they have even refused to get in the car. The research, carried out via found 30 per cent have resorted to fabricating excuses to sit in the front – with the most common being to help the driver navigate. However, 28 per cent have used travel sickness as a ploy to get out of the back. Although for many, the rules of shotgun will be more applicable than ever, as 39 per cent prepare to embark on a summer road trip, and 36 per cent will be travelling with more than four people. Due to extra luggage and equipment, 17 per cent will be borrowing a bigger car for their summer activities. Marc Pell, managing director at Tempcover, which offers temporary car insurance so people can borrow a bigger car and take turns behind the wheel, added: 'With summer here, more people are taking to the road with friends and family. 'We asked people to share their ultimate shotgun wisdom to keep the rules simple and the process fair - helping car journeys start with fewer disputes over who gets the coveted front passenger seat with its better view and extra legroom. 'And if you share the driving, you can all take it in turns to ride shotgun too.' TOP 10 RULES OF SHOTGUN: 1. Anyone with a physical need overrules 'shotgun' 2. The driver has final say and can overrule 'shotgun' 3. The first person to call 'shotgun' gets the front seat 4. If two people call it at the same time, it's up to the driver to decide 5. 'Shotgun' only lasts for one leg of the journey. It starts again for the return trip 6. 'Shotgun' is final – once called you can't recall it 7. The 'shotgun' winner must be ready to leave at the driver's preferred time, otherwise 'shotgun' rights are withdrawn 8. You must be able to see the car to call 'shotgun' 9. 'Shotgun' resets once people get out of the car 10. Calling 'shotgun' more than a certain time before a journey makes it invalid
Forbes
4 days ago
- Politics
- Forbes
Trump 2.0 Has Signed 16 Congressional Review Act Resolutions Of Disapproval
In recent roundups of the Trump-era administrative state and its 'Unrules,' we've noted that the Trump administration is on track (so far) to issue the lowest annual tally of rules and regulations since record-keeping began in the 1970s. While a number of Trump rules take the form of recissions, rollbacks, delays and relaxation of enforcement, it is the congressional 'Resolutions of Disapproval' of late-term Biden rules that are getting much of the attention. Rooted in the Congressional Review Act of 1996, these allow Congress and a new president to overturn certain rules issued late in a predecessor's term. To some extent the attention that CRA's get makes makes sense, as these disapprovals tend to zero in on some of the most prominent recent regulatory activity. In the current setting, it is Biden's aggressive and even punitive green agenda getting upended, not just by Congress and its CRAs, but prominently by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (as a flurry of tweets from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attests in the latter case). Before Trump 1.0, there had been only one resolution of disapproval signed into law -targeting Department of Labor rulemaking on repetitive-motion injuries. But then in a rapid 2017-18 change of pace, the Trump administration overturned 16 Obama rules. Turnabout was not unexpected, so the Biden era brought three reversals of Trump rules (notably on relaxation of emission standards and bank lending), as part of what proved to be Biden's wholesale rejection of regulatory streamlining as such in favor of what his administration dubbed 'whole-of-government' progressive interventions. Here we are in 2025. So far in Trump 2.0 there have been 16 resolutions of disapproval of Biden-era rules (the most recent signed into law on June 20, as compiled below). Of dozens of candidates for potential overturn by CRA resolution of disapproval (I did an inventory in this column late last year) Congress did wind up getting rid of some of the most noteworthy. That comes with a big caveat, however. While the CRA does get used to eliminate some of the most significant, headline-grabbing and prominent regulations, the CRA cannot fundamentally roll back the administrative state. Remember; the CRA has been with us since 1996. A pace of a couple dozen rule eliminations per generation - however large or costly and worthy of revocation they may be individually - is a slog that just won't do to preserve limited government over the long term. Consider: betwwen 1976 (when federal agency rules first started getting counted in the Federal Register) and year-end 2024, 220,813 final rules were finalized. So far this year, another 1,560 rules have been issued (granted, a sizable number of them the recissions and relaxations noted) for a total of 222,373. A few dozen CRAs makes just a dent. Not only that, as CEI's work on agency guidance documents, policy statements memoranda and other forms of regulatory dark matter attests, conventional notice-and-comment regulation increasingly comes nowhere close to capturing government intervention in the economy. That intervention includes the likes of antitrust regulation (which I like to refer to as the Original Sin of the administrative state, although even it has forebears); tariffs; and perhaps most distressingly, regulatory laundering via the procurement/contracting behemoth and subsidies, grants and public-private partnerships. Topping the list and responsible for all the rest is congressional disregard of enumerated powers, its unwillingness to leave any corner of economic or social life alone and the collapse of federalism. But still, during White House transitions, the CRA resolutions are the splashiest and most headline grabbing, and they do matter a lot for planning and strategy. There's also an interesting twist to all this in 2025. So far, there have been are "only" 31 public laws enacted in the 119th Congress. But half of them (16, as noted) have been CRA resolutions of disapproval. It's kind of funny to think that half of 2025's laws are Biden rule-killers. We've long needed legislators willing to come to DC, not to 'get things done' and be otherwise meddlesome, but to get things undone. The year 2025 has served as an example of how to go about that. Among prominent CRAs in 2025 are the Department of Energy's conservation standards ("We now have the technology available to eliminate efficiency!" our CEI founder Fred Smith would joke about wrongheaded federal policies). EPA is dominant of course, along with some finance rules. What follows is the to-date compilation of rules and the public law overturning them. As the year progresses, these may be tracked at the Government Accountability Office's landing page for Congressional Review Act goings-on:
