Just interested to hear your thoughts on Gift's disallowed try. I thought it looked o.k. through my maroon and white coloured glasses?
No try. They got it right and I'm glad they did as you don't want to feel that a dud call helped you win.
Hmm o.k. if it was a no try then I suppose maybe, it was fair that it was disallowed, thanks for clearing that up...! (Maybe the lenses in my maroon and white coloured glasses are just getting thicker as I get older, lol....!)
No try. The best way to judge them is this. Pretend it's Grand Final day and Manly are ahead by 3 with 1 minute to go and replace the Manly player, in this case Glenn, with Billy Slater. See I told you it was no try.
I thought the video refs got all the calls right. Amazing, I know. However, it was the on-field pinkies who continually stuffed up. They kept calling Canberra players back to the 10-metre mark, yet never penalised them. The pinkies are there to enforce the rules, not give coaching tips. I watched the two Friday night matches and the refereeing has, unfortunately, slipped back to 2012 standard after showing a marked improvement in the early rounds of 2013.
If the ref on the field went with try , then i think there wasnt enough evidence to deny him , but the fact that the ref went with no try on the field , fair decision from the video ref... but i swear it looked like he just got it down on first ground impact , then turned over !!!
