Refs think they are rock stars

[The Insomniac]

All Good points, and on top of those, the NRL have a blockbuster game next week to decide who gets the spoon, which will rate its sox off. Blind Freddy could see how this has all been pre ordained by officialdom. This competition is a sick joke.

Yep the fix is in for the spoonfinal next week.

 

[The '47ers]

These touchies running in and carrying on is giving me the 💩 as well. Get off the field and stay off.

 

[HK_Eagle]

These touchies running in and carrying on is giving me the 💩 as well. Get off the field and stay off.

It’s from decades of irrelevance and impotence.

 

[davohan123]

I just saw the Warriors v Bulldogs game and wow what a contrast to how our game was refereed.

You see at least 2 high shots from dogs players and no sinbin! It stinks! So over the refs and bunker who are so bloody inconsistent!!

yes
Warriors dogs game
How SC and king are not sent off for 10 It's a joke
You can see dogs have been given the green light this year
Gus has the NRL scared

 

[Captain Moondog]

I'm Important...Cogito Ergo Sumthing

 

[davohan123]

 

[The Insomniac]

Yep the fix is in for the spoonfinal next week.

Or perhaps in 2 weeks.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

Up 16-0 and the tigers get the next 6/7 penalties including the sin-bin of Bullemor. The game managing has become so noticeable that when you get to a lead you get nervous knowing the refs will get involved by giving the team on the receiving end plenty of penalties and the rub of the green. The way the game is these days penalty after penalty and sin-bin after sin-bin ends up tiring your defence which makes it impossible to get back into the game.

Yet our esteemed coach says very little on the matter. Show some passion for the club. Show our players you care beyond a pay check. Call out the blatant massaging of the game. Just do something. Pay the 10k just to show you have something about you.

It's funny in that I liken playing NRL a bit like the armed forces without the threat of death obviously. For those young men and women to put their lives on the line to do what they need to do they need a leader. A commander who garners respect. Someone they believe in. Obviously looking at the coaching stocks over last 20 years which coaches have had 90% of the success?
Bellemy
Des
Robinson
Flanagan
McGuire and Bennett.

If you look at that list what do they all have in common? A ruthless streak and an ability to Lead.

Seibold has none of those qualities. He may be a very good technical coach but he's not a leader.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Yet our esteemed coach says very little on the matter. Show some passion for the club. Show our players you care beyond a pay check. Call out the blatant massaging of the game. Just do something. Pay the 10k just to show you have something about you.

It's funny in that I liken playing NRL a bit like the armed forces without the threat of death obviously. For those young men and women to put their lives on the line to do what they need to do they need a leader. A commander who garners respect. Someone they believe in. Obviously looking at the coaching stocks over last 20 years which coaches have had 90% of the success?
Bellemy
Des
Robinson
Flanagan
McGuire and Bennett.

If you look at that list what do they all have in common? A ruthless streak and an ability to Lead.

Seibold has none of those qualities. He may be a very good technical coach but he's not a leader.

I don’t get why people want Seibold to speak his mind at the press conferences, the NRL Don’t want coaches or players to have free speech at the conferences hence the fines, it isn’t capped at 10K it can be higher.

I thought he handled it well and put accountability back on the players, if he did speak freely imagine the wrath of further poor decisions coming the clubs way from officials, nobody remembers the poor officiating of games at seasons end, the NRL only cares about dollars not the coaches careers that they tarnish along with players being denied of playing finals football.

 

[Disco]

Blowing our challenge early really came back to bite us. Give a weak idiot like Gough a chance to call it however he likes without being challenged and he’ll do it, by far the worst referee in the game alongside Chris Butler

Oh yeah this annoyed the hell out of me.

What stupidity to use our challenge 90 seconds in.

 

[Damien2812]

Yet our esteemed coach says very little on the matter. Show some passion for the club. Show our players you care beyond a pay check. Call out the blatant massaging of the game. Just do something. Pay the 10k just to show you have something about you.

It's funny in that I liken playing NRL a bit like the armed forces without the threat of death obviously. For those young men and women to put their lives on the line to do what they need to do they need a leader. A commander who garners respect. Someone they believe in. Obviously looking at the coaching stocks over last 20 years which coaches have had 90% of the success?
Bellemy
Des
Robinson
Flanagan
McGuire and Bennett.

If you look at that list what do they all have in common? A ruthless streak and an ability to Lead.

Seibold has none of those qualities. He may be a very good technical coach but he's not a leader.

True but I think Penn doesn't want Seibold to speak his mind because he doesn't want to pay the fine.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

I don’t get why people want Seibold to speak his mind at the press conferences, the NRL Don’t want coaches or players to have free speech at the conferences hence the fines, it isn’t capped at 10K it can be higher.

I thought he handled it well and put accountability back on the players, if he did speak freely imagine the wrath of further poor decisions coming the clubs way from officials, nobody remembers the poor officiating of games at seasons end, the NRL only cares about dollars not the coaches careers that they tarnish along with players being denied of playing finals football.

Cement truck anyone. How about there needs to be an investigation? Done right it transcends the game and or season. Seibold is a cat that's landed with a pretty good roster that could do something. We just need more from a pretty Blah manager.

 

[The Who]

Oh yeah this annoyed the hell out of me.

What stupidity to use our challenge 90 seconds in.