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Beyond a joke': NRL fans call for immediate rule change after Cowboys incident
NRL fans have once again called for a change to the rules after a Cowboys trainer impeded the game when entering the field during a bizarre moment in the Eels' win at CommBank Stadium. With the scores locked at 18-all with 13 minutes left to play, the Cowboys were put on their heels after a great kick from Parramatta. Cowboys back Braidon Burns threw a wild pass that evaded Semi Valemei and went out the back and flew towards the in-goal area. However, the ball bounced and hit the Cowboys trainer running behind play. The trainer had just entered the field for the first tackle and didn't expect the ball to go behind the Cowboys backline. But it did and play stopped after the players were left bewildered at what happens next. To the astonishment of NRL fans, the referee ruled a mutual infringement and the Cowboys got a play-the-ball. This heavily favoured the Cowboys with the Eels potentially going to force a drop out if it didn't hit the trainer and a Cowboys player scooped it up near his own try line. Under the current NRL rules, the team in possession is given the ball if it hits a trainer in their defensive half, but it goes to the opposition if it occurs in the attacking half. And fans have once again called for a change of rules surrounding trainers after the second incident in two weeks. Last week, a Panthers trainer copped a five-game ban for running across Jayden Campbell's line of sight when he was lining up a conversion with the Titans leading Penrith. Much was made of the Panthers incident with the club copping criticism for previous trainer controversies in recent years. This isn't the first time the ball has ricocheted into a trainer either. During the 2019 NRL grand final, Roosters half Luke Keary had his kick charged down by Sia Soliola. The ball hit Soliola's head and incredibly ricocheted into a Roosters trainer's head 10 metres away. There was every chance a Raiders player was going to get to the ball first and make a break down the field, but play stopped and it benefited the Roosters. The NRL's rules state that blue shirt trainers must be off the field after the fourth tackle. The rules also state that the trainers are only allowed on the field during stoppages, or to run messages to the team a maximum three times per half. Furious NRL fans want rules around trainers changed The Steeden bouncing into the Cowboys trainer was a freak accident. The trainer was following the rules and allowed on the field. Although it hasn't stopped fed up fans calling for an amendment to the rule to only allow staff on the field during breaks. There are growing calls for trainers to only enter play when the ball goes out of play, a try is scored or during a general stoppage due to an injury. This would reduce the risk of trainers getting in the way again. Others feel the 'mutual infringement' rule needs a change as well. The Cowboys were at a disadvantage during play when the ball hit the trainer, but were rescued with a play-the-ball thanks to the rule. Many fans feel regardless of how it occurs, if a ball hits your trainer on the field it should be a turnover to the opposition. The NRL could be set to review a number of rules around trainers at the end of the season with two incidents in two weeks causing uproar. And fans feel the less we see of trainers on the field the better. Let's get these trainers off the field @NRL — IMARoostàr🐓 (@IMAROOSTAR) August 10, 2025 Sorry what?!? And Cowboys get to play the ball, what a joke @NRL #NRLEelsCowboys — Hynesight (@Hynesight7) August 10, 2025 Can we seriously look at the trainers involvement on the field in the offseason. Result aside tonight its super annoying to look at when you watch games. The game will open up so much more without trainers. #nrleelscowboys #NRL — Joseph (@JosephCasa3) August 10, 2025 Something needs to be done about @NRL trainersFirst, last week, now during the Parra game was going in goal, and it hits the Cowboys trainer — Sam Curro (@samcurr95262813) August 10, 2025 Ban the trainers from the field of play FFS. It's beyond a joke. Other contact sports would look at it and piss themselves laughing. It's beyond a joke. @nrl — Chris (@TeddyCJD) August 10, 2025 NRL Trainers simply should never be on the field during any kind of general play unless there's a stoppage — Cam Sánchez (@CamMagicMan) August 10, 2025 Andrew Voss calls for less trainer involvement Veteran commentator Andrew Voss expressed his outrage last week following the Panthers incident against the Titans. Voss called for the NRL to implement a rule change around trainers that would eliminate many of the issues and frustrations from fans. "Can we bring in a rule when a team passes 50 (halfway line), the trainer must get off the field?" Voss posed on SEN radio last week. "They don't need to be there after that. No one needs water and only in the case of an injury. The NRL need to make this change today." On Sunday during the Eels and Cowboys game he said: 'Seriously, is there any need for the trainer to be out there so early in a set? What are we doing. Peter V'landys (ARL boss), you have work to do.'
Fox News
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Avoid These Flying Faux Pas!
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