Diving is the act of pretending that you have been fouled when you haven't been.
That's not what's happening here.
Common sense talker here
Diving is the act of pretending that you have been fouled when you haven't been.
That's not what's happening here.
There is an easy fix, unless it's blatant foul play that requires a sin bin/send off, the video is not allowed to review these incidents
If the referee's miss it, too bad, so sad.
Diving is the act of pretending that you have been fouled when you haven't been.
That's not what's happening here.
Diving is the act of pretending that you have been fouled when you haven't been.
That's not what's happening here.
Lol about Nrl players Diving and comparing it to Soccer. In soccer they don't get touched and they fall down where as here they get hit high don't get the penalty so they stay down to get the right call. The problem should not be with the players but the refs for missing these tackles in the first place.
My biggest problem isn't players staying down for penalties, it's players staying down for minor injuries causing huge stoppages in play (worst is when play is stopped for a minute due to cramp!). A simple solution would be that after the ref has called time-off a shot clock starts, maybe 20 seconds or so, and if an injured player hasn't cleared out of the way of play in that time then they must go off and be counted as an interchange. That way players with serious injuries can stay down as they will be taken off anyway, but divers and minor injuries will have to move as it disadvantages their team to hold up play
This.
Personally I?m happy for my team to miss out on the odd penalty if it puts an end to the gutless diving. If it?s bad enough, the MRC can deal with it.
Funny how a few words from Trent Robinson can be taken by some on this forum as gospel when neither the "diving" epidemic nor Cummins' "bias" is supported by facts.
You forgot about the mcrone and nightingale lie downs.
Diving has become so commonplace and almost accepted as part of modern rugby league, that no one seems to care so much about it anymore ? which is almost as big a disgrace as the act itself.
This game was not built on rewarding acts of cowardice. Staying down to earn a penalty makes the game and the players look weak and soft, which we all know, is not the case. But actions speak louder than words. Any act of lying, especially one designed to gain an advantage, is always going to be seen, essentially, as an act of cheating.
While cheating is impossible to remove from any sport, it is possible to reduce this particular form of it. That can only be for the betterment of the game?s and the player?s image.
While most dives don?t directly result in a major advantage ? like a try or match winning penalty goal (such as Issac Luke?s infamous golden-point dive a few seasons back) ? far too many of them do change the momentum of a game significantly.
If a player takes a dive, the perpetrator should be automatically declared as concussed and made to sit out for the rest of the match and the following week, to ensure that they have recovered from their injury which debilitated them so.
This could be passed off by the NRL as a change designed to protect the welfare of all their players, while at the same time dramatically reducing the amount of diving that takes place in a game. It would also help games flow a little better and allow for actual skill to decide who wins a game, not acting capability.
With this gutless act wiped out, the NRL could then get down to the business of removing the biggest blight on the game, the horrible wrestling tactics.
While these are much harder to get rid of, more effort needs to be made to crack down on it.
Diving is nothing more than cheating, but wrestling holds and the like are downright dangerous and cowardly.
As if the NRL isn?t hard enough already, every club ? not just Melbourne, the long-time poster child for the controversial methods ? now employs wrestling coaches who teach players how to attack weak points so as to dominate more easily in defence. This isn?t skill. It?s ugly and pathetic.
Sadly, the longer it takes to try and remove these eyesores on rugby league, the more it will infiltrate all levels of the code and become acceptable practice for all players ? including the 8-year-old kids, who will be turned off the game that is becoming increasingly unrecognisable from the one we all grew up with.
http://commentaryboxsports.com/australian/nrl/a-rule-change-to-eliminate-diving-scourge.html
So lets say Canberra are playing in the prelim final against the Broncos. Blair knows he can hit a little high since they miss most of them. In the 2nd minute, Hodgson runs from dummy half, and Blair comes in and hits him in the jaw. Refs miss it as they aren't sure where contact was made. Hodgson goes off and fails a concussion test. You go on to lose the game.
You find it completely acceptable that you don't even get a penalty in that game for an illegal hit that knocked out your best player?
Players are coached to push the boundaries. You're kidding yourself if you think high tackles wouldn't increase.
There was a time when there wasn't a video ref. High tackles weren't anymore prevalent.