Penalty Blitz

[Marshall_magic]

Every game since that Sharks Melb game has been enjoyable to be fair

Looks like nobody apart from about 5 people in this thread thought the 34 penalties was a good idea lol

So refs should have a quota on penalties? It's their job to give penalties where they see them, whether it's 5, 10, 50, 10000 in a game is irrelevant. If it's too many then that's on the players and/or the coaches.

Then again the last 5-10 years the coaches have gotten away with pinning all their failures on the referees, so to expect them to take accountability for it now is probably a bridge too far.

 

[Clifferd]

So refs should have a quota on penalties? It's their job to give penalties where they see them, whether it's 5, 10, 50, 10000 in a game is irrelevant. If it's too many then that's on the players and/or the coaches.

Then again the last 5-10 years the coaches have gotten away with pinning all their failures on the referees, so to expect them to take accountability for it now is probably a bridge too far.

No quota, but it’s quite obvious the refs have given up on this so called “crackdown” from what I’ve seen.

 

[Noname36]

They didn’t use the whistle too much in the Knights/Donkeys game last night either. Wonder what’s been said.

 

[Spot On]

Only blight on the Newy v Brissy game was the touchies failure to call Milford's forward passes.

Ruck was great, onside looked fine on the screen.

Happy for them to blow the pea out if it's not.

 

[Perth Red]

Only blight on the Newy v Brissy game was the touchies failure to call Milford's forward passes.

Ruck was great, onside looked fine on the screen.

Happy for them to blow the pea out if it's not.

Watching it now. First set broncos have on knights 10m line after the long break, first tackle 3 knights players clearly in front of try line, no offside blown. That’s in first few minutes, I’m sure there’ll be dozens more offsides not called.

 

[Spot On]

Watching it now. First set broncos have on knights 10m line after the long break, first tackle 3 knights players clearly in front of try line, no offside blown. That’s in first few minutes, I’m sure there’ll be dozens more offsides not called.

Write them all down and send an email through to Toddy to demonstrate your point. Let him know you don't believe that Gus, Joey and Ch 9 should run the refs.

 

[T-Boon]

One thing to take out of the penalty blitz and the backdown due to media/coach pressure is that when the home crowd boos for the opposition being offside in future we should interpret it as the crowd booing the media (Joey, Gus etc) and the coaches rather than the refs out on the field who wanted to clean it up but are not allowed to.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Well we had two players in the sin bin in the Panthers v Eels match for repeated infringements, so itr is not over at all. Looks like some teams have not started to adjust.

 

[TheFrog]

Well we had two players in the sin bin in the Panthers v Eels match for repeated infringements, so itr is not over at all. Looks like some teams have not started to adjust.

Actually both were sent for being offside from a quick tap. Bujt there were 23 penalties blown in the game so I'll agree its not over. There could have been a lot more too.

 

[TheFrog]

They didn’t use the whistle too much in the Knights/Donkeys game last night either. Wonder what’s been said.

I'll take a stab at it. "Don't penalise the Broncos". 4 last week and 5 this week.

 

[Spot On]

No quota, but it’s quite obvious the refs have given up on this so called “crackdown” from what I’ve seen.

'Crackdown' hey. Seems as though you'r still clutching Cliffy.

 

[Clifferd]

'Crackdown' hey. Seems as though you'r still clutching Cliffy.

The only thing im clutching at is the lack of chocolate mud cake receipes in this thread

 

[ACTPanthers]

The only thing im clutching at is the lack of chocolate mud cake receipes in this thread

You're welcome

INGREDIENTS

• 200g dark chocolate, chopped
• 250g unsalted butter, chopped
• 1 tbs instant coffee
• 100ml milk
• 12/3 cups (250g) self-raising flour
• 40g cocoa powder
• 250g caster sugar
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 150ml sour cream

Ganache

• 150g milk chocolate, chopped
• 150g dark chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup (125ml) thickened cream
• 50g unsalted butter

METHOD

• 1
  Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease a deep 23cm springform cake pan and line with baking paper.
  
  
• 2
  Place the chocolate, butter, coffee and milk in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water) and stir until smooth and melted. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool completely.
  
  
• 3
  Sift flour and cocoa powder into a bowl, then add sugar. Fold into the chocolate mixture with eggs, vanilla extract and sour cream.
  
  
• 4
  Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake in the oven for 60-70 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out with some moist crumbs sticking to it but no raw cake batter. Set aside to cool completely in the pan.
  
  
• 5
  For the ganache, place all ingredients in a small heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water) and stir until smooth and melted. Cool slightly.
  
  
• 6
  Remove the cooled cake from the pan and spread with the ganache, then serve.