Its a nonsense to trawl back through replays looking for reasons to deny a try. That is not what the bunker was introduced to do. The bunker is there to help the referees and not itself make major refereeing decisions unless invited to review something in particular.. It has morphed and is a blight on the modern game. Come on NRL fix it please!
Agree.
The weird thing is that the bunker rule on "black and white", not feel or interpretation whereas the on field ref does.
Why does the on field ref have some latitude on interpretations of decisions but the video ref doesn't?
They are referees also so why are they hamstrung when in the bunker?
If the on field ref thought it was okay and didn't ask for the review then why does the bunker intervene?
It's not like the ref thought it was a try and asked them to check for a possible obstruction, in his mind there wasn't a problem.
Then why not intervene on say, when Paulo was tackled and Parra's second effort put him into touch when we're up 14-0?
Plenty of time before the scrum to check and overturn if deemed so.
A big turning point imo, another set for us in their red zone instead they get the ball, then a penalty to get them out of trouble and away they went.