Crichton elbows player in the face - Roosters penalty?

[some11]

Can someone explain this to me please?

 

[Vic Mackey]

Can someone explain this to me please?

I can only assume the referee thought he was still a Souths player

 

[Slackboy72]

Crichton = Grub

 

[Generalzod]

Really how could the refs not see that?

 

[Generalzod]

I can only assume the referee thought he was still a Souths player

Oh thought Crichton was a Storm player lol

 

[shear_joy9]

equally as bad was josh morris pretending to jump from a burning building and being awarded a penalty.

it is absolutely pathetic that when a play doesn't work for the roosters or storm the ref's automatic mindset is that the opposition must have done some foul play.

 

[blue bags]

piggy back

 

[Chook Norris]

equally as bad was josh morris pretending to jump from a burning building and being awarded a penalty.

it is absolutely pathetic that when a play doesn't work for the roosters or storm the ref's automatic mindset is that the opposition must have done some foul play.

Do you actually have any proof of this claim or is this just a suspicion. With that hypothesis the roosters or storm would get a penalty for every one of their loose carries.

That hypothesis then immediately fails upon the first test.

Fans of weaker/less successful teams love to claim that referees constantly favor top teams when in reality this can mostly be explained by a cognitive bias, and can be automatically disproven when looking at actual penalties for and against.

 

[mave]

I thought Cordner getting penalised for tackling too hard was even more ridiculous, but as someone said in the game day thread, it felt like a true square-up after the refs stuffed up the Papali/ Chrichton thing.

Be nice if the refs got stuff right, instead of trying to right the previous wrongs.

 

[Nevan_]

I can’t wait for the day that the Roosters finally get exposed. They would have folded long ago if it weren’t for their dodgy benefactors - No fans, no juniors and located in an already saturated market. The sooner Politis dies/goes to gaol, the better for the game.

 

[Sphagnum]

It’s a new rule nobody was told about called called ‘bunker lotto’

 

[typicalfan]

Almost as good as a penalty for being your own escort.

 

[no name]

The worst thing was it came only seconds after the bunker intervened to penalise George Williams for his ‘reportable’ tackle on a falling player. (JMoz I think)
The elbow to the face was far more deliberate yet the bunker didn’t say anything and let Papalii cop a penalty for getting a clear elbow to the face.

 

[no name]

I thought Cordner getting penalised for tackling too hard was even more ridiculous, but as someone said in the game day thread, it felt like a true square-up after the refs stuffed up the Papali/ Chrichton thing.

Be nice if the refs got stuff right, instead of trying to right the previous wrongs.

That was a shit penalty also.
Sutton and co made some pretty bad calls last night.

 

[gerg]

I thought Cordner getting penalised for tackling too hard was even more ridiculous, but as someone said in the game day thread, it felt like a true square-up after the refs stuffed up the Papali/ Chrichton thing.

Be nice if the refs got stuff right, instead of trying to right the previous wrongs.

Are you referring to the tackle where Cordner lifted above the horizontal, identical to the Canberra player being penalised for the same thing in the first half?

 

[Canard]

I thought Cordner getting penalised for tackling too hard was even more ridiculous, but as someone said in the game day thread, it felt like a true square-up after the refs stuffed up the Papali/ Chrichton thing.

Be nice if the refs got stuff right, instead of trying to right the previous wrongs.

That's was the exact same ruling, for the exact same tackle that Wighton was penalised for in the first half.

Funny, how you missed that.

 

[Canard]

What is getting missed here, is the Roosters tactic of trying to give away penalties everytime the Raiders were in the red zone. Wrestling, being way offside and slowing down the play the ball.

Roosters players were openly calling for the referee to penalise them.

Its pure bastardry. The set restart, has helped, but refs are just to reluctant to penslise more then once a game in this situation. It needs repeated sin binnings.

 

[skeepe]

That's was the exact same ruling, for the exact same tackle that Wighton was penalised for in the first half.

Funny, how you missed that.

Looking at it objectively, I thought the Wighton tackle deserved a penalty and the Cordner one didn’t.

They’re actually very different tackled. Wighton got the hand between the legs of a player who was already held by two others and lifted a little. Cordner’s was just good technique and shouldn’t have been penalised.

Just my opinion.

 

[mave]

Sutton and co made some pretty bad calls last night.

I think that is something we could all agree with.

 

[Canard]

Looking at it objectively, I thought the Wighton tackle deserved a penalty and the Cordner one didn’t.

They’re actually very different tackled. Wighton got the hand between the legs of a player who was already held by two others and lifted a little. Cordner’s was just good technique and shouldn’t have been penalised.

Just my opinion.

Both didn't deserve a penalty in my opinion.

But they pale into insignificane when compared to the Rapana escort ruling or the Roosters cynical negative tactics.