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2025 R13 Sat - Gold Coast 16-28 Melbourne @ Cbus

Round 13: Gold Coast v Melbourne

  • Gold Coast Titans

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Melbourne Storm

    Votes: 6 85.7%
  • Draw after Golden Point

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .

Apey

Moderator
Staff member
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There's no clear, definitive indicator for the correct centimetre required to make that call.

The correct call should be that it's line ball and therefore too close to make a call of offside.

It shits me when they miss howlers and then act like they have superman-like laser vision on other calls that are bee's dicks one way or the other.

Make the obvious calls and stop trying to suddenly be super-f**king-man!
I agree, I'm not saying this one wasn't close, just the correct call was made. And it was never going to get over-turned in the bunker despite LU deluding themselves he was clearly behind.

If you want to see what an obvious offside looks like. Tackle 5 Titans first set of the game, Sam Verrills is a minimum 2m offside, Papuyhuzen catches it on the 5m line, is tackled by Verills on the 10m line.
 

Warrimoo3

Juniors
Messages
903
NAS was clearly offside when he chased Hughes’ kick with 26 min to go in the 2nd half. A good metre. That was the one where Melbourne challenged the NAS knock on and the bunker upheld the challenge. The bunker did not check whether The chaser (NAS) was onside. They only looked at the challenge. It resulted in 6 points to the Storm. Badger should be sacked for not following protocol by

My bad. I’ll put it down to parallex error. Apologies to the bunker.
 

speedster

Bench
Messages
3,397
I agree, I'm not saying this one wasn't close, just the correct call was made. And it was never going to get over-turned in the bunker despite LU deluding themselves he was clearly behind.

If you want to see what an obvious offside looks like. Tackle 5 Titans first set of the game, Sam Verrills is a minimum 2m offside, Papuyhuzen catches it on the 5m line, is tackled by Verills on the 10m line.
Yeah, I just think this one was too close to uphold the decision and so they should reverse it on basis of there being insufficient evidence to back the initial call by the ref.

I know that's not the current rule but I wish they'd change it for calls such as offside like these. It should be either clear and undoubted offside otherwise it isn't.

Anyhoo ... ;) Good chat.
 

Generalzod

Immortal
Messages
35,499
Yeah, I just think this one was too close to uphold the decision and so they should reverse it on basis of there being insufficient evidence to back the initial call by the ref.

I know that's not the current rule but I wish they'd change it for calls such as offside like these. It should be either clear and undoubted offside otherwise it isn't.

Anyhoo ... ;) Good chat.
The very picture that he posted proves he wasn’t offside.
 

Belza1

Juniors
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218
NAS was clearly offside when he chased Hughes’ kick with 26 min to go in the 2nd half. A good metre. That was the one where Melbourne challenged the NAS knock on and the bunker upheld the challenge. The bunker did not check whether The chaser (NAS) was onside. They only looked at the challenge. It resulted in 6 points to the Storm. Badger should be sacked for not following protocol by
Go to specsavers
 

gerg

Bench
Messages
2,601
NAS was clearly offside when he chased Hughes’ kick with 26 min to go in the 2nd half. A good metre. That was the one where Melbourne challenged the NAS knock on and the bunker upheld the challenge. The bunker did not check whether The chaser (NAS) was onside. They only looked at the challenge. It resulted in 6 points to the Storm. Badger should be sacked for not following protocol by
He wasn't even trying to catch the ball. He just stuck an arm out after jumping into the bloke trying to catch it. Clearly impeded him. It should have been a Titans penalty.
 

Bazal

Post Whore
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He wasn't even trying to catch the ball. He just stuck an arm out after jumping into the bloke trying to catch it. Clearly impeded him. It should have been a Titans penalty.

I mean it probably started as a disruptor attempt but it's a bit hard to argue he wasn't going for the ball once he played at, and made contact with, the ball...
 

gerg

Bench
Messages
2,601
I mean it probably started as a disruptor attempt but it's a bit hard to argue he wasn't going for the ball once he played at, and made contact with, the ball...
It's the very reason that disruptor interpretation was introduced. To stop the player from just running through the player attempting to catch the ball. But I guess we can just let it slide? It's not like the Melbourne Storm to take the absolute piss out of the rulebook.
 
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