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Friday night’s match between Manly and Canterbury-Bankstown provided a wonderful spectacle.
Each side scored five tries. Canterbury dominated the first half and looked set for a convincing victory then Manly fought back to provide a thrilling finish to eighty thoroughly entertaining minutes of football.
Then we watched an extra four sets.
I am interested in your opinion, you the partisan supporter, who are the majority of the viewers who tune in to Friday Night football.
Did the extra four sets of football and the winning of the game through a penalty goal by Canterbury enhance your viewing experience? Or did it take something away from the experience?
I am sure if you ask any Canterbury supporter they would say it was great but that would be cancelled out by the Manly supporters who would say it was an anti-climax.
OK, I will tell you now that I am ‘old school’. I have experienced some exciting golden point situations but on balance I am not a fan of the format.
I associate ‘extra time’ with end of season finals football and in those circumstances an extra 10 minutes each way was just as exciting as ‘golden point’ extra time.
On Friday night I felt the brief period of extra time tarnished the match. When Lyon potted the goal from wide out to lock it up at 30-30 I felt that it was a great match and a draw was an entirely appropriate result.
I don’t mind the effect on the premiership ladder when a team gets a single point from a draw.
For years now semi-final standings have been determined by ‘for and against’ with teams all on even numbers because of the lack of drawn matches.
I prefer that standings are determined purely on points.
Golden point extra time places enormous pressure on the referees and they referee differently under those circumstances. They will say they don’t but it’s obvious they do and it’s understandable because they are human and pressure affects all of us.
It takes a brave referee to penalise a player for what could be a legitimate but minor indiscretion.
They know it will likely cost them the game. I don’t just mean penalties in kicking range. A penalty anywhere on the field will result in field position later in the set that is in field goal range.
If we have to have extra time during the regular season then I would prefer it be that only a try can provide the ‘instant’ winning of the game. You still play a maximum of 10 minutes extra time.
If a team kicks a field goal or penalty it does not stop the game.
If a team scores a try and the try or the conversion puts that team in front on the scoreboard then the game is over with that team winning.
Under ‘golden try’ Canterbury would have had to continue to play with a 32-30 lead and play out the remaining seven minutes to win.
Or Canterbury may have opted not to kick and go for the try and get the instant win. Manly could have got the instant win if they scored a try after conceding the penalty goal.
The only way a team could win in extra time when the other team scores a try would be by kicking enough points to be leading by more than the value of a try.
My preference though is stick with the result at the end of eighty minutes.
What is your verdict on golden point extra time footy fans?
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