Furious Warriors sponsor launches attack

[Captain Apollo]

Referees’ union weighs up legal action against Warriors’ sponsor

NRL referees have reacted angrily to comments posted on social media by the chief executive of One NZ, Jason Paris, accusing officials of bias against the Warriors.

www.smh.com.au

 

[flippikat]

Getting late to this discussion, I actually love it that the CEO of a club’s major sponsor is passionate enough about the club his organisation sponsors to publicly air his displeasure and grievances.

It is demonstrates the true strength of the long term One NZ/Vodafone partnership with the Warriors and I am sure will no doubt bring the discussion to the fore NRL HQ, whilst also demonstrating to a passionate fan base that their sponsor is just as passionate as they are.

Any suggestions of NRL repercussions against him or the sponsor are frankly laughable.

I wonder if many other sponsor CEOs would be willing to go in to bay like that.

It actually works well for the club itself - because the coach, players and staff can politely refuse comment on those calls, and leave it to their sponsor to be the attack dog.

Just look at how Webby talks about "what we can control". He wade deeply into this because he doesn't want to AND doesn't have to either.

Meanwhile the CEO of the major sponsor adds to the media whip-up over the unfairness of it all.

Genius.

 

[Maximus]

Referees’ union weighs up legal action against Warriors’ sponsor

NRL referees have reacted angrily to comments posted on social media by the chief executive of One NZ, Jason Paris, accusing officials of bias against the Warriors.

www.smh.com.au

“Any sort of mention of the word bias, be it conscious or unconscious, is just unacceptable. It hurts our game at every level.

f**k off Cecchin. The standard of refereeing and consistently claiming in public that they are doing nothing wrong, does far more to hurt the game than someone calling it out.

 

[Vibing]

the 6 again rule stinks to high heaven, at least with penalties there will be some scrutiny. I really hate the 6 again rule and its actually made me lose some interest in the sport... .

Its the single biggest factor to improving the overall spectacle
by removing the ability of teams slowing down rucks & mucking around preferring to wear a penalty because it becomes a set restart & easier to defend.

I agree at times I struggle to see where a breach has occurred to warrant one & Im sure coaches watch the tape closely to see what they were for & if the refs were consistent with them ,
its just we don't get that insight.

But they have made the game the improved product it is , & record crowds & TV ratings prove it.

 

[Meth]

Referees’ union weighs up legal action against Warriors’ sponsor

NRL referees have reacted angrily to comments posted on social media by the chief executive of One NZ, Jason Paris, accusing officials of bias against the Warriors.

www.smh.com.au

lol go for it.

 

[Vibing]

Roosters gave away four 6 agains (three in one set) on their line this weekend. It has hardly stopped their cynical play!

it had an effect tho dummy ... they were gassed & they lost

 

[Chins get the wins]

Couple of examples of this from recent Panthers games.

Against the Tigers between the 2nd minute when Wakeham scored, and the 29th min when Panthers took the lead, Tigers conceded 6 penalties vs 1 received. After Panthers took the lead, Tigers were then perfect for nearly 20 mins before they gave away a set restart. After re-taking the lead, they conceded a further 2 penalties. So for the 20 minutes the Tigers were behind, they conceded a total of 1 set restart and 0 penalties, vs 8 penalties while in front or level.

Against the Knights, at half time the Knights were winning 14-6 with both team conceding 4 penalties and 2 set restarts. From the start of the 2nd half to the 58th minute when the Panthers drew level, Knights conceded 5 penalties and received 1 set restart. After the 58th minute once scores were level, Knights suddenly became perfectly disciplined and didn't give up a single penalty or restart.

The Melbourne vs Warriors game had the same trend. Can probably find a bunch of other games with similar.

Here's 2 more calls from Penrith games.
Nathan Cleary blatantly hit late kicking a field goal against Newcastle yet no penalty. Gave the Knights a shot in golden point they didn't deserve.

Cody Walker 100% propels the ball forward for Latrell to score his last try. Souths don't win without that.

But none of this fits the narrative

 

[Ideas Man Stephen]

It actually works well for the club itself - because the coach, players and staff can politely refuse comment on those calls, and leave it to their sponsor to be the attack dog.

Just look at how Webby talks about "what we can control". He wade deeply into this because he doesn't want to AND doesn't have to either.

