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Perth Red

Perth Red

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Lambretta said:
You know what I love about Rugby League fans?

The utter outrage that a team scored off the back of a refereeing error when they would rather the other team had scored off the back of a refereeing error
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You seem to be struggling to see the difference between a ref error (ie not being able to see everything correctly 100% of the time) and ref incompetence (ie a ref changing a decision mid play despite the rules saying he shouldn't). Most people can live with #1 as long as it doesn't happen too often, most people wont accept #2, even occurring once.
 
ReddFelon

ReddFelon

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Lambretta said:
You know what I love about Rugby League fans?

The utter outrage that a team scored off the back of a refereeing error when they would rather the other team had scored off the back of a refereeing error
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I find it fascinating, the story all year was that people were sick of Annersley coming out after a game and saying "yep, ref got that one wrong and it cost them the game" and now for the first time the referee actually goes, "damn, got that wrong better correct it" and now that's the worst thing to happen since the Super League war.
 
Lambretta

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Perth Red said:
You seem to be struggling to see the difference between a ref error (ie not being able to see everything correctly 100% of the time) and ref incompetence (ie a ref changing a decision mid play despite the rules saying he shouldn't). Most people can live with #1 as long as it doesn't happen too often, most people wont accept #2, even occurring once.
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Really? People can't live with the referees getting things right, because how they got it right was wrong?

f**k me

I wonder the vitriol had the same thing had happened to the other side?
 
Valheru

Valheru

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Perth Red said:
I can 100% live with refs getting it wrong when they have to make split decisions in areas that are almost impossible to see 100% correctly with the naked eye at full speed. Yes the call was wrong, only verified in super slo mo from a couple of different angles, but that isnt an issue for me. Refs get in the moment calls wrong, happens every game, has to be accepted as part of the game.

In 6 again they have a split second to make a decision and signal it to the players, they are bound to get them wrong occasionally. Not a problem for me, changing your mind after you've signaled that decision, that is just incompetence.
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So you don't mind them getting it wrong but you are against them getting is right.
 
Valheru

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Lambretta said:
Really? People can't live with the referees getting things right, because how they got it right was wrong?

f**k me

I wonder the vitriol had the same thing had happened to the other side?
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If it were the other way around no one would have cared because no one wanted us to win.

They are literally saying they would prefer the incorrect decision to be made.
 
Chook Norris

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Perth Red said:
You seem to be struggling to see the difference between a ref error (ie not being able to see everything correctly 100% of the time) and ref incompetence (ie a ref changing a decision mid play despite the rules saying he shouldn't). Most people can live with #1 as long as it doesn't happen too often, most people wont accept #2, even occurring once.
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It's contextual. If Wighton heard what Emre Guler heard then none of this even matters. If there wasn't an 80,000 crowd screaming and we were playing at the SCG then people don't even blink once over the decision because all players probably would've heard.

One thing we can determine is that fans are fickle and biased. I'm almost certain that if the Roosters/Storm copped that decision the general public would've been fine with it. We already have evidence of the public supporting refereeing incompetence when it suits their own agenda aka the Vunivalu out call from three weeks ago. In this case, the vast majority wanted Canberra to win hence the nit picking on referee decisions post game.
 
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It doesn’t matter if it was the right or wrong call. The fact that the ref made a call that influenced what the Raiders were going to do on tackle 5. By reversing the call they basically took their 5th tackle option off them.

There should be at least a rule that gives them back there 5th tackle. Might be technically the right call but it was a massive disadvantage to the Raiders
 
Knight Vision

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Pippen94 said:
Exciting GF & that's what you get out of it?
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Pretty much. The thread title is RIP Rugby League. The great game is a hollowed out shell of what it once was.

Gone is the triblesim, brutality, flare and off the cuff creativity and all that is left are fines and suspensions for slapping, hair pulling with boring wrestling and mechanised robots the likes of Cooper Cronk to hold aloft as "immortal in waiting". The management of RL is hastening it's own demise.
 
Aus_Dog

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Valheru said:
If it were the other way around no one would have cared because no one wanted us to win.

They are literally saying they would prefer the incorrect decision to be made.
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No you are looking at it through Rooster glasses. Raiders changed their play due to the refs making a call. The refs then changed the call during live play which is completely the wrong thing to do no matter if the original call was correct or not. Raiders robbed and what was looking being one of the greatest GF’s ever (no matter who won) turned into the most farcical GF ever
 
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Pippen94

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Knight Vision said:
Pretty much. The thread title is RIP Rugby League. The great game is a hollowed out shell of what it once was.

Gone is the triblesim, brutality, flare and off the cuff creativity and all that is left are fines and suspensions for slapping, hair pulling with boring wrestling and mechanised robots the likes of Cooper Cronk to hold aloft as "immortal in waiting". The management of RL is hastening it's own demise.
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Last time a player played 9 GF's St George reigned & they did it by softening up the opposition with defense for the first half. Past wasn't as great as you remember.
 
Perth Red

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Chook Norris said:
It's contextual. If Wighton heard what Emre Guler heard then none of this even matters. If there wasn't an 80,000 crowd screaming and we were playing at the SCG then people don't even blink once over the decision because all players probably would've heard.

One thing we can determine is that fans are fickle and biased. I'm almost certain that if the Roosters/Storm copped that decision the general public would've been fine with it. We already have evidence of the public supporting refereeing incompetence when it suits their own agenda aka the Vunivalu out call from three weeks ago. In this case, the vast majority wanted Canberra to win hence the nit picking on referee decisions post game.
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Again the mistake re Vunivalu wasn't a problem, refs make mistakes. If the ref had stopped play, then 1/2 way through the process changed his mind and decided to restart play and let them carry on then it would be a very different issue.

Id have liked to see the underdog win yesterday, but if the shoe was on the other foot and Raiders had won due to this very dody reffing I'd be feeling exactly the same way about the state of our game.
 
beave

beave

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Perth Red said:
Geez it does look like it hits the roosters player!

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geez, it does look like this person is holding up the Tower of Pisa.......

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