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I would like to heartily congratulate Andrew Johns on being the eighth player added to the list of rugby league Immortals. The Immortals is…
Having watched North Queensland get bundled out of the NRL finals race at the hands of Manly, again - and at the SFS, again…
The fact that there is a “manual” of sorts released before the start of each season and handed out to media (Andrew Voss paraded a copy on the Roast a few years back from memory) really underscores the problems you mention. If you’ve watched the game for years, why should you need a handbook on key areas that are going to be focused on for the coming season? One year it was play-the-balls, another it was grappling in the ruck, then gang tackling, then the “downtown rule” came into vogue … what you’re saying makes a lot more sense. We don’t have to regress to the bad old days of messy rucking and scrimmaging, but we can simplify a lot more.
It's time for the NRL to think outside the box
Wholeheartedly agree – touch judges, too. Give control of the game back to one referee from kickoff to fulltime, and touch judges could do the job of policing the 10 while the main referee controlled the ruck and the game. Two touchies and a referee with access to video replays where needed.
It's time for the NRL to think outside the box
I’m not surprised mate, it seems to me like such a simple and straightforward solution that surely a few people have pondered it before on occasion.
It's time for the NRL to think outside the box
Does anybody know what sized screens the video referees have access to in the box? Also in an interview with David Morrow on ABC Grandstand yesterday, Bill Harrigan mentioned the cabling used as being an issue that needs to be addressed. Anyone with a bit of technical know-how would be aware of how poor the image quality is on a TV if they simply used RCA cables to connect it to the video feed – now I like to think this could never be a possibility in this day and age, but what if they are? What if the video refs only have small screens running of RCA cables to watch replays on? If they are, then that explains EVERYTHING!
Benefit of the doubt: When video can't be conclusive