Referees Making Up the Rules on the Spot Thread

[Perth Red]

Refs have dropped the punching rule without telling anyone

 

[blue bags]

raiders v dragons , captain challenge, captain wins the challenge, ref ignores the captains win, didn't reverse the original decision ,
play on, wtf is going on . the refs get confused with captain challengers
tonight rabbits v tigers, cap challenge, tigers challenge the ref, then rabbits challenge the same challenge , rabbits win, after watching the big screen, these are crazy times lol

 

[blue bags]

Refs have dropped the punching rule without telling anyone

latrell Mitchel incident

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

latrell Mitchel incident

I think that was more of a ‘forgetting the rules’ than making them up.

 

[gerg]

Klein sinbinning Tamou for not being square at marker, when he clearly was. Then he must have realised he stuffed up so he sinbins Woods for pushing the Panthers player, when he didn't.

 

[skeepe]

You could write a whole new rulebook with the shit that Atkins and Chiddy came up with tonight.

 

[Apey]

Not allowed to tackle a player because he's fumbling the ball as you hit him - warriors titans

that's how Roosters got their game levelling penalty last week though

 

[some11]

This is what happens when you don't have a pocket ref to overrule some clown in charge.

f**ked bunker decisions cant be helped though. I can't understand how the raiders sin bin decison was reached other than he saw it the way he wanted to.

I sincerely hope officials are banned from betting.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I'm not sure if Cameron makes them up on the spot.

 

[Sphagnum]

Normal transmission has been resumed. No more policing of the ruck and all the leg ups in the world for Souths, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Such a shame

 

[mongoose]

Christian Welch running at full speed into Dunamis Lui who holds his ground. Welch falls to the ground and gets the penalty. If Lui falls over then he probably gets the penalty.

 

[edabomb]

Christian Welch running at full speed into Dunamis Lui who holds his ground. Welch falls to the ground and gets the penalty. If Lui falls over then he probably gets the penalty.

I doubt it. The official NRL flowchart ends with any 50/50 40/60 30/70 or 20/80 decision being ruled in favour of the Storm or Roosters.

I imagine the Storm bias will only get worse once Smith and Bellamy leave as they battle for relevancy.

 

[no name]

Atkins once again using the bunker incorrectly.
And the bunker once again completely f**king it up.

 

[Captain Apollo]

When the team has 13 players on the field, it is 6 in the scrum. When there are 12 players, there does not need to be a lock (there can be should the team choose). Think of it this way - There are a maximum allowable 6 players in the scrum, and a maximum allowable 7 players out of the scrum.

As for the Joel Thompson, that is technically true - second rowers are not allowed to pick up the ball and should be penalised for breaking from the scrum early or "Hand in the scrum". The reason for this is the ball can not be played at with the hands until it has exited the scrum, which is defined as the last row of forwards (though wording probably removed forwards now). The lock can pick it up once it passes the last row of forwards (the second row).

This is what the rules actually state (Section 12, Rule 9 on page 29) -

"To be in play, the ball must emerge from the scrum between and behind the inner feet of the second row forwards and the scrum is not to break until the referee calls “out”.
If the ball does not emerge correctly, and the fault cannot be attributed to any one team, then the ball should be put into the scrum again."

 

[Vee]

This is what the rules actually state (Section 12, Rule 9 on page 29) -

"To be in play, the ball must emerge from the scrum between and behind the inner feet of the second row forwards and the scrum is not to break until the referee calls “out”.
If the ball does not emerge correctly, and the fault cannot be attributed to any one team, then the ball should be put into the scrum again."

Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[Glen]

Parra challenges a call of a 20m restart for potential interference on Sivo.

Ref: "We may as well go back and check the obstruction before that too"

 

[blue bags]

Parra challenges a call of a 20m restart for potential interference on Sivo.

Ref: "We may as well go back and check the obstruction before that too"

so the captain dictates to the ref, enter smith , lol

 

[bileduct]

Parra challenges a call of a 20m restart for potential interference on Sivo.

Ref: "We may as well go back and check the obstruction before that too"

https://www.nrl.com/siteassets/operations/documentation/nrl_laws_interpretations_2020.pdf

Page 22.

If the Bunker determines that an infringement occurs prior to the element of the incident that is being challenged, the first identified infringement will supersede the challenge.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Normal transmission has been resumed. No more policing of the ruck and all the leg ups in the world for Souths, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Such a shame

Or whoever the refs decide they want to win on the day. I'm not usually a biased ref wowzer, nor usually say an x,y,z penalty count means anything, but the Titans not giving up a single penalty for 80 minutes is f**king horse shit. The refs did all they could to get them over the line, they were lying on us in the ruck for no comeuppance, the f**ked Hethrington no try, the play on call for Fusitua being taken out in the air after the Titans had been given one pretty much identical earlier...that was robbery on the weekend. And yes, the Warriors are, and were shit. But the refs got the Titans over the line.

 

[hrundi99]

This is what happens when you don't have a pocket ref to overrule some clown in charge.

f**ked bunker decisions cant be helped though. I can't understand how the raiders sin bin decison was reached other than he saw it the way he wanted to.

I sincerely hope officials are banned from betting.

It's because Addo-Carr played the Olympic-level diving card with flailing arms and legs.

The bunker bought it hook, line and sinker.