Penalty Blitz

[I Bleed Maroon]

You mean, a queenslander supporting the broncos coachs opinion cause it will help his team.
Yet all the players and former coaches of the NRL didnt like the way the game was played yesterday and are blaming the NRL. Guess they are just silent up there in Queensland.

I guess I will take that as a compliment.

 

[SBD82]

This thread is f**king great.

 

[Clifferd]

Wayne Bennett has come out in full support of the refs. Or does one of the oldest and most successful coaches opinion not count?

I’ve spoken to men who played decades before I was born in the 60’s and 50’s and they are all in full support of this. Most of them played at representative level in Rugby League.

Your comments come across as someone with limited knowledge of the history of the game, or any real experience playing it.

I played the game for 15 years. But yeah, I guess I’ve never played in my entire life. What makes the game so exciting is the free flowing nature of play, which is now essentially non existent because of a penalty for a player being less than 1/4 metre offside

Whether yo agree with it or not, players will never adapt to this style of play because FATIGUE plays apart in a game of rugby league. But That’s only understood if you’ve played.

 

[LineBall]

M2D2, you're seriously up shit creek with this opinion. I'm not sure which Twitter you are reading, but the ones I am are all in support. Refer to Chris Garry's tweet about Bennett if you don't believe me.

Mate, as I’ve said,

Perhaps you may want to read the Sharks V Storm game day match thread again.
No. Not my feed. On the official pages. Hell. On NRL roast the poll was 54%v46% in your favor yes.
But you havent spoken to a single former NRL/NSWRL player who has at least played City V Country. Yet you claim multiple.

You mean, a queenslander supporting the broncos coachs opinion cause it will help his team.
Yet all the players and former coaches of the NRL didnt like the way the game was played yesterday and are blaming the NRL. Guess they are just silent up there in Queensland.

The warriors and roosters thread and the manly and Canberra thread don’t appear to be complaining much about the refs ( no more than usual). Do you only read Cronulla threads?

 

[M2D2]

The warriors and roosters thread and the manly and Canberra thread don’t appear to be complaining much about the refs ( no more than usual). Do you only read Cronulla threads?

You mean the game where everything came to a point where everyone called it out?
Gee. I wonder why that game thread as well as souths v dogs would be important.
Maybe you can ask the former NRL players who have played rep football that you talked to today, a saturday on a public holiday weekend to come in here and give their opinion. Seeing as how youre not a dole bludging stoner.

 

[LineBall]

I played the game for 15 years. But yeah, I guess I’ve never played in my entire life. What makes the game so exciting is the free flowing nature of play, which is now essentially non existent because of a penalty for a player being less than 1/4 metre offside

Whether yo agree with it or not, players will never adapt to this style of play because FATIGUE plays apart in a game of rugby league. But That’s only understood if you’ve played.

I’d say it’s more non existent due to wrestling and players being offside.

Saying they’ll never adapt is crap. They’ve had to adapt from a 3 yard, to a 5 metre, to a ten metre defensive line over the history of the game. We are only 4 weeks into the year and some of you already want to throw your hands in the air and say it’s all too hard.

 

[LineBall]

You mean the game where everything came to a point where everyone called it out?
Gee. I wonder why that game thread as well as souths v dogs would be important.
Maybe you can ask the former NRL players who have played rep football that you talked to today, a saturday on a public holiday weekend to come in here and give their opinion. Seeing as how youre not a dole bludging stoner.

Please show where I said I had spoken to any NRL players, either current or former. It definitely wasn’t in the quote of mine you put in bold font a few responses ago.

 

[Clifferd]

I’d say it’s more non existent due to wrestling and players being offside.

Saying they’ll never adapt is crap. They’ve had to adapt from a 3 yard, to a 5 metre, to a ten metre defensive line over the history of the game. We are only 4 weeks into the year and some of you already want to throw your hands in the air and say it’s all too hard.

