The trouble with the fans is they want it both ways. If a ref makes a call on the spot and it's wrong they yell "sack him", but the match between Tigers and Souths today, received complaints from Phil Gould on how many stoppages there were by refs going to video replay.
Video replay should only be used when it's absolutely necessary. Sacking Maxwell is just going to discouraged refs using their own initiative, and will encourage referees referring every try to the video ref.
Continually going to Video ref ruins fluidness of the game, its that simple.
While I agree with what you're saying, the issue we've seen this weekend has nothing to do with it. This system of "going with the refs call" has now changed things from the refs being scared to make a call to the video refs being too scared to change their call.
Nobody wants to take blame for things going wrong so the refs send it upstairs and the video ref says "no, no, I'll go with you so if it's wrong it's your fault".
Tonight's game was a clear knock on that should have been called back, yesterday the Eels got a try after it went forward off Mau's hand. They should have had a scrum feed 10 metres out.
These were obvious clear as day decisions that the video ref refused to make just to absolve themselves of any real blame should it later be proven incorrect.
