Refereeing

[Moffo]

How many calls did they get erong?

Missed strips and a stupid forward pass call. f**k them off

 

[besthalfbackPEARCE]

They can take Ennis with them

 

[Tweed Titan]

Yep hate to play the ref card, but they were shit.

 

[Charlie124]

get em onside!

 

[Moffo]

How many penalties did new get? 2? ffs

 

[Liddell]

There were a few, mid air tackle on Dugan, missed strip, "forward" pass.

Still, we were ahead with 10 to go, if we were good enough we would have won.

 

[Big Pete]

Qld got the brunt of some fortunate calls. Two were blatant in the Uate strip and Tonga tackle on Dugan and the Pearce call while technically correct was inconsistent.

With that said, the Blues got away with a lot more in general play. Check out the spear tackle Scott hit Yow Yeh with.

 

[andrew057]

 

[Matt23]

Someone needs to tell Archer he's no Bill Harrigan and no Barry Gomersall for that matter either.

 

[Mr Fourex]

How many calls did they get erong?

Missed strips and a stupid forward pass call. f**k them off

As a completely biased QLD'r I would agree with your sentiment

....if I wasn't too busy celebrating. :lol:

Seriously though the non-forward pass ...... the JT strip and the Dugan tackled in the air incident had me scratching my head.

I thought they squared things up by letting the NSW fantastic four of grubs (Gallen, Bird, Scott and Ennis) get away with their usual shit in the ruck and play the ball

 

[Raul_Pato]

REFEREES OUT!!!

Seriously, how could you pick them, Hayne should be ref.

 

[Charles Bronson]

the main problem was letting the play the ball be slowed down too much

 

[Apey]

Qld got the brunt of some fortunate calls. Two were blatant in the Uate strip and Tonga tackle on Dugan and the Pearce call while technically correct was inconsistent.

With that said, the Blues got away with a lot more in general play. Check out the spear tackle Scott hit Yow Yeh with.

Agreed for the most part although I hope you're not talking about Pearce's pass being called forward. If that was considered a forward pass then I guess I've been watching NFL all my life.

 

[Big Pete]

Thrown out of the hands forward and certainly went forward by about a metre.

Tough to call it up given how many were let go but he was asking for it, stupid play to start the second half with.

 

[Matt23]

Hayne should be ref.

From memory he does a better job of origin then Archer does

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Archer ruins every game he is in charge of

 

[Big Pete]

At least Archer didn't give his usual rubberband penalties.

That's my massive pet hate.

 

[j0nesy]

Seriously though the non-forward pass ...... the JT strip and the Dugan tackled in the air incident had me scratching my head.

I thought they squared things up by letting the NSW fantastic four of grubs (Gallen, Bird, Scott and Ennis) get away with their usual shit in the ruck and play the ball

Agreed. Some odd decisions against NSW, QLD the better team though. Not sure about NSW getting away with more in the ruck though, I thought both teams were give a lot of leway there.

 

[Parramatta1947]

I was more annoyed by the forward passes that were missed.

The refereeing was poor only because so many of the dud calls went against one team. No one would have cared if the calls went 50/50.

 

[oldmancraigy]

I agree with the thread.

The refereeing was disgraceful.

However, as a Blues fan, I can say that NSW got the better of the terrible decisions.

We were allowed to lay all over the tackled player forever; we were allowed to make mid air tackles on defenders; we could grapple the neck (yes Jason King that's you); we were allowed to be offside.

Refereeing helped NSW cause greatly - slowed the game down and kept us in it. I'd hate to see what would've happened if the refs policed the play the ball (44-0 Qld?)