Have I been sanitised?

[eagle66]

Has VLandysball sanitised my football brain?
For 50+ years I have relished the tough encounters, the grind and the opportunity to take the one chance you are offered.
But I sat there last night, abusing the TV. That was a high shot! Where is the 6 again? Obstruction!
I was missing the one sided contest. Watching one team get to a 20 pt lead at the 10 minute mark of a game. Then every 50/50 call go one way depending on who was playing. Followed by the obligatory evening up of penalties and 6 against. Wondering if a team can hold out while they have 2 players in the bin.
Where was that game? We nearly had 200 games this year just like it and I am thinking I may be missing it!

 

[XV-1]

Consistency is operated with the refs..

Penrith were mini Storm last night. Holding players down for far too long for the first 4 tackles, then doing normal ruck the last 2 tackles.

Literally offside all night as they knew the ref was not going to penalise them, only the odd 6 again. Their D is more than good enough to hold out a few more tackles.

Bring back penalties in 2022 as I don’t want to watch these types of matches every week as it compromises the attacking footy prowess of teams like Souths and Manly

 

[The Wheel]

Plus Manly play PVL ball very well - bring it back I say

 

[Captain Moondog]

Has VLandysball sanitised my football brain?
For 50+ years I have relished the tough encounters, the grind and the opportunity to take the one chance you are offered.
But I sat there last night, abusing the TV. That was a high shot! Where is the 6 again? Obstruction!
I was missing the one sided contest. Watching one team get to a 20 pt lead at the 10 minute mark of a game. Then every 50/50 call go one way depending on who was playing. Followed by the obligatory evening up of penalties and 6 against. Wondering if a team can hold out while they have 2 players in the bin.
Where was that game? We nearly had 200 games this year just like it and I am thinking I may be missing it!

Don't worry, we'll get a completely different set of rules next year.

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[Waz13]

Don't worry, we'll get a completely different set of rules next year.

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Yep next year shorts will have tags on them and the defender will be required to pull the tag off, but only with his left hand. If the defender uses his right arm it’s 10 new tackles followed by a free FG attempt from halfway worth 4pts!

 

[The Who]

Hopefully last night showed that players won't get an automatic penalty when they hold their neck after a tackle.
The NRL also needs to change the rule that a ball coming into contact with the arm of a player making a tackle is not a knock-on, just as the ref and Bunker ruled when the ball was kicked into a player making a tackle.

 

[Kaufusi's Elbow]

Finals footy is different. Plenty was let go and that's the game I prefer. Pedantic, Perenarra-like refs who blow the pea out of the whistle kill the game for me so it was good to see the ref put the whistle away for all but the most obvious infringements. Origin-like

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Finals footy is different. Plenty was let go and that's the game I prefer. Pedantic, Perenarra-like refs who blow the pea out of the whistle kill the game for me so it was good to see the ref put the whistle away for all but the most obvious infringements. Origin-like

I thought it was pretty good last night and led to a nice tight contest for a change.

 

[47MVEagle]

There were 2 incidents last night resulting in 2 different outcomes.

The first was when Jai Arrow dropped the ball while being tackled but then copped a high shot from Kikau as he was falling - ruled as a penalty to souffs.

In the second half a similar incident happened (cant remember exact details) but to Penrith this time, but instead of receiving a penalty, the earlier ingringement was ruled upon, resulting in a turnover to souffs.

 

[Tragic Eagle]

Penrith got the rub of the green and lay all over them last night. They also picked up players carrying them backwards after held was called and dragged players backwards along the ground. It gave them a huge advantage bring back penalties when you are in your own half please.

 

[47MVEagle]

Another thing - the 9 commentary team (Gould & Johns in particular) kept banging on in the second half about how "the next penalty will make things very interesting" & "souffs need a penalty to get them up the other end" etc.

To me that just shows how much playing for a penalty has become a major tactic in the game.

When commentators are almost urging a penalty to get the team they're backing home instead of talking about what they need to do from a footy playing perspective its indicative of where the game is at now.

 

[MissKate]

Souffs were offside pretty much the whole game, so can’t see how that favoured the riff

 

[StuBoot]

The NRL also needs to change the rule that a ball coming into contact with the arm of a player making a tackle is not a knock-on, just as the ref and Bunker ruled when the ball was kicked into a player making a tackle.

It’s a tough one.
Another of those rules that they had to make black and white due to coaches/players being one step ahead.
I understand why it was brought in, doesn’t mean l like it but it does take out a grey area that was becoming greyer.

Players were getting so good at making it look like they weren’t playing at the ball when they were.

Commentators like Gould know why the rules are as they are because he was one of the coaches trying to exploit anything they could.

He’d be better off explaining the rule/s and why they are rather than banging on how stupid they are.