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You’re confusing two different situations.
In Origin Sutton stated that NSW were challenging Qld taking the ball dead. This is a decision that can be challenged – as it’s a call made by the referee that results in a break in play and play restarts with a structured restart (line drop out).
This game the only call was tackled. If there was 30 seconds left, Laurie gets up and plays the ball. That’s not a structured restart.
Comparing to Origin 3 just proves you don’t understand the rules being referred to.
Your point that perhaps it should be allowed is fair enough – but that doesn’t take away from the fact that currently the rules don’t allow it.
The NRL thinks you are all idiots
The short whistle vs long whistle isn’t what makes the challenge allowed or not. Neither is whether it’s full time. That’s half the point of the article and you seem to have been distracted by the NRL’s spin.
The fact is it wasn’t allowed to be challenged because there was no call by the referee that results in a break in play where play restarts with a structured restart. Whether it’s full time or not is irrelevant, that’s just the NRL trying to distract people.
There is such a thing as a “short whistle” but you’re taking that literally thinking it means the referee didn’t blow his whistle long enough. Short whistle is just the term for the referee blowing end of time, before he blows again and signals full time. In any case, that’s all irrelevant, as there was no call by the referee that can be challenged.
The NRL thinks you are all idiots
Sutton correctly says in the game “NSW are challenging the ruling of Qld taking the ball dead”. That’s a call that results in a structured restart (line drop out), and so can be challenged. A play the ball isn’t a structured restart, so can’t be challenged in the case of the Cowboys v Tigers game.
The NRL thinks you are all idiots
Not completed sets? I would suggest the 55% second half completion from NSW had plenty to do with the result
Freddy's Panthers obsession is what cost the Blues Origin
Leota isn’t eligible. They thought he was, and had him in the future Blues camps etc – then found out later he didn’t move to Australia until too late, and isn’t eligible
Freddy's Panthers obsession is what cost the Blues Origin
Spot on. He only rediscovered form after being moved down the order.
Can ice cool Renshaw fuel Warner's fire in the Ashes?
The point is that it’s been from the middle order. He struggled at the top and was dropped from Queensland after being dropped from Australia.
Maddinson moved to opener when he moved to Victoria and blitzed it there until he had to move down the order for the good of the team. He should be ahead of Renshaw, as should Usman and Pucovski (if fit).
Can ice cool Renshaw fuel Warner's fire in the Ashes?
Yeah, nothing to do with Renshaw averaging 22 in test cricket after he made his century.
Can ice cool Renshaw fuel Warner's fire in the Ashes?
You’re claiming Gilchrist – who had to leave NSW to get a decent chance, as an example of NSW bias?
And conveniently leave off the long time selection of Wade as Australian keeper, not to mention Inglis, Philippe, Carey all being worse keepers than Peirson and Harper.
Steve Smith over Mark Waugh? Pick your best catcher – runs are a bonus!
Was a strange one, Fox seemed to have him with acceleration, then Staines really took off when Fox drew level and held him off – possibly even pulling away at the end.
Was almost like Staines wasn’t going flat out until he realised Fox was going to beat him to the ball.
Panthers young gun does the unthinkable, beats the Fox in a foot race
What a stupidly worded article. He was 100% third choice half – which means first backup. He wasn’t first choice bench utility, as May showed he can play centre, second row, lock, hooker or five eighth – and until the GF played all well at different times through the year.
Burton is a 6/7 that was slowly being trained in other positions and spent a little bit of time at centre towards the end of the season.
You don’t come across clever, you come across clueless, suggesting Burton wasn’t backup to Cleary and Luai.
Penrith want compensation for a fourth-choice half with six games to his name
Not sure what these left side raids that ended with a kick straight to their players were.
The kick for the try he sightly over kicked – but guess what, NSW scored. He kicked NSW out of trouble throughout the first half when the forwards couldn’t get out of their own half, and that 40/20 was a huge big game play.
He had a couple of wayward kicks late in the match (the midfield bomb, the chip and chase), but generally that was through Qld pressure – it was pretty obvious where the ball was going on the fifth.
Six talking points from State of Origin Game 3
The Cleary bashing from NSW fans never ceases to amaze me.
“At 22, age and inexperience can no longer be used as an excuse for Cleary on the big stage”
Cronk didn’t make his origin debut until he was 26, and that was off the bench. At the age Cleary is currently, it was JT’s first full year starting in first grade. 22 is extremely young for a halfback, and he’s still far and away NSW’s best option at 7.
His kicking in the first half prevented NSW from being a long way down at half time, including some big early kicks and that 40/20 from 30m out when his forwards were making no metres. If NSW (Walker) doesn’t lose the ball in the subsequent set, who knows how big that play could have been. He kicked for around 650m despite NSW not having an awful lot of ball. That’s massive, and whilst kick metres aren’t a metric that are looked at much, behind a beaten forward pack they were one of the only things keeping NSW in the game.
Wighton definitely suits him better in the halves, especially at this level. Walker is a great front runner, but is never going to turn a game around when his team is struggling. Wighton at 6, with Cleary’s kicking game is a great combination – Wighton would also take more pressure off Cleary with a second option on clearing kicks.
Did he make some mistakes late in the game? Sure, but generally through trying things.
