Listening to video ref

[newman]

Eez okay Eez okay. Slow it down. Slow it down. Eez over the dead ball line! That's no tri. Twenny Restart.​

 

[reanimate]

Eez okay Eez okay. Slow it down. Slow it down. Eez over the dead ball line! That's no tri. Twenny Restart.​

:lol:

I love the French video ref, he's great.

 

[nrlnrl]

:lol:

I love the French video ref, he's great.

he was the one who pressed the wrong button?... twice

 

[reanimate]

he was the one who pressed the wrong button?... twice

He was too busy having an awesome accent to push the right button.

 

[newman]

He was too busy having an awesome accent to push the right button.

This is absolutely correct.

 

[no name]

Yeah thought it was really good also.

Best thing about it in the NRL is that the morons like Rabs would have to stfu and listen instead of filling up the time with more whinging...

And not make up hypothetical theories that the VR had when making the decision.

There will still be incorrect calls, and I would prefer no VR, but this way you can hear why they ruled the way they did.
It would have been good to hear Harrigan explain the Gasnier howler from a few years back.

 

[Crippler]

also is there any reason in 2013 that they cant invest in some super frame rate cameras for the ingoals . Seeing a blurred 30fps video frame by frame cant help the video ref to make the right call.

 

[Canard]

also is there any reason in 2013 that they cant invest in some super frame rate cameras for the ingoals . Seeing a blurred 30fps video frame by frame cant help the video ref to make the right call.

Apparently is fugging expensive like $3k per second or something ridiculous

 

[Hindyscrack]

Best thing about talking through their decisions is that the time spent reviewing seems shorter as a viewer, that and you know exactly what they are looking for.

Bring it in to the NRL

 

[Jankuloski]

Talking is cool, but they use them way too much and they take forever to decide!

 

[Nerd]

Yep hearing the video ref would be much better than listening to Rabs waffle on.

 

[Masoe_eats_babies]

The flipside is it takes away the suspense.

Personally I don't like it. I think in most cases it comes across as completely amateurish. Felt that way when English rugby started with it, will feel that way if the NRL adopts it.

 

[Evil_Mush]

I love the "jog it on... jog it on..." guy, they need him in the NRL!

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm a big fan of the concept. It's good to hear their logic as they work it out.

 

[Pierced Soul]

The flipside is it takes away the suspense.

Personally I don't like it. I think in most cases it comes across as completely amateurish. Felt that way when English rugby started with it, will feel that way if the NRL adopts it.

hows it come across as amateurish? rather than the nrl ones where i'm certain they're playing with their phones whilst the replays are on before randomly pushing a button, you can actually see the process they're using to look at and make their decisions.

in the nrl they take 5 minutes and you have no f**king idea what they're supposedly looking at before they come back with a decision that baffles everyone

 

[Card Shark]

He was too busy having an awesome accent to push the right button.

John Girard from Talledega Nights ?

 

[TheDalek079]

I enjoy it too. I think we should get the ref to narrate the entire match instead of having to listening to Rabs or Hadley

 

[bileduct]

This needs to be adopted in the NRL. It is so much better listening to the video ref and actually understanding what he is doing instead of hearing clown shoe commentators whining "why is he looking at this?" the whole time.

Anything that shuts up the Channel 9 f**kwits for any length of time is a bonus.

 

[Quidgybo]

The interesting thing we hear when listening to the video ref is that often the excessive number of replays is because the director isn't giving the video ref the angle he wants. The ref will ask for the corner angle and instead get a sideline angle and so the director lets the sideline angle play out and then gives the corner. The video ref will then ask to see that same angle at full speed but the director has already started playing the other corner and so we all wait again until that has finished before the ref gets the replay he wants. Two replays suddenly becomes four and the video ref sounds as frustrated as the rest of us while waiting.

And until now the poor video ref has got lambasted for that by the Phil Goulds of the world.

Leigh.

 

[innsaneink]

Gone are the days when the crowd cheered when a player crossed the line and grounds the ball, or the stumps are broken.

We wait...and wait....and wait....then a TV screen tells us when to get excited.

By then its gone