It's the biggest load of bollocks in the NRL. Golden point is a bigger farce than the judiciary, video refs and referees combined. In 25 rounds of regular round robin football, a draw is a draw. Then in finals football, it should be 10 minutes each way unlimited. IE if one team scores, the other team has a chance to fight back. I'm dead set sick and tired of watching an after hours drop goal shoot out.
Your whole season can be ditched off the back of a chronically bad refereeing decision, moreso than even in 80 minutes of regular football. Take the Warriors-Roosters game, did anyone think either team deserved to lose? Hell no. In extra time, the touch judge missed a blatant strip for a penalty shot, and Shayne Hayne missed two rucks in a row dead in front of the Chooks sticks where they were offside. But TBPH, the right result stood. The draw. A couple of years ago, the Raiders got through to the finals on golden point, we missed out as a result. Teams are primed to play 80 minutes of footy, that's hard enough slog as it is. The average fan should be farkin grateful with that. As that season with the Raiders showed, it is nothing more than an artificial points distributor. It's an anamoly on the final points standing. And it's a downright travesty to put the game in a clutch situation where our referees are simply not up to that pressure. At least over 80 minutes they can even out (sometimes) the rough calls, in golden point all it takes is one and that's it, your season is ruined.
In summing up, it's the biggest load of sh!t ever implemented in rugby league. It's a crock, and quite frankly I'm sick to death of it.
