Disagree, but I haven't watched a union game for a decade or so. Back when I watched they were blowing 40 or 50 penalties a game and games were resulting in a team winning by 6 penalty goals to 5 penalty goals. It is a part of the reason why the 'product' is so shit.The product is shit, but match officials in RU shit all over RL from a great height.
We shouldn’t be poaching their players, it’s the refs we should be targeting.
Haven’t watched the game in a decade but you disagree that their officials aren’t good?Disagree, but I haven't watched a union game for a decade or so. Back when I watched they were blowing 40 or 50 penalties a game and games were resulting in a team winning by 6 penalty goals to 5 penalty goals. It is a part of the reason why the 'product' is so shit.
The technical penalties around their set piece were ridiculous, and I played the game for nearly a decade. After stopping, ten years later I had no idea what most of the penalties were for and I knew the game inside out. Like I've said here before, there is absolutely nothing about rugby union we should be copying. Poach their players ... sure ... but copy their game, no f***ing thanks.
No need to question my comprehension just because I don't agree with you. Why would I sit through a game that I don't enjoy and one which I think is inferior? Last time I watched I thought the game was shit and from what I have seen it has only gotten worse since then. Why would I watch that? To admire the referees?Haven’t watched the game in a decade but you disagree that their officials aren’t good?
Comprehension also not your strongest skill - didn’t say their rules are superior, why would we want to turn into RU. Their officials are superior, and with time, not long either, would be better NRL referees than the current crop.
You’re still talking about apples when the topic is bananas.No need to question my comprehension just because I don't agree with you. Why would I sit through a game that I don't enjoy and one which I think is inferior? Last time I watched I thought the game was shit and from what I have seen it has only gotten worse since then. Why would I watch that? To admire the referees?
Their officials are superior, and with time, not long either, would be better NRL referees than the current crop.
You're right. You admitted their product is shit, we shouldn't poach their players but instead should poach their referees. So you watch that shit-show to marvel at their referees. Good for you old chap.You’re still talking about apples when the topic is bananas.
Reading comprehension: 1/10.How many forward passes did old Union mate let go? Complaining about forward passes in league yet using a Union ref as your flag bearer. They blow 50 penalties a game. They sinbin players for getting an intercept wrong.
The officiating in league isn't good at the moment but step back and take a look at the state of both codes. It's pretty clear that Union is in a pretty shit position.
I think the problem is they're not very intelligent. What tells me that, is the condescending way they speak to players, and the lack of basic thinking that goes into decision making. Classic example - the Adam Gee non-call on Jaemon Salmon's late hit on TMM last month. Annesley says it was wrong, and Gee looked at the contact but not the lateness. Holy f**k. I'd had 6 beers, and I saw both.The problem with NRL Referees is that they have their instincts trained out of them. They become robots who use a vocabulary only they understand, and interpret rules in opposition to their intent and the spirit of the game. Anyone who doesn't adhere to this style of refereeing doesn't make it to SG Ball level, let alone NRL.
Any hypothetical Rugby convert would suffer the same fate, or they simply wouldn't make it.
You should become a league referee.You're right. You admitted their product is shit, we shouldn't poach their players but instead should poach their referees. So you watch that shit-show to marvel at their referees. Good for you old chap.
Haha. Do you know what I really can't comprehend? People who admit something (in this case rugby union) is shit to watch, but still spend 2 hours of their time watching shit?Reading comprehension: 1/10.
I am not saying anything about union's position, or their laws, or the quality of the product. I thought I made that very clear. I don't particularly enjoy union - I don't watch any version of it apart from the All Blacks. I grew up obsessed with it, so that's an indictment on the game. I agree with you, their code is in a dire state.
I am saying the quality of professionalism, communication, just the general ability to do their job properly in union refs, across the board, is so much better than league. If you swapped league refs and union refs, our game would become better officiated, and union would cease to exist. Our refs are so incompetent, so poor in their communication style, it's ridiculous. Union's laws are so much more convoluted than league, but which game has half a dozen complete f**k-ups each week - and not only that, but from a replay system...not even in real time?
You watch, this weekend there will be 3-4 complete f**k ups in the NRL, and almost none in international rugby. It's not the laws, because union's are a shitstorm. It's the officials.
What if their last name is Sutton?The problem with NRL Referees is that they have their instincts trained out of them. They become robots who use a vocabulary only they understand, and interpret rules in opposition to their intent and the spirit of the game. Anyone who doesn't adhere to this style of refereeing doesn't make it to SG Ball level, let alone NRL.
Any hypothetical Rugby convert would suffer the same fate, or they simply wouldn't make it.