Referee Peter Gough the worst referee in the NRL. Maybe the world.

[BLM01]

Here's a few ref stats for you, and the percentage of games we have won under that ref:

Adam Gee - 40%
Grant Atkins - 44%
Chris Sutton - 33%
Gerard Sutton - 35%
Chris Butler - 38%
Peter Gough - 61%

I'll take Gough as the ref any day over either of the Suttons.

Stats from : https://afltables.com/rl/misc/referees.html

What about moonshine Klein?

 

[2010Dragons]

He's reffing the Knights/Manly game. How is that being dropped?

I’m willing to bet that he will once again f**k this game up with his own interpretation of the rules. GOUGH is an idiot.

 

[JohnnoMcJohnno]

I’m willing to bet that he will once again f**k this game up with his own interpretation of the rules. GOUGH is an idiot.

Maybe he is an idiot. But if so, he appears to be an idiot who generally favors St George. That's a good thing.

 

[JohnnoMcJohnno]

What about moonshine Klein?

Ashley Klein - 52%

 

[Mojo]

Agree it is te bunker with their 500 TV's that get confused and see what the rest of the world cant
This reliance on super slo-mo for a decision is a distortion of commonsense reality

It’s a blight on the sport.

 

[Kolum Kid]

Watching tonight's game it doesn't surprise me that we only have a 40% rate when he is the ref

 

[KogarahWarrior]

I’m willing to bet that he will once again f**k this game up with his own interpretation of the rules. GOUGH is an idiot.

This aged like wine hahaha, exactly what happened

 

[Slippery Morris]

Saints got the full complement of penalties last game as well as a sin bin for a player later fined not suspended. The copped penalties from dissent to offside from a kickoff. Well done Gough. Good to see he know all the rules and can apply them on tap when needed.

 

[BLM01]

Saints got the full complement of penalties last game as well as a sin bin for a player later fined not suspended. The copped penalties from dissent to offside from a kickoff. Well done Gough. Good to see he know all the rules and can apply them on tap when needed.

What about the 7th tackle try we werwe awarded

 

[Slippery Morris]

They bring out that blunder to cover up all the ones that went against Saints like sin binning JDB when it ended up being a fine after last weeks Radley stayed on and copped 4 weeks.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

It’s a blight on the sport.

What is a bigger blight on the sport that really shits me to tears is ball stealing.....I can accept to a point a loose carry but when blokes grapple/reaf or grab the ball from another player is crap....it's not Rugby League in its true sense imo just I'm bigger and strong than you give it here....absolutely hate it.

 

[Dragon David]

What is a bigger blight on the sport that really shits me to tears is ball stealing.....I can accept to a point a loose carry but when blokes grapple/reaf or grab the ball from another player is crap....it's not Rugby League in its true sense imo just I'm bigger and strong than you give it here....absolutely hate it.

I hate it too BSE. It becomes kindergarten stuff when a guy grabs at the ball and pulls as hard as he can to take possession and says just like a small brat - "gimme dat, it's mine uverwise I'm gunna tell my mummy on ya!".

 

[Gourley's Socks]

What is a bigger blight on the sport that really shits me to tears is ball stealing.....I can accept to a point a loose carry but when blokes grapple/reaf or grab the ball from another player is crap....it's not Rugby League in its true sense imo just I'm bigger and strong than you give it here....absolutely hate it.

Completely agree and such a simple solution (not mine but I'll regurgitate it): the moment a second man enters the tackle, the ball can't be stolen.

 

[Slippery Morris]

What does my head in is as soon as a ball leaves a players grasp it is immediately a knock on. They don't even check to see if it goes backwards for most cases. Also players get tackled and get up and go again only for the ref to tell them to go back and play the ball. No more penalty given. If only that was around during Tigers v Dragons Semi. Poor Baz.

 

[Mojo]

What does my head in is as soon as a ball leaves a players grasp it is immediately a knock on. They don't even check to see if it goes backwards for most cases. Also players get tackled and get up and go again only for the ref to tell them to go back and play the ball. No more penalty given. If only that was around during Tigers v Dragons Semi. Poor Baz.

or, they pull-up the play and send them back to the mark to play the ball again and, most often, the player goes back to the spot where they originally played the ball incorrectly in the first place! Why is it never a penalty for moving off the mark?

 

[SGMax]

What about the 7th tackle try we werwe awarded

We got one extra tackle.....wow!! Its only an issue cos we scored.
Every time we cop dodgy 6 agains against us its usually 3 or 4 extra tackles and no one questions it.

 

[SGMax]

What is a bigger blight on the sport that really shits me to tears is ball stealing.....I can accept to a point a loose carry but when blokes grapple/reaf or grab the ball from another player is crap....it's not Rugby League in its true sense imo just I'm bigger and strong than you give it here....absolutely hate it.

Exactly....its not rugby league, it looks like a hyena attacking prey before the pack run off with the newborn.

 

[dannyt]

Completely agree and such a simple solution (not mine but I'll regurgitate it): the moment a second man enters the tackle, the ball can't be stolen.

It used to be a free-for-all when it came to stealing the ball-anyone could grab the ball despite the number of players in a tackle. The one-on-one strip was brought in, and I'm pretty sure that that is how the rule was interpreted, i.e., as soon as there are two people in a tackle, the ball can't be stolen.

 

[Gippsy]

It used to be a free-for-all when it came to stealing the ball-anyone could grab the ball despite the number of players in a tackle. The one-on-one strip was brought in, and I'm pretty sure that that is how the rule was interpreted, i.e., as soon as there are two people in a tackle, the ball can't be stolen.

Agree, and if they enforced this bit, , as soon as there are two people in a tackle, the ball can't be stolen. or tweaked the rules so that this applied, it would remove this blight on the game.

 

[Parko1310]

It used to be a free-for-all when it came to stealing the ball-anyone could grab the ball despite the number of players in a tackle. The one-on-one strip was brought in, and I'm pretty sure that that is how the rule was interpreted, i.e., as soon as there are two people in a tackle, the ball can't be stolen.

Agree, and if they enforced this bit, , as soon as there are two people in a tackle, the ball can't be stolen. or tweaked the rules so that this applied, it would remove this blight on the game.

That was the rule, they changed it a couple of years ago because there were one-on-one strips being penalised for a second player touching the player before they got stripped. Now as long as there is one tackler in the tackle at the time of the strip, it is play on