LESStar58 said:
Stop f**king complaining! Its not like they had any affect on the final result!
Thats not the point, is it? Its debate on the referees mistake.
I mean what if it did affect the outcome. The Storm came home strongly, what if they won by 4 points. What if it was the other way around and your team lost by 4 poinst with a decision like that, and Robbie Kearns, Matt Orford, Steve Bell got robbed in their last game for your club.
Potentially, this sort of blunder could hurt a club - Simpkins showed there he's more than capable of making a bad blunder so he shouldn't be given the chance to wrongly decide a match of the magnitude of the matches coming up.
Poor piece of refereeing, even moreso when he stood about 3-4 metres away in the perfect position to make the decision. At the most crucial moment somehow he must have allowed his attention to be diverted and made an "assumption", which referees should not be making. If he had lost focus for .5 of a second he should have had the guts to go to the video ref, thats what they're there for.