4 weeks into the year and it’s at its worst it’s ever been

 

[LineBall]

4 weeks into the year and it’s at its worst it’s ever been

I thought the warriors/roosters game was one of the best I’d seen in a while with regards to the play the ball, lack of wrestling and the 10 metres.

Don’t let a game with two of the teams most likely to give away a penalty put you off. Stay strong. The real test will be the number of penalties they concede when they next meet.

 

[justdave]

So you don’t want to see penalties, even though they were correct? Brilliant!

Most of them were correct I said. TBH, all I want is consistency. It’s not there

 

[OldPanther]

I bet half of these f**kwit nuffies have never even played a game of rugby league in their lives

When I played the touchy stood in line with the defence to police the 10m and signalled the ref as soon as someone went too early. Considering most are for offside at the moment I'm sure the refs could get a set standard they expect. All refs/touchies police the 10 in the same way so the players have no excuse of different refs having different techniques. There's half your penalties gone if professional athletes can manage something so basic.

 

[OldPanther]

Most of them were correct I said. TBH, all I want is consistency. It’s not there

Never has been unfortunately.

 

[Clifferd]

Ugh. Just going around in circles I give up.

Each to their own, I’ll leave it at that. Let’s hope it pays off.

 

[OldPanther]

Ugh. Just going around in circles I give up.

Each to their own, I’ll leave it at that. Let’s hope it pays off.

Well we're just here shouting opinions at each other. When it really gets down to it we are inconsequential. Either the current approach will continue and 1) we'll have to watch a stop start game all year, 2) the teams will have to work on themselves or 3) the refs will do what they do every other year and give up in a few weeks leaving us with the same football we've had the last few years.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Lets face it people,
Its not a true crackdown until they get that first second-row feed
Imagine the outcry!
Oh for the days of loose arms, feet across and striking prematurely. ....

 

[thorson1987]

I played the game for 15 years. But yeah, I guess I’ve never played in my entire life. What makes the game so exciting is the free flowing nature of play, which is now essentially non existent because of a penalty for a player being less than 1/4 metre offside

Whether yo agree with it or not, players will never adapt to this style of play because FATIGUE plays apart in a game of rugby league. But That’s only understood if you’ve played.

Lol such a dumb f**k argument.

I played for 20 years, refereed for 5 and still coach junior league so I guess that makes my opinion more valid than yours.

 

[Spot On]

There's been a lot of 'dumb f**k' argument in the thread.

The 'Sydneycentric' post was also a head scratcher. No clarification given by the poster so safe to assume it was due to an inferiority complex.

You know when a few people start to pull the, 'I bet you've never played the game' line out, their points have well and truly been eroded and are officially giving up the fight but not before one last desperate attempt to win at 'forcing backs' before full time.

Such poor play is worth another penalty!

 

[Surely]

This is why rules shouldn’t be f**ked with, there is a reason it used to be 5m not 10.

But noooo lets bring in unlimited interchange and change it to 10m to open up the game, f**king lol.

Go back to 5 no interchanges just reserves and police the f**king rules.

While we are at it bring back proper scrums so arse clowns who aren’t a hookers arse can’t be proclaimed the best the game has ever seen.

 

[Spot On]

Apparently modern day humans can not play rugby league for 80 mins though Surely. We can't get rid of the interchange!!!!!!! No, no, no. We must have giant 'athletes' sitting on the bench ready to 'make an impact' for 10 mins and be paid a motza for it.

I mean why would we want to see halves and hookers be creative with running and passing when we can have a defensive line stand offside all game and when they get tired replace them with a fresh player to keep the line in shmick shape for the entire 80 mins?

Great to watch. While we're at it, let's bend the ball carrier into a pretzel as he lays on the ground with three gargantuans on him and make sure he can't play the ball till we've had a rest. Then we'll stand in front of the ref, take off before the dummy half gets his hands on the ball and smash the next ball carrier as he catches the pass!

 

[justdave]

This thread is f**king great.

Don’t say that. I said something similar and lineball said good contribution. You’re gonna cop it now mate