The forwards, poor bench rotation and poor selections cost NSW this series – not the 7.
Six talking points from State of Origin Game 3
Awfully researched article. Stoinis plays for WA, Maxwell’s stats for Australia are greatly impacted by context – batting low in ODIs, shuffled around in Tests, where he’s only played in Asia etc. Meanwhile, both will likely miss the Shield rounds due to white ball national team commitments.
How Maxwell and Stoinis can do Australian cricket - and themselves - a big favour
The issue with your system is having the minimums for the all rounder the same as the bowler. This disqualifies Maxwell (I believe) and means you have a longer tail.
Maxwell as the all rounder, then Burns into the top 6 is a better balanced side.
You also need a stronger emphasis on wicket keeping, Wade shouldn’t be considered in test cricket with the gloves.
Moneyball: Selecting the Australian Test team on stats only
Oh my goodness. This is spot on.
Any the only thing I would change now is possibly dropping SOS now after his series against India (possibly for Patterson), and keep Harris for now over Renshaw.
Harris has had two good domestic summers since moving to WA, and looked the pick of the Australian batsmen this season.
Has Joe Burns become invisible to Australia's selectors?
Ferguson? He’s been poor since being (unfairly) dropped.
Has Joe Burns become invisible to Australia's selectors?
Both are better options than Marsh, Finch, Head and possibly Handscomb
Has Joe Burns become invisible to Australia's selectors?
Show any body else apart from Smith’s stats in the tests Maxwell played vs Maxwell’s – and consider Maxwell has been moved up and down the order, and suddenly he doesn’t look nearly as bad.
Compare other players first 7 tests in Asia – much less those also being their first 7 tests, and again Maxwell’s record isn’t so bad.
You also referred to his domestic record this season, from the massive sample space of 4 innings this season, but neglect to mention that in one of those he was run out ridiculously unluckily when looking set on 50+. Also neglect to look at the much larger sample space of his overall Shield record where he averages higher than Michael Hussey – let alone Travis Head and Aaron Finch.
But hey, the “Maxwell throws his chances away”, “he’s his own worst enemy” etc. The fact is his red ball record is superior to those he’s up against for selection, he’s a handy bowling option and the best fielder in the country…But never played a home test.
Has Joe Burns become invisible to Australia's selectors?
And vs Denmark, a corner won by Kruse no less
An exhaustive search to discover the point of Robbie Kruse
Oh and Kruse won 3 corners in the first half. It’s no coincidence one of them led to our goal.
An exhaustive search to discover the point of Robbie Kruse
Never seen such one eyed writing being passed off as impartial.
The first thing you do is somehow tries to implicate an inside forward in the first opposition goal scored by their star central midfielder?! You even mention that he was in space. Surely in a counter attack you’re better to have a free man between the 9 and the ball, rather than pumping it forward and hoping. We’re seeing typical Kruse hating at work here.
It then says Kruse should have first timed from that cross from Leckie. A cross that was behind him and impossible to hit from where he was. Watch the footage over and over. Kruse making a diagonal run into space, good cross from Leckie, unfortunately behind Kruse no way to hit first time. A touch was always necessary. From the rebound Mooy tries to first time a shot when he has loads of time – and hits it straight at a defender. We ignore that. We like Mooy.
Fails to mention when attaching down the left, we have 4 danish defenders being dragged across, Kruse cuts back and gets the ball to Rogic in one of most attacking positions he has it all game. Rogic passes to Leckie who whips in a dangerous cross, unfortunately missed by all.
Oh and the big “moment of offensive illiteracy” he refers to is the shot that wins is the corner which gets us the goal. Of course the article fails to mention that
It also fails to mention the space Kruse finds and quick one two he does with Behich down the left in the second half that led to a great Behich cross – and one of the most likely moments in the second half.
It seems the biggest issue the article has is that Kruse cuts in. That’s clearly under direction from the manager. He’s a left inside forward, not a left winger. The article also admits Kruse makes good runs but often isn’t picked up by a pass. These runs are exactly what Australia need more of, and they don’t just create space for Kruse, they create movement in the attack and defence and open up the field.
He produced the corner that won us the penalty. Not producing when it counts?
Kruse isn’t a left winger. He’s a left inside forward. We don’t have a natural left footed attacker (anyone who has followed football long enough knows how big an issue this was for England over the years). His role is to run lines, create space and set up Behich for crosses. He did all of those things.
It’s ok, all Australian National team managers and the various German sides he’s played for are wrong. The once every 4 year Socceroos fans are right.
An exhaustive search to discover the point of Robbie Kruse
Since you’re being pedantic, I will be too. Lewis didn’t play any games in the ARL either, he played in the QRL then the NSWRL. ARL didn’t commence until 95
The 100 best players in NRL history: 10-1
Is this Fittler? If so, he never played prop. Not sure where you found that statistic. It was 74 at lock.
The 100 best players in NRL history: 10-1
“Karim Bagheri coming from a suspiciously offside position to score Iran’s first goal.” Tell us you don’t understand the offside rule without telling us…
Yes, the first goal was offside, but it was Azizi – the man who passed the ball back to Bagheri, who was offside. Bagheri well onside.
The death of El Tel makes the anniversary of Socceroos' 1997 shock more painful than usual