Use the bin refs!

[Wizardman]

Last night's game was an absolute disgrace to rugby league. The 33 penalties in the game made it absolutely awful to watch. The game simply cannot continue in this mode.

To fix this problem, the refs must be backed by the NRL to use the bin more often. Coaches instruct their players to give penalties in the red zone in order to slow the game down. The vast majority of penalties have been blown in this area of the field. Only way to solve it is to use the bin for repeat penalties within the red zone, not just threaten to use it.

While frustrating to admit it, a lot of tonight's penalties were justified. While the Luke Lewis binning was embarassing, many of the penalties were correct (Storm stepping over the line almost every tackle, Slater SHOULD have gone to the bin, Cam Smith should prob have been binned twice, Chambers grapple, Kasiano's lack of discipline, Addo-Carr ref abuse, Vunivalu strip of the ball in the first minute. Brailey jumping offside about 5 times etc). Players and coaches deserve to share the blame with the refs here. Time to use the bin and cut the warnings for repeat offences, especially in the red zone.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

I agree
Blow penalty
Next time penalty with warning
3rd time
Bin

They will soon learn
Also with one team down 1 or even 2 players ..the game quickly opens up .
& the braindead players will eventually learn not to break the rules .

 

[cleary89]

13 sin bins used in 27 games. Has the sin bin ever been used more?

 

[Spot On]

Bin away refs.

Then watch some if the whinging fans on LU blow up about the amount of players sent to the bin!

Bring it on.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Lol
Yep
After years of whinging by fans ..the media etc about holding down in tackles ..wrestling offside ...refs not penalising .....finally the issue is addressed & what do we get .
Complaints .
It's not ideal at the moment .
But they need to take it a step further ....bin bin bin .
I'd bet after some teams were down to 11 men for a few games suddenly the players will find some discipline .

 

[typicalfan]

Some of those penalties in the end the teams didn’t care they were conceding. The bin should be used to prevent the frustration. There was a case for the bin to be used at least 4-5 times last night especially towards the end.

 

[myanonymoususername]

I was thinking last night, in a game with 30 + penalties we really should have seen about 6 sin binnings. When they get to a sequence of penalties quickly in succession the refs should be binning a player every penalty after about the 3rd.

I'd also have thought that send offs for repeated infringements might have been considered.

 

[RufusRex]

Bin the captain too for repeated infringements not the bloke to gave away the last penalty

 

[Shorty]

Yeah good luck with that.
Players are being binned more already and the team a player down ends up scoring, so the actual binning is rendered useless.
This has happened several times in the rounds, in a lot of cases the team with the player binned ends up winning the game.

Not having kicking goals for penalties would solve the situation.

 

[siv]

I would like to see the 5 min sin bin return for repeated infringements ie 3 successive penalties

 

[t-ba]

Yeah good luck with that.
Players are being binned more already and the team a player down ends up scoring, so the actual binning is rendered useless.
This has happened several times in the rounds, in a lot of cases the team with the player binned ends up winning the game.

Not having kicking goals for penalties would solve the situation.

How does removing a teams opportunity to score an easy two points from an opposition infringement solve this problem?

 

[Springs09]

I would like to see the 5 min sin bin return for repeated infringements ie 3 successive penalties

Or we could just have the 10 minute sin bin. There's nothing wrong with it.

 

[Springs09]

Yeah good luck with that.
Players are being binned more already and the team a player down ends up scoring, so the actual binning is rendered useless.
This has happened several times in the rounds, in a lot of cases the team with the player binned ends up winning the game.

Not having kicking goals for penalties would solve the situation.

pffft they'd just give away a penalty every tackle then. There'd be no deterrent at all. After penalties teams have more time to get set and there are no quick taps inside the 10, why not give one away? Just wait for the opposite team to drop the ball.

 

[t-ba]

Or we could just have the 10 minute sin bin. There's nothing wrong with it.

It's a rough penalty in isolation but in light of what the Refs are trying to do atm I think it's perfect. I'd say binning the captain for repeated infringements rather than the player who committed the final offense would also be a good way of getting it through their heads. Can't imagine anyone wanting to deal with an angry JT or Cam Smith for their stupidity.

 

[Shorty]

pffft they'd just give away a penalty every tackle then. There'd be no deterrent at all. After penalties teams have more time to get set and there are no quick taps inside the 10, why not give one away? Just wait for the opposite team to drop the ball.

It's not a deterrent anyway? We've had send offs in most games and it hasn't changed how teams play at all, the penalties continue unchanged til the end of the game.

 

[Springs09]

It's not a deterrent anyway? We've had send offs in most games and it hasn't changed how teams play at all, the penalties continue unchanged til the end of the game.

Because coaches haven't changed their tactics yet. If the tactics are to still give away deliberate penalties inside the 10 then players are still going to do it. Coaches are used to coaching cheating tactics so they aren't going to change until they know it won't work anymore. Maybe once a team has 10 players on the field to defend their tryline they might think it's not such a good idea anymore.

 

[siv]

Then keeping binning the players

As the points and losses mount up coaches will realise and start adjusting

The one who does first will win more games

 

[typicalfan]

Yeah good luck with that.
Players are being binned more already and the team a player down ends up scoring, so the actual binning is rendered useless.
This has happened several times in the rounds, in a lot of cases the team with the player binned ends up winning the game.

Not having kicking goals for penalties would solve the situation.

This has always been the case with the sin bin that’s rugby league but I’m sure teams would prefer not to have a player down or even potentially two at once if it’s bad enough

 

[Rabbit toes]

Bin the captain too for repeated infringements not the bloke to gave away the last penalty

This isn’t as bad as it sounds.

 

[thorson1987]

Last night's game was an absolute disgrace to rugby league. The 33 penalties in the game made it absolutely awful to watch. The game simply cannot continue in this mode.

To fix this problem, the refs must be backed by the NRL to use the bin more often. Coaches instruct their players to give penalties in the red zone in order to slow the game down. The vast majority of penalties have been blown in this area of the field. Only way to solve it is to use the bin for repeat penalties within the red zone, not just threaten to use it.

While frustrating to admit it, a lot of tonight's penalties were justified. While the Luke Lewis binning was embarassing, many of the penalties were correct (Storm stepping over the line almost every tackle, Slater SHOULD have gone to the bin, Cam Smith should prob have been binned twice, Chambers grapple, Kasiano's lack of discipline, Addo-Carr ref abuse, Vunivalu strip of the ball in the first minute. Brailey jumping offside about 5 times etc). Players and coaches deserve to share the blame with the refs here. Time to use the bin and cut the warnings for repeat offences, especially in the red zone.

What made last nights game awful to watch was both teams played like shit and made plenty of errors.

Nothing to do with the refs enforcing the laws of the game.