Well said. Robert Finch is supposed to be the man responsible for the referee's performance, surely he has to show a bit of accountability and fall on his sword. Last night was an absolute disgrace, but the things that frustrate us all are when you see Shayne Hayne referee Origin 2, blow no penalties until 51 minutes despite at least one very obvious head high tackle, and the next game have 5 penalties before 10 minutes are up with no conceivable change in intent or major change in penalty offences being impinged. It's like one week he's Steve Clarke, the next week Bill Harrigan, you never know what you're going to get, he IS the ultimate box of chocolates. Ultimately, you can understand a bad error from a referee, but when the video ref has a chance to use common sense they don't? Give me a break. 5 year olds know how to apply common sense, the average video referee, particularly Cooley, West and Nash don't. Those three men should not be video referees, they have culpably cost teams time and time again with no reprimand and in fact on several occasions blindly full support from their manager.
I just want a bit of consistency, unfortunately, it's becoming very apparent that Bill Harrigan kept that ship from sinking too badly, and now that he's gone it's the ultimate Titanic experience. Robert Finch has to go, simple as that, and he should be replaced by Harrigan. At least when Harrigan goes on NRL on Fox he can visually display such things as downward pressure and make sense, everytime I have seen Robert Finch on there he talks about the "processes" "lets protect the referees from media scrutiny and criticism" rather than how do we fix it, what rules are wrong, and more importantly, why are they wrong. And I think the latter is important, but I think he genuinely doesn't have a good enough understanding of it all.
Mark my words, Steve Nash will be in the box next weekend, and he will get a full unreserved defence from Robert Finch in the media should the media take the ball and quiz him on it.