Rd20: 615pm EELS v Titans GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank Stadium 16/7/23

[84 Baby]

Ours players need to be more clean skin. Like that lovely NAS fellow

 

[yy_cheng]

It was Gutho who put that kick in.
A very risky all or nothing play that paid off brilliantly. I think Simonsson may have been grabbed a fraction of a second before he got the ball but too close to call.

Awesome run by Matto to get the quick play-the-ball before the field goal as well.

i wonder when they spoke about executing the play considering simonssen was so far away.

do they have hand signals? does the trainer come on and tell guth to kick to simmo then the trainer sprints to simmo to let him know it's on...

 

[emjaycee]

i wonder when they spoke about executing the play considering simonssen was so far away.

do they have hand signals? does the trainer come on and tell guth to kick to simmo then the trainer sprints to simmo to let him know it's on...

Gutho would have called a play to Simmonson just before kicking it.

I think the call they use for that one is "long kick the King"

 

[yy_cheng]

Gutho would have called a play to Simmonson just before kicking it.

I think the call they use for that one is "long kick the King"

but they were 25m apart, how could he hear it especially with the crowd...

like Tino was saying to the ref... I'm not shouting, i just cant hear you over the crowd.

Do they play chinese whispers and pass it on along the line?

 

[emjaycee]

but they were 25m apart, how could he hear it especially with the crowd...

like Tino was saying to the ref... I'm not shouting, i just cant hear you over the crowd.

Do they play chinese whispers and pass it on along the line?

If Simmonson couldnt hear him, Gutho might have asked the Titans players to let him know.

 

[yy_cheng]

If Simmonson couldnt hear him, Gutho might have asked the Titans players to let him know.

Guth to Joe --> Tell Matto that I'm gonna kick to Simmo
Joe to Matto --> Tell Lano that Gutho gonna kick to Simmo
Matto to Lano --> Tell Asi that Gutho gonna kick to Simmo
Lano to Asi --> Tell Sivo that Gutho gonna kick to Simmo
Asi to Sivo --> Tell Simmo that Gutho gonna kick to Simmo
Sivo to Asi --> I dont understand.... Gutho what?
Asi to Sivo --> Tell Simmo that Gutho gonna kick to Simmo

Guth kicks and Simmo gets it

Sivo to Asi --> Too late

 

[Gronk]

Dude.

 

[emjaycee]

FFS, I meant after yesterday dude.

 

[lingard]

We should fight the Sivo charge. He got him high around the chest, and it wasn't a shoulder charge. Disgraceful refereeing.

 

[the phantom menace]

And if we fight it unsuccessfully then we're without Sivo for an extra week - bonus!

 

[Noise]

We should fight the Sivo charge. He got him high around the chest, and it wasn't a shoulder charge. Disgraceful refereeing.

He still made contact with the head which means he would lose

 

[T.S Quint]

He still made contact with the head which means he would lose

Could maybe get a downgrade, but it's unlikely.

 

[the phantom menace]

Lol, Titans were officially robbed...

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-admits-titans-should-have-been-awarded-potential-matchwinning-penalty/news-story/fcaabbdca6bd307a490491294b331b54

NRL admits Titans should have been awarded potential match-winning penalty​

Graham Annesley praised the referees last week for making a tough call in golden point, but he can’t defend them this time after they missed a clear penalty that cost the Titans dearly.

The NRL admits the Titans should have been awarded a penalty in the final few minutes of their game against the Eels which would have put them in front and within two competition points of the top eight if they’d held on for the win.

What makes it even tougher to swallow for Titans fans is that it’s the second week in a row that their team has had a game decided by an offside penalty, although the NRL says the correct call was made in Round 19 when Erin Clark jumped off the line too early which allowed the Dolphins to win in golden point.

NRL head of football elite competitions Graham Annesley praised referee Grant Atkins for making the tough call in the Dolphins game, but he couldn’t defend the officials at CommBank Stadium for not blowing the whistle.

The Titans were down 25-24 with four minutes to go when halfback Tanah Boyd had a field goal charged down by Shaun Lane.

The problem was Lane and Ryan Matterson were both offside, as was Eels skipper Clint Gutherson who stopped chasing Boyd once he was called out by referee Chris Butler.

Annesley says it was a bad miss by the officials, and said the onus was on the touch judges to tell Butler that the Eels were offside.

etc etc

 

[JokerEel]

Like I posted in the Match game thread Verills was offside when Moses kicked his field goal but because he kicked it that just gets ignored..

 

[Gazzamatta]

Like I posted in the Match game thread Verills was offside when Moses kicked his field goal but because he kicked it that just gets ignored..

3 point field goal?

 

[hineyrulz]

3 point field goal?

Wrong game Gazza.

 

[Twizzle]

about time one went our way

 

[yy_cheng]

Arthur blamed himself for not bringing RCG off earlier after backing up from Origin but still conceded it was a “sloppy, lazy and clumsy effort”.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-world-divided-after-eels-gun-cops-huge-ban-for-really-low-act/news-story/ba2a7a41d2af558bcc05e0abe9ee8531

 

[yy_cheng]

Annesley looks at Gutherson try from another angle

NRL head of football elite competitions Graham Annesley takes a look at Clint Gutherson's match-defining try, awarded by the barest of margins

www.nrl.com

 

[eel01s]

Did Annersley call out the error in not binning Tino for the shoulder charge? Didn't think so.