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2022 R19 Sun - North Qld 27-26 Wests Tigers @ QLD Country Bank

Round 19: North Qld v Wests Tigers

  • North Queensland Cowboys

    Votes: 6 100.0%
  • Wests Tigers

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Draw after Golden Point

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .
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So an NRL puppet had said the challenge was legit as the ref blew his whistle on the play, but not the whistle for full time.
OK merkins, so why did he blow the whistle on the play but not full time? To check in with the bunker with 0 seconds on the clock?
I don't recall him calling time off either, so did the game end or not?
This whole thing is comical.
That was the thing I was puzzled about.
What was the basis of the challenge? Teams can’t challenge a ‘non-call’.
The whistle needs to go for them to challenge.
The only reason why the whistle went was because time was up. There was no call for the Cowboys to challenge.
 

Exsilium

Coach
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There is no proximity requirement to obstruction though is there?

No, there isn’t.

I was just reflecting on how often the bunker rules on whether a player would have influenced the play but in the case of an escort, you can be nowhere near the play and earn the penalty.
 

Reflector

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That was the worst reffing I’ve seen in any sport ever.

I genuinely believe there needs to be a full investigation into Klein’s finances. There is too much money being gambled on this sport for this to just keep getting chalked up to poor decision making
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Munted

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That was the thing I was puzzled about.
What was the basis of the challenge? Teams can’t challenge a ‘non-call’.
The whistle needs to go for them to challenge.
The only reason why the whistle went was because time was up. There was no call for the Cowboys to challenge.
I just watched it again, the ref doesn't blow a whistle until after asking Chad "what do you want to challenge?".
Also Feldt braces for the impact and tucks his right arm and shoulder up ever so slightly, he's not going hard out for the ball. His goal was to sell the fall.
He knew what he was doing, f**k the merkin.
Id be dirty on my homebody Jarome for doing the same thing and the internet would be melting down.
 
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Generalzod

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I think the point you are missing is.. if the bunker seen an indiscretion then tell the ref to call a penalty..but there was no penalty. , but its obvious the bunker has intervened in some fashion telling the ref something.. what? Seemed to me as though Clown was pushing him to ask the Cowboys to challenge.
The point is by the time the cowboys restarted the game, the game was all over I didn’t realised it took a life time for 1 second to end.
 
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Stinkfinger

Juniors
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I think the point you are missing is.. if the bunker seen an indiscretion then tell the ref to call a penalty..but there was no penalty. , but its obvious the bunker has intervened in some fashion telling the ref something.. what? Seemed to me as though Clown was pushing him to ask the Cowboys to challenge.
That's the impression I have too.
 

simmo05

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I think the point you are missing is.. if the bunker seen an indiscretion then tell the ref to call a penalty..but there was no penalty. , but its obvious the bunker has intervened in some fashion telling the ref something.. what? Seemed to me as though Clown was pushing him to ask the Cowboys to challenge.
Was it drinkwater saying he looked at the touchy, and the touchy agreed with him that he should challenge? If not him, someone in the team getting advice from the nrl officials. What a disgrace for an alleged professional competition
 

Canard

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Was it drinkwater saying he looked at the touchy, and the touchy agreed with him that he should challenge? If not him, someone in the team getting advice from the nrl officials. What a disgrace for an alleged professional competition

Drinkwater came off the field with 20mins to go.

Not sure where you got that info from, but it's not correct.
 

simmo05

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Drinkwater came off the field with 20mins to go.

Not sure where you got that info from, but it's not correct.
Townsend revealed that he had the support of the touch judge when he requested to challenge.

“I saw the escort so went over to the ref straight away. I think the touchie was agreeing, he looked over and gave the ref a nod so he saw the same thing as I saw,” he said.
 

glockers

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Ignore the bullfrog about the game not being over and concentrate in what is wrong with the second part of this by the NRL spokesperson.

“Although the referee had blown his whistle to stop the game after the last tackle was completed as time had expired, he had not yet called full-time. The whole concept of the captain’s challenge is to make sure any decision by the referee that stops the game can be reviewed. To not do so would effectively deny a team the right to have an officiating error corrected on the last play of a game just because time had expired."

What referee decision was that?

They will retrofit that the referee made a decision here as the excuse on why it should be challenged, but there was no decision.
 

simmo05

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Ignore the bullfrog about the game not being over and concentrate in what is wrong with the second part of this by the NRL spokesperson.

“Although the referee had blown his whistle to stop the game after the last tackle was completed as time had expired, he had not yet called full-time. The whole concept of the captain’s challenge is to make sure any decision by the referee that stops the game can be reviewed. To not do so would effectively deny a team the right to have an officiating error corrected on the last play of a game just because time had expired."

What referee decision was that?

They will retrofit that the referee made a decision here as the excuse on why it should be challenged, but there was no decision.
I didn't think there was a whistle at all
 

blaza88z

Coach
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Isn't it true that an outsider winning isn't a big deal to bookies as they set the market accordingly?

I know f**k all about betting, by the way.

Bookies gain a lot more when favourites go under.

I am sure some Tigers fan out there probably had a pineapple on them to win and was set to win a handsome sum but that's peanuts to most bookies.
 

blaza88z

Coach
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I share the same view as the majority, it leaves a rotten taste in the mouth of any fan that isn't a Cowboys fan and even then, I am sure there are some Cowboys fans who raised an eyebrow.

Just the way it all played out, first the way they even got to challenge in the first place, then the howler once they did challenge, then there's the clock drama. It could all very well be a sequence of f**k ups but when you got the team ranked 16th taking on the team coming 2nd and it ends like that?
 
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