Once again the problem is that the gun shy refs are sending everything upstairs.
If they just made a decision on the ground this wouldn't be as big of an issue in the game. They were good for 1 week and then went back to old habits of literally checking everything.
Unfortunately in the modern era though, they can't make it on ground. The scrutiny is too great. We're in the information era, the technology era. We know we can see it, so we demand to. That's probably what happened - they started going with their gut, but then got gun shy with the technology.
Although having said that, these plonkers can still look at the video and come up with something different. Then their boss can say it's 50-50? f**k off. Cmon NRL. We're rubbish enough without copping this sort of stuff.
I don't think slow speed made either Hetherington or Simonsson's efforts look like no tries. Bunker are just f**k-knuckles.
No, I don't either. But slowing it down can make it feel different...unrealistic. You lose the feel of how that looked in real time.
Then you follow that with the tone deaf assertion that "The Bunker generally do a very good job on the decisions sent to them" after the round they just had..
They trot this one out when they're f**king things up. '96% of our calls are correct'. Well 90% of them are deciding if the sky is blue or the sun is hot. 5% might be pretty obvious and just hard enough for a trained monkey to not grasp, 1% take knowledge of the rules then they f**k up the other 4% that they should get right. I've not seen one person (save Annersley now) who thinks Hetherington's was a no try and that Simonsson should've been binned.
