Knights v Storm spoiler

[Tom Shines]

'Professional foul' (hate that term) has obviously gone the way of the kicking duel and the up-the-jumper set play.

That was blatant cheating by the player involved.

 

[Usain Bolt]

Thought Cronk deserved 10 in the bin, protected species.

 

[Jason Maher]

Could you imagine trying to pull off the up-the-jumper play with one of these tight fitting modern polyester jerseys?

 

[hineyrulz]

Just watched the incident, can't believe he wasn't binned.

 

[Timmah]

Textbook sinbin. Disgraceful.

 

[Noname36]

Of course he wasn't binned. He plays for the Storm. If that had have been the other way around a Newcastle player would have gone to the bin for sure.

 

[simon says]

Yep....cant believe he didnt go.

 

[juanfarkall]

"it's not his go"

 

[the_flight_of_the_magpie]

How didnt Cronk get 10 mins in the bin for pulling back Boyd?

The Storm players are protected species

 

[Cerne Abbas Giant]

I thought Boyd dived like a South American soccer player,, that's what the ref saw as well.

 

[Rod]

Obvious sin bin. Cronk knew it too, it wasn't even a shove it was a proper tackle.

 

[hineyrulz]

I thought Boyd dived like a South American soccer player,, that's what the ref saw as well.

He saw that he dived but he gave Newcastle the penalty anyway?? f**k you are a spastic.

 

[otori]

The grubby storm fans in the gameday thread are amusing. The penalty count was so damn high because they were slowing down the play as much as possible. But hey, it's NRL in 2013 so sending players off for repeated infringements, let alone blatant cheating, is not the done thing.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Should have been a sin bin. No doubt Spam Smith got into the ear of the ref and convinced him to keep him on.

 

[bor]

Inconsistent reffing from incompetent morons. Guaranteed sinbin for any other team

 

[hineyrulz]

The grubby storm fans in the gameday thread are amusing. The penalty count was so damn high because they were slowing down the play as much as possible. But hey, it's NRL in 2013 so sending players off for repeated infringements, let alone blatant cheating, is not the done thing.

Pretty much this, they know that the refs refuse to stick anyone in the bin so they slow the play the ball down to a crawl. everyone will Fap over how great defensively but they are helped by how slow they allow the opposition to play the ball.

 

[El Diablo]

certain players are protected

Thurston got away with a blatant professional foul earlier this year

 

[Evenflow]

While Boyd did go down like he was shot and embellished the contact (IMO) if he had've been sent then i'd understand, in all honesty i thought it could've gone either way.

But anyway and far more importantly the Storm won after being well below their best and on the wrong side of a 10-4 penalty count. Very happy indeed with the win today, it's always hard going up there to Newcastle and get a win.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

May as well get rid of the sin bin if you're not going to use it in that situation. f**king disgrace

 

[LESStar58]

'Professional foul' (hate that term) has obviously gone the way of the kicking duel and the up-the-jumper set play.

That was blatant cheating by the player involved.

Compare that to the ball tampering allegations that are no doubt going to come out of this game will overshadow the "cheating" of a professional foul.