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Should be experimenting with just the one video referee for every game every week.
'Every time we do black and white, it doesn't work': Does anyone actually understand the obstruction rule?
It’s harder to be patient when your team’s losing particularly when ranked below Liam Knight in the pecking order.
Then there’s Kautoga kicking the door down to get a start.
Gotta be close.
Foxx off AGAIN, Wighton grabs double and Latrell booed as Souths ease Demetriou pressure
Gee Gus threw us a huge dummy tipping Sam Hughes as this year’s breakthrough rookie.
Xavier Willison has been Kevvie’s best prop since finally getting a go.
He’s the one.
Foxx off AGAIN, Wighton grabs double and Latrell booed as Souths ease Demetriou pressure
The one where he was all over Dylan E. was even more shake your head stuff.
NRL's kick-blocker crackdown changes the game - but the question is do we want that?
One of the journalists in the presser last night asked Robbo for a comment on the disconnect between the refereeing decisions generally and public opinion.
But the disconnect isn’t only there, officialdom just isn’t improving and that’s on GA who has lost more than his own dressing room.
NRL News: 'Would have scored regardless' - Annesley's take on dodgy obstruction as Robbo refuses to blame Bunker
He does, but I was referring to Patten not May and the futility of fans arguing on this when even the governors read the tackle differently.
It's a contact sport, so we shouldn't be penalising tackles and suspending players just because someone gets hurt
‘It’s the way a player approaches the tackle rather than the outcome.”
Compare that to Patten’s view on the approach;
“In the lead up to impact, player May plants both feet with both arms down by his side in an attempt to make a body tackle.
“He does not lead with his shoulder or head unlike other previous incidents.
“Once the ball is passed by player Walsh, both players react to the imminent contact resulting in both players leaving the ground and accidentally clashing heads.
“The MRC does not see player May rotate his shoulder or raise his arms in an attempt to go through with the tackle.’
“They do not consider his actions to be either careless or reckless.”
Called as he saw it and punished according to how he’s been trained.
It's a contact sport, so we shouldn't be penalising tackles and suspending players just because someone gets hurt
According to the data, visuals and laws of the game the man responsible for judging the legality of tackles as interpreted by Luke Patten, the May hit was non punishable… as was the hip drop tackle that put Toby out for 6 weeks.
We’re spitting in the wind.
It's a contact sport, so we shouldn't be penalising tackles and suspending players just because someone gets hurt
James Graham makes a valid point.
2 weeks ago from the kick off Cam Mcinnes tackles and knocks out by accidental head clash the Doggies prop, a relative neville nobody.
Not only is there no action taken on Cam but to add insult to k.o. injury the Dogs are hit with the knock on.
A week later the glamour boy, face of the league, accidental head clash and the country goes seismographically nuts.
Moral of the story if you’re going to have such an accident do it on a nobody.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Did CNK think that out before getting under Garrick, who despite the bounce fell from a substantial height forcefully enough to fracture bones in his tail.
You can’t say play on out of the left side of your mouth and suspend Leo out of the right side.
Particularly if extent of injury is being used to decide the length of the punishment like it is.
Anyway the main point is Annesley discouraged any chance whatsoever of a fair hearing by coming out hard on the May case.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Apologies, still an independent committee, we’re lead to believe.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Cam, you can’t mind read.
If the Parra player is deemed an obstruction with all the ‘nevers’ around him, you can’t use that here.
It could be argued his catching position( under the ball) was taken off him by Papi jumping from well behind the ball, into it.
If you have eyes for the ball in a jump, that’s always been the optic they’re looking for and there are countless precedents where this has been accepted as fair.
By Annesley coming out now with soft judiciary accusations he has absolutely cruelled any chance of Thompson appealing on those grounds.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Why on earth would Annesley step out of his lane and kick the judiciary in the guts like that.
Does Patten now have the right to throw upper cuts on how GA is defending the obstruction rules ?
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
On the Leo Thompson incident.
When does a flying fullback running into the space of an at pace defender with his eyes also squarely on the ball, jumping simultaneously, get tagged with being reckless ?
CNK basically broke Reuben Garrick’s back last year in a horribly, similar incident and folk turned their other cheek and deemed nothing to answer for.
Key point has always been ‘eyes on the ball.’
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
They tried going down the ‘common sense’ track a few years ago.. and we landed back here.
Give the bunker even a faint sniff and they’ll take it off you.
Jurbo was the one who clocked off and he knew it.
Moses-inspired Parra prove they're finals contenders but Manly seething as Bunker lacks 'common sense' with no-try call
Sure, but there are no wouldas or shouldas built into that black and white rule.
Jurbo dudded you not the bunker.
Moses-inspired Parra prove they're finals contenders but Manly seething as Bunker lacks 'common sense' with no-try call
IDK if it was Nicho’s rare lack of energy or willingness of involvement that trademarks his game infecting the others or just one of those nights.
There was no speed from the Sharks in any part of their game, kick chase non existent, pressure on their kicker non existent, hurt either side of the ball non existent, locking up offload opps. Non existent.
Tigers gave them what they well and truly were begging for.
Api days are here again as hooker rises from sick bed to inspire Benji's Tigers to Sharks boilover
Has the cooling off period on the Luai purchase expired ?
Api days are here again as hooker rises from sick bed to inspire Benji's Tigers to Sharks boilover
With SJ outside him begging for it !
Back to the future: Roger returns to fullback and wins it for the Wahs with trademark magic moment
Last night Kev said, ..’ didn’t see much in it…just an accident..’ (in that French accent) ..‘a few moments later’.
'If the NRL are serious about concussions, where does this sit?' Kevvie fires up after May escapes ban for Walsh's fracture
Absolutely but there are collectively far more players out there with serious life difficulties around spinal, leg, internal and neck damage from constant legal defensive hammerings.
When do we start protecting their welfare.. ridiculous as it sounds.
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
Why stop with duty of care at the head ?
Breaking ribs and bending runners backwards whilst their feet are anchored can also have damaging physical handicaps in later life.
Is that next ?
The game at this level isn’t purely about putting opponents to the ground, it’s based on hurt and tolerance to pain, and players rejoice at dealing in it.
Marvel at the courage.
This is a main attraction to the sport, getting hit and getting up again.
Penalise it sure, but don’t drive it out of the game.
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
The punting of Wong, Bud Sullivan after less than an hour, and Dally M leader or should be, Hosking haven’t been given the same kind of attention yet are just as interesting.
Drop it: Ilias and Hastings weren't selected, but saying they were dropped might miss the point entirely
Regarding the Hastings ‘change’.
First of all there’s conjecture over whether it was form or off field related, they were an eyelash away from knocking off the Cowboys.
But beyond the rumor you want your most skilled fastest on foot and thinking in the 7 and giving smart ball to your weapons, regardless what happened end of last year, that’s not Hastings.
He offers no creativity or danger to defences ball in hand who have easily jumped on and nullified Ponga, who you’d think would’ve been consulted with on the change.
Gamble is next.
Drop it: Ilias and Hastings weren't selected, but saying they were dropped might miss the point entirely
Toby Rudolph out till R8 ‘using body weight to drag down from behind’ from Api last week.
No charge.
Will Kennedy isn’t half the same player since being hit with the same ‘uncharged ‘ tackle prior to last year’s finals.
NRL Round 4 judiciary: Hip-drop drama as Benji and Bennett wade in, Latrell charged, Morrin in strife