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Seriously, what a f**king moron.
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Seriously, what a f**king moron.
Nah, Buettner will be lining up to get some low profile pleb done for six weeks to make himself look good.
NRL match review chairman Michael Buettner admits mistake over Martin Taupau-Jack Bird hit
PHIL ROTHFIELD, The Daily Telegraph
June 9, 2016 7:00pm
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The NRL match review committee has finally admitted what every rugby league fan has known for months — they stuffed up and incorrectly graded the worst act of thuggery this season.
At Brookvale Oval in round three, Manly forward Martin Taupau viciously attacked the head of Sharks young gun Jack Bird, almost knocking him unconscious and forcing him from the field.
Taupau was suspended for just one week.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal match review chairman Michael Buettner recently came under heavy fire at the NRL coaches conference over his panel’s inconsistent decisions and, in particular, the Taupau-Bird high shot. He admitted to the 16 coaches the Taupau decision was wrong.
“Yes, that’s correct,” Buettner said when contacted by The Daily Telegraph.
“I did say that.
“We got the grading wrong in terms of the force and when we looked at other similar tackles.
“We didn’t factor the swinging nature, a semi-closed fist. It was definitely the wrong charge and grading. I’m not here to tell you we get everything right.”
Buettner heads the match review panel that includes former players Michael Hodgson, Brad Clyde, Bronson Harrision and Ben Ross.
While admitting the panel erred in the Taupau case, Buettner defended the panel’s decision not to act on two big incidents from last weekend.
Firstly Souths forward Nathan Brown attempting to stomp on the groin of Titans’ bench forward Agnatius Paasi and Marika Koroibete’s shoulder charge on Panthers winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak.
On the groin stomp, Buettner said: “I know it looked bad but we’ve got to base our charges on the judiciary code. We looked at dangerous contact and if there was an unacceptable risk of injury to the player.
“He got him in the upper thigh, not the groin. If he’d got him in the groin he would have been charged. We didn’t see there was enough force in it.
“If we had a charge for a grade one dumb act, dog act or shit act, it would have ticked all the boxes but we’ve got to apply what sits in the judiciary code.”
Match review chairman Michael Buettner had admitted the committee has made mistakes.
It was a similar theme of denial with the shoulder charge.
“Koroibete is an aggressive player who was trying to save a try,” Buettner said, “For that he should be applauded.
“The upper arm needs to be tucked into the side if it’s to be determined a shoulder charge and in this case it wasn’t.”
The Daily Telegraph understands Buettner and his panel are under huge pressure from the clubs and NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg to lift their game.
It will be one of the first tasks of recently appointed Head of Football Brian Canavan to get more consistency and balance with the match review panel and the judiciary.
Ennis on Wighton would be fun in here
You just know the smart arse players are going to do that
And Gal, Fifita, Tilse, Irwin and anyone else named in this thread over the past couple of days.
Lol ur sour grapes about not getting to play us with 2 of our spine missing is lol. Especially when the nrl bent over to ensure ur mobs whole spine is intact.