Meanwhile the CEO of the major sponsor adds to the media whip-up over the unfairness of it all.

Genius.

You said it, not me. #NotGuiltyByAssociation

 

[Nealo 12]

Warriors numb nut gets dominated in a tackle , loses the ball gets up agro grabs Cleary by the jumper then another numb nut tough guy runs a mile to get his two bobs worth collects Cleary on the cheek … looks like a stunned mullet when binned yeah you’d are robbed …Lmfao

 

[Someguy]

The latrell incident was far worse. Knee and then striking out twice in a completely unprovoked incident. NRL should investigate why this happened, Toovey was right when he call for an investigation and it is still happening now.

 

[Diesel]

It doesn’t help the situation where all refs must be based in Sydney. The last time there was a Kiwi ref would’ve been around SL time and he was told if he wanted to continue, he had to move to Sydney

 

[Nealo 12]

It doesn’t help the situation where all refs must be based in Sydney. The last time there was a Kiwi ref would’ve been around SL time and he was told if he wanted to continue, he had to move to Sydney

Yeah they need to train together and meet regularly bit hard being keeping on top of everything at 3000k’s away

 

[Nealo 12]

The latrell incident was far worse. Knee and then striking out twice in a completely unprovoked incident. NRL should investigate why this happened, Toovey was right when he call for an investigation and it is still happening now.

Yeah he’s a Koala that’s the bottom line

 

[Canard]

Referees’ union weighs up legal action against Warriors’ sponsor

NRL referees have reacted angrily to comments posted on social media by the chief executive of One NZ, Jason Paris, accusing officials of bias against the Warriors.

www.smh.com.au

Even this reaction is so over the top it's not funny.

Gould says shit about match officials every time he commentates and on Twitter, and those statements have ever even been mentioned by the Match Officials.

It's a clear demonstration of bias.

 

[TheDMC]

“Any sort of mention of the word bias, be it conscious or unconscious, is just unacceptable. It hurts our game at every level.

f**k off Cecchin. The standard of refereeing and consistently claiming in public that they are doing nothing wrong, does far more to hurt the game than someone calling it out.

Unconscious bias is a basic human condition, apparent everyday in all of us, and the subject of a truckload of research. Yet Annsmyth says it is an unmentionable? Hmm. That's ignorance in the first degree. Is he really the right person for his job?

Perhaps he and the NRL should instead look to train the referees to recognize their unconscious biases so they can minimize how it impacts their job performance. Such training is common in many fields. The result will be better and fairer referring. And at least a 0.2% reduction in moaning by disgruntled fans.

 

[TheDMC]

Yeah they need to train together and meet regularly bit hard being keeping on top of everything at 3000k’s away

They train together and meet regularly so they can effectively flesh out a Ref wide game plan to shaft certain teams and players and identify protected species.

 

[Munky]

The refs this year are being used as a safety car.

The moment a team is pulling away it metaphorically starts to rain.

 

[mongoose]

Its the single biggest factor to improving the overall spectacle
by removing the ability of teams slowing down rucks & mucking around preferring to wear a penalty because it becomes a set restart & easier to defend.

I agree at times I struggle to see where a breach has occurred to warrant one & Im sure coaches watch the tape closely to see what they were for & if the refs were consistent with them ,
its just we don't get that insight.

But they have made the game the improved product it is , & record crowds & TV ratings prove it.

yeah I get that but I don't trust the NRL or refs enough not to think they are using it as a way to manage games...

 

[mozza91]

Here's 2 more calls from Penrith games.
Nathan Cleary blatantly hit late kicking a field goal against Newcastle yet no penalty. Gave the Knights a shot in golden point they didn't deserve.

After the Panthers scored their tries off the back of ridiculous penalties for Gagai swearing and Frizell’s hair pull. Funny I’ve seen plenty of players swear this season and that was the only one that was penalised and when Dom Young got his hair pulled against another NRL favourite Parra no penalty was awarded.

 

[Maximus]

Here's 2 more calls from Penrith games.
Nathan Cleary blatantly hit late kicking a field goal against Newcastle yet no penalty. Gave the Knights a shot in golden point they didn't deserve.

Cody Walker 100% propels the ball forward for Latrell to score his last try. Souths don't win without that.

But none of this fits the narrative

Penrith shouldn't have even been in the game to kick a field goal. Without ref intervention, you managed 6 points.