Bloody refs!

[danielb]

Here's a place to b*tch about refs and thier performances, rules, best and worst moments.

sorry guys this is probably in the wrong place but oh well who gives a sh*t im a junior!

 

[perverse]

i think they've significantly improved this year under Hollywood.

... and yep, i wouldn't say this is a social thread. lol.

 

[danielb]

I though last nights try for manly was absolutely bull, clearly robertson knocked the ball on....oh well manly got there feathers plucked anyway.

 

[Johns Magic]

Nah I thought it was legit.

Chest/waist is not a knock-on.

 

[danielb]

Nah I thought it was legit.

Chest/waist is not a knock-on.

dont you think his hand brushed it after that tho when he was trying to get downward pressure? good to see the ref didnt give a penalty till the 67th minute.....well at least in favour of manly! that means souths were disciplined until then, Amazing effort by the bunnies.

 

[Johns Magic]

I haven't watched the replay more than two or three times but the more I watched it the more I was convinced it was a try.

He may have brushed a hand on it, I don't wanna say he didn't without being sure.

That first Souths try, Morgan was definitely off-side in my opinion.

 

[jonno_knights]

I would have liked another look at Souths first try. It seemed like their centre/winger was offside when Sandow kicked it. Sandow then ran in front of him though, (not 100% sure on the ruling on kickers running the chasers onside these days though)

 

[jonno_knights]

Theres it is there, but as I said Sandow runs Morgan on straight away, but morgan beats Sandow to the ball.

 

[RHCP]

At first I thought it was a knock-on, but the side on replay showed it didn't touch his hand and even if it did, didn't propel the ball forward. Messy, but legal.

 

[RABK]

My biggest issue with refs has and forever will be consistency.

I can't blame a ref if he didn't see the smallest of knock ons in a 4 man tackle from 10 metres away or if he misses a guy 10cm offside from a kick. Those happen to all sides and it seems to balance itself out.

But what sh*ts is me is the consistency in ruling.

One week a shoulder charge that hits the head is a penalty, the next week it's legal.

One game where a player offside on a kick gets within 10 metres of a try and it's allowed and another game 2 hours later and the same scenario gets called a no try, penalty.

A try is allowed like the one that young Hopoate scored against us where Williams tackled our players - sometime this season that same scenario will be called up for been illegal and be awarded a no try, penalty.

I don't think it's that hard to have a rule book to follow for all scenarios. It's couch potato science.