Matt Cecchin's performance tonight

[Iafeta]

In fairness to Stephen Kearney he is always reserved in terms of talking about refereeing calls in the press conferences but it was fairly clear he thought it was a bollocks call and that Chicken Legs was riding Melbourne home. Appalling call. But the one that baffles me is the penalty when Munster was three metres out. The only thing I can come up with was we tackled with too much intent. Old mate is tackled second tackle and they are in a world of trouble, Munster puts his best pain face and glares at Chicken Legs, four seconds later he blows a penalty with no explanation.

 

[Iafeta]

Melbourne were also so slow in the ruck particularly that merkin accountant slash assistant ref that I thought charges should be laid for sexual perversion.

And they need to look at the one on one strip rule. You are now being penalised for breaking tackles. Bellamy has worked out that if you get three in the tackle, one wraps up the ball, the other two peel away, and old mate who was tackling around the ball now has a free for all to strip it.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Melbourne were also so slow in the ruck particularly that merkin accountant slash assistant ref that I thought charges should be laid for sexual perversion.

And they need to look at the one on one strip rule. You are now being penalised for breaking tackles. Bellamy has worked out that if you get three in the tackle, one wraps up the ball, the other two peel away, and old mate who was tackling around the ball now has a free for all to strip it.

You could tell it had been practiced at training. Also one of the scrums whoever was at lock put his foot on the ball to stop it for a few seconds to make sure the defence was offside when it came out. Going above and beyond to twist and wrestle any rule they can

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Also with checcin, already been stated that it's a preconceived idea or subconscious decisions that lead to the favouritism as opposed to what some people thinking they sit down often with some NRL big wig in a secret room at HQ and go over who needs to win and what needs to happen. Only reason i don't think this happens is that to do it outright intentionally just involves a level of competency and organisation that is well beyond what anyone running the league and officiating the games is capable of.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

12th for penalties received over the past decade and you f**kwits turned "penalty broncos" into a meme.

Dribblers.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

#penaltybrisbane

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Let's not all act f**king surprised about it.

 

[MilkShark]

The storms are the Holden redbull team of rugby league

 

[beave]

You could tell it had been practiced at training. Also one of the scrums whoever was at lock put his foot on the ball to stop it for a few seconds to make sure the defence was offside when it came out. Going above and beyond to twist and wrestle any rule they can

see, that’s the thing, it’s not offside. As soon as the ball is at the locks feet, the defence is allowed to move forward.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

see, that’s the thing, it’s not offside. As soon as the ball is at the locks feet, the defence is allowed to move forward.

Yeah but if anything doesn't go the attacking teams way they will automatically blow something because of how rubbish scrums are now. Cam smith could boot it forward through the warriors locks legs on purpose and because they is no possible way in the refs mind that any other result could happen from scrum he would blow his whistle to feed it again

 

[Smack]

ref favoritism, introducing wrestling moves, salary cap rorting, billy slater, the cowbell, first female ex tennis player turned coach, shit afl city& state

what is there to like about these merkins

 

[Rhino_NQ]

ref favoritism, introducing wrestling moves, salary cap rorting, billy slater, the cowbell, first female ex tennis player turned coach, shit afl city& state

what is there to like about these merkins

hard not to like dallas johnson, apart from that..........

 

[Angry_eel]

How does it help the NRL(or cechin) getting the Storm a win. Come midway point of the competition, the fans of other clubs will start switching off knowing that no one except Roosters and Storm have a chance in the finals.

 

[Front-Rower]

It ranked right up there with some of the “great” refereeing moments of eras gone by

 

[King hit]

ref favoritism, introducing wrestling moves, salary cap rorting, billy slater, the cowbell, first female ex tennis player turned coach, shit afl city& state

what is there to like about these merkins

The plane or highway home

hard not to like dallas johnson, apart from that..........

I like Addo-Carr a lot he is a joy in full flight. Robbie Kearns and Scott Hill were Storm players I was very fond of when I first starting watching league.

 

[Alan Johnson]

The Storm got mad handouts in the Roosters game last week as well. Starting with the non-call on a 20 metre forward pass that lead to a try.

 

[Timmah]

You would be 100% correct. Rnd 7 and our first win of the penalty count.

We've received the 2nd fewest penalties this year and copped a 10-5 pineappling against the Storm last week. That's the sort of massive leg up the Storm have now received two weeks in a row, and receive on a consistent basis at home.

We got a couple of good calls today but for the love of God let's please not misconstrue that as "the Roosters get leg ups on par with the Storm".

That'd be one of the great rewritings of history when we consistently receive the fewest penalties in the NRL...

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Why yes! We're clearly the referee darlings on par with the Storm because 'Tedesco made a line break via a shepherd so let's ignore 10 years of history'.

Anyway this should be about the Storm. I can scarcely imagine how disheartened Warriors fans must be feeling after that robbery. Regarding the penalty at the end, the refs were clearly hunting for it. Clear as day.

They'd given the Storm 4 or so incredibly soft penalties in the final 20 minutes when the whistle is usually put away. Contrast that to the Roosters-Dragons game where there was only 1 penalty in the final 30 minutes - for a kick off that didn't go the 10. That's how tight games are usually refereed.

But no, not Melbourne. The Munster penalty where he was tackled hard and looked at the ref for 3-4 seconds before playing the ball was incredulous.

It was at that point you knew the refs were going to get Melbourne home.

This is an incredible rant but I don't think penalty counts alone tell the story.

Refereeing issues are as much about penalties that aren't given, or the location of penalties given, or the time they're given.

You can lose the penalty count 7-1 but if the 7 you concede are coming away from the opposition line and don't deliver a repeat set... and the 1 you get is a penalty goal to win the game on the final siren, then 7-1 doesn't tell the story, does it?

And even then, good teams, as the Roosters have shown, can overcome a lopsided penalty count apparently, so why is it even an issue? Well, refer to the above.

 

[Valheru]

This is an incredible rant but I don't think penalty counts alone tell the story.

Refereeing issues are as much about penalties that aren't given, or the location of penalties given, or the time they're given.

You can lose the penalty count 7-1 but if the 7 you concede are coming away from the opposition line and don't deliver a repeat set... and the 1 you get is a penalty goal to win the game on the final siren, then 7-1 doesn't tell the story, does it?

And even then, good teams, as the Roosters have shown, can overcome a lopsided penalty count apparently, so why is it even an issue? Well, refer to the above.

You make some sense here but penalty differential stat over 10 years is quite the outlier.

 

[Perth Red]

Home ground advantage, good call lol.

 

[Tiger5150]

How does it help the NRL(or cechin) getting the Storm a win. Come midway point of the competition, the fans of other clubs will start switching off knowing that no one except Roosters and Storm have a chance in the finals.

Second most populous state & capital city in Australia = TV Rights = $$$$$