Refereeing The Magic Round sin bin directive

[Wizardman]

Im all for doing what we can to protect players from head injury. But, this head protection sin binning directive has been absolutely crazy. It has destroyed two games this round already.

I'd even be okay with the guys making contact to the head to have some time off the game.....but don't destroy the contest that the crowd and television audience pay for and hope to see.

Lets hope this directive is knocked in the head after tonight.

 

[moffla]

Hope it dies tonight. What a terrible, terrible introduction and on magic round at that.

 

[Diesel]

It was worth it to see Broncos concede 50

 

[wittyfan]

I'm actually liking the new rules.

 

[TIGER14]

Absolute disaster and an embarrassment to the game. Surely it ends after this round.
Terrible round to start it in too when you're trying to put on a spectacle with Magic Round.

 

[Saxon]

I do not like it Sam-I-Am.

 

[bileduct]

The crackdown will end after the Raiders v Bulldogs game tomorrow.

 

[Exsilium]

The crackdown will end after the Raiders v Bulldogs game tomorrow.

I tipped the Bulldogs before this bullshit came to light.

 

[Frederick]

My prediction for this shitful rule:

They won't change it
PVL will be hailed a genius by his suckholes in the media
Every team will have at least one player binned EXCEPT Penrith. The Titans will instead have 4 players binned

 

[ReddFelon]

I put the blame squarely on previous admin not doing anything to address concussion issues. The AFL basically call any contact of any kind above the shoulder high. The NRL unfortunately could have addressed this years ago with a tightening of the rules. Instead they left it, did nothing and now have to over correct.

But Broncos 6-50

 

[some11]

f**king joke.

Current players, past players, commentators all blowing up over it.

What an overreaction. Why do it this week of all weeks. Are you trying to kill the game?

 

[skeepe]

Riki and Croker should have gone, and would have all year, for foul play and a professional foul respectively.

The Schuster and Gamble ones were a direct result of the edict and were straight up bullshit.

 

[Sphagnum]

It’s very engaging for the fans to watch blokes get sin binned for nothing. Really cleaning up the game

 

[AnonymousLurker]

The problem is there is so many in the tackle that the head gets hit , if they didn’t do this dominate shit , which made having more in tackles holding up players more beneficial than a one v one classic tackle players heads would have been protected

 

[Chook Norris]

What a completely inept and utter overreaction by the NRL tonight. They've well and truly f**ed magic round.

If they were intending to attract more fans to the game, they've done the complete opposite. They've made the games a massive joke tonight.

 

[Sphagnum]

What a completely inept and utterly overreaction by the NRL tonight. They've well and truly f**ed magic round.

If they were intending to attract more fans to the game, they've done the complete opposite. They've made the games a massive joke tonight.

Tbf, they were 2 pretty shit games between four bottom 4 teams so they might as well experiment on them

 

[Slackboy72]

I put the blame squarely on previous admin not doing anything to address concussion issues. The AFL basically call any contact of any kind above the shoulder high. The NRL unfortunately could have addressed this years ago with a tightening of the rules. Instead they left it, did nothing and now have to over correct.

But Broncos 6-50

I put the blame squarely on Hollywood Harrigan's shoulders.
He turned the 5m into an 8m.
He stopped penalising teams to "keep the game flowing".
He gave leg ups to teams behind in contests to "keep it interesting".
He stopped using the bin and the send off, and we started putting people on report "to keep the numbers equal".
Pundits like Gould praised him as the gold standard as shoulder charges to the head crept higher and higher.

Now we have no shoulder charges.
Now we have a generation of refs who have ignored the rule-book.
Now we have the consequences of legal action.

f**k Bill Harrigan the weaselly Super League pinup merkin.

 

[GreenMachine121]

There will be 30+ bins this weekend surely .... it’s like watching Steve Clark ref on repeat lol
f**k the broncos
Looking forward to us getting at least three tmrw .... young is odds on

 

[Sphagnum]

There will be 30+ bins this weekend surely .... it’s like watching Steve Clark ref on repeat lol
f**k the broncos
Looking forward to us getting at least three tmrw .... young is odds on

The only way I’d notice he was even playing is if he got ten in the bin. Absolute passenger.

 

[ReddFelon]

I put the blame squarely on Hollywood Harrigan's shoulders.
He turned the 5m into an 8m.
He stopped penalising teams to "keep the game flowing".
He gave leg ups to teams behind in contests to "keep it interesting".
He stopped using the bin and the send off, and we started putting people on report "to keep the numbers equal".
Pundits like Gould praised him as the gold standard as shoulder charges to the head crept higher and higher.

Now we have no shoulder charges.
Now we have a generation of refs who have ignored the rule-book.
Now we have the consequences of legal action.

f**k Bill Harrigan the weaselly Super League pinup merkin.

All of this is true too. I remember mid 90s games. Swinging arm to the head automatic send off. Then this report garbage started. I think it was 2018 when commentators were laughing because there was the first send off since 2015.