Deliberate penalty to force a captains challenge on previous play

[some11]

Titans have come up with a new tactic, what are your thoughts?

 

[forby]

I thought it was to challenge the decision that caused the stoppage.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

The media will be all over this during the week

 

[forby]

Deliberate penalties = sin bin!

 

[JokerEel]

Didn't the NRL come out last Monday and say that they can only challenge the refs call on what stopped the play??

 

[mozza91]

If the referee made the right decision in the first place it wouldn’t be an issue.

 

[t-ba]

It's not new, I've seen Melbourne and a few other just do it just more subtly.

Frankly I think the risk/reward of getting sinbinned for a professional foul if the challenge is unsuccessful is a decent trade-off.

 

[JokerEel]

NRL kingpin Graham Annesley addresses sneaky Captain’s Challenge loophole

NRL boss’s sin-bin warning to shut down sneaky loophole

www-foxsports-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org

Well apparently in tonight's game it should not have been allowed..

 

[aqua_duck]

NRL kingpin Graham Annesley addresses sneaky Captain’s Challenge loophole

NRL boss’s sin-bin warning to shut down sneaky loophole

www-foxsports-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org

Well apparently in tonight's game it should not have been allowed..

unfortunately communication and consistency isn't Annesley's strong suit

 

[soc123_au]

Souths did it last week as well.

 

[Lemon Squash]

As an Eel it was frustrating but yeh credit to the Titans if the team is that positive the call is wrong fair enough. They are taking the risk having someone binned if they get it wrong.

I was more frustrated at Herbert’s dive tbh

 

[Chimp]

NRL kingpin Graham Annesley addresses sneaky Captain’s Challenge loophole

NRL boss’s sin-bin warning to shut down sneaky loophole

www-foxsports-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org

Well apparently in tonight's game it should not have been allowed..

Absolutely - Annesley nailed it earlier in the week, unfortunately the ref in this game obviously didn’t read the memo…. The ref should have advised they could only challenge the holding down ruling, whilst also sin-binning Herbert for the professional foul.

 

[Knight76]

Titans didn't come up with this at all. The first player to do this as far as I know was Munster and as I recall the commentators saying how smart a play it was.

Anyway, I don't know if I like it or hate it. I can see both sides but I guess if they win the challenge then all good, but if not sin bin for a professional foul seems appropriate.

As long as teams know where they stand on it, and what they risk when doing that play then all good.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

I think they should just sin-bin the player anyway, even if the challenge is successful. It’s not like if the player knocked on you could go and clock him; why should it be any different for a deliberate foul?

 

[no name]

Lol at new tactic.
This was done successfully by a few teams last year, as someone mentioned Munster has done it a couple of times.
I don’t love it, but some of the things that the refs miss are so obvious to everyone except them so it forces team’s hand.
I don’t think the NRL will do anything about it because it gives referees another ‘out’ for making mistakes, like when they go to the bunker when it’s clearly not a try but they want to see what the restart should be.

 

[Canard]

Typical League fans, media and NRL, no- one gives a f**k until it happens to one of the big Sydney Clubs.

f**king Gutho did the same thing last year against the Cowboys and no- one said boo.

 

[Fangs]

Should be an automatic sin bin before the challenge takes place.

Melbourne invented it btw.

 

[Perth Red]

We changed the fabric of the game to make it faster then brought in the opportunity for players to stop the game for 3 minutes! Capts challenge sucks and should be binned.

 

[soc123_au]

We changed the fabric of the game to make it faster then brought in the opportunity for players to stop the game for 3 minutes! Capts challenge sucks and should be binned.

Captains challenge is fine. They just need to stick to the rules surrounding it's use. The only change is that the box should only consider what is being challenged. If someone gets their head taken off in backplay, bad luck, the mrc can deal with that later.

 

[seanoff]

Nope. You challenge on the spot or not at all.

they don’t think about this enough. When you make up a new rule. Ask everyone you can to break it.