Beavers Headgear said:
TH and Skinner are bang on i reckon
No side was robbed, the poor decisions went both ways all game.
1 of my favourites was Price being told he was offside, kept charging at Anasta who dropped the ball under that pressure, and it was only a scrum.
Also after some input on another decision. Anyone remember when the Warriors got the repeat set and Swann threw that long pass that the Chooks got hold of ?
No advantage was the call, but 95% of the time, if you gain possesion and take a step or throw the pass that is your advantage. Thoughts ?
No advantage. It's not like he got to charge forward, he was in a 50/50 broken field situation and ran backwards to make a pass. Or it's not like they got to the next ruck, or started making head ways, or had a seriously broken line in front of him. The way he reacted, I doubt he even thought it wasn't last tackle. It'd be unlikely he'd take that play on tackle zero or one, so you'd assess no advantage taken as he had no idea.
The touchie missing the strip was awful, but the clincher for mine was Shayne forgetting his duties as a first grade referee in officiating off sides when teams were in field goal range. That was the travesty in respect to McKinnon's miss. Two rucks they were abysmally offside. The other one that frustrates my ring off is the 'time off' call with 6 seconds to go, when the ball was knocked on (it was actually knocked back, quite clearly too coincidentally)... 30 minutes into the game, he does not blow time off. Why does he change for no change in situation but the time piece? Because he's reacting to circumstancial environments, something a referee, or any official should not do. You should be unduly influenced by outside non essentials. That in a crux is a huge part of why I hate golden point for the round robin matches, it's nothing but an artificial points distributor, and referees simply are not up to making the correct calls in that pressure. You can say 'excitement' this or 'excitement' that, but now we're discussing a poor 10 minutes of refereeing where the referee had opportunities to make decisive correct calls which would have decided the match, but was afraid or unable to. The fact is, a referee is going to cost a team their season in round robin play in a golden point match by making a howler of a call. It should be draw at the end of 80 in round robin, and 5 or 10 minutes each way NON golden point in the finals. You shouldn't be axed in the finals for a drop goal, or a poor refereeing penalty, if something goes wrong you should be given the chance to fight back and prove your worth.