But the ball went 10 metres backwards. It was knocked backwards by a defender. It was the cheating Clunker that agreed with the cheating ref that it was this mythological "loose carry". There is nothing in the rule book to say how tight you have to grip the ball. If the ball goes backwards it is play-on.

 

[Ned]

rockstars lol

 

[bringbackbeaver]

Somewhere along the line, the refs got it in their head that they are also playing the game. The best ref is the one we barely notice. Sounds harsh, but we don’t watch footy to see how well a ref officiates.
This obsession with making the game faster. Hate the 6 again with a passion. Much prefer a 16-12 than a 36-32 game.
If someone doesn’t punt GA soon , the game will surely die.

 

[globaleagle]

It's like round and round we go...

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-referees-bosses-bill-harrigan-and-stuart-raper-keep-their-jobs-after-review-but-still-under-scrutiny/news-story/831479a848d0208fef1a7e5dd04cca8a

(2012)

UNDER-fire NRL referees boss Bill Harrigan and his assistant Stuart Raper will retain their jobs for now, but the ARL Commission have confirmed they are under scrutiny.

ARL football operations manager Nathan McGuirk announced today a review was getting underway into the game's match official operations.

Harrigan and Raper have been under heavy pressure over the standard of refereeing in 2012 and the Daily Telegraph reported exclusively today they'd lost the faith of senior referees.

 

[master blaster]

Read Dessie,s take on the refs, he is spot on....its on the Foxsports website. I tried to copy and paste but for som unknown reason it didnt work

 

[globaleagle]

Read Dessie,s take on the refs, he is spot on....its on the Foxsports website. I tried to copy and paste but for som unknown reason it didnt work

The refs realise a manly fan was trying to copy and paste it, so they rang their bosses, foxtel, and put a stop to it!

I'll hack the site and give it a go.

 

[globaleagle]

Read Dessie,s take on the refs, he is spot on....its on the Foxsports website. I tried to copy and paste but for som unknown reason it didnt work

‘Nervous individuals’: Hasler lashes state of officiating after Bunker’s drama-filled weekend

‘Nervous individuals’: Hasler lashes state of officiating after Bunker’s drama-filled weekend

www.foxsports.com.au

Titans coach Des Hasler is of the belief that there is plenty of “nervousness” and “confusion” among the NRL refereeing ranks following a drama-filled Round 25.

Following the Titans’ 48-22 loss to the Roosters, Hasler shared his opinion on the state of officiating in the game, specifically over the inconsistency of the policing of high tackles.

“There was something like 18 penalties today. There’s not a lot of confidence at the moment with players and their interpretation around what’s a high shot and what isn’t,” Hasler said.

“There are a lot of nervous individuals at the moment you can kind of see it with the officialdom.

“Who’s running the officials? The officials are down on confidence at the moment and it’s something we have to address pretty quickly heading into finals.”

On Friday night, Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton escaped a sin bin despite a clear high shot on Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.

Crichton’s shoulder collected Tuivasa-Sheck in the head, forcing the Warriors veteran from the field with a concussion.

Crichton was later hit with a grade two careless high tackle charge by the NRL

The controversial call came just 24 hours after three Manly players were softly binned against the Tigers on Thursday night when the Bunker took a completely different approach to headhigh contact.

During his officiating spiel, Hasler raised another incident involving Souths star Cam Murray.

The Rabbitohs skipper was initially only penalised for a clear high shot on Newcastle’s Tyson Frizell before the Bunker got in the ear of referee Chris Butler to advise he should be giving Murray his marching orders.

“I’ve got every confidence in (ARLC Chairman) Peter (V’landys) and (NRL CEO) Andrew (Abdo), but it’s something we need to address as there’s a lot of confusion,” Hasler said.

“We need to be really confident about that part of the game because there were a lot of penalties today and a lot of players put on report.

“Anyway that’s my piece. We’ll see where it goes.”

 

[master blaster]

‘Nervous individuals’: Hasler lashes state of officiating after Bunker’s drama-filled weekend

‘Nervous individuals’: Hasler lashes state of officiating after Bunker’s drama-filled weekend

www.foxsports.com.au

Titans coach Des Hasler is of the belief that there is plenty of “nervousness” and “confusion” among the NRL refereeing ranks following a drama-filled Round 25.

Following the Titans’ 48-22 loss to the Roosters, Hasler shared his opinion on the state of officiating in the game, specifically over the inconsistency of the policing of high tackles.

“There was something like 18 penalties today. There’s not a lot of confidence at the moment with players and their interpretation around what’s a high shot and what isn’t,” Hasler said.

“There are a lot of nervous individuals at the moment you can kind of see it with the officialdom.

“Who’s running the officials? The officials are down on confidence at the moment and it’s something we have to address pretty quickly heading into finals.”

On Friday night, Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton escaped a sin bin despite a clear high shot on Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.

Crichton’s shoulder collected Tuivasa-Sheck in the head, forcing the Warriors veteran from the field with a concussion.

Crichton was later hit with a grade two careless high tackle charge by the NRL

The controversial call came just 24 hours after three Manly players were softly binned against the Tigers on Thursday night when the Bunker took a completely different approach to headhigh contact.

During his officiating spiel, Hasler raised another incident involving Souths star Cam Murray.

The Rabbitohs skipper was initially only penalised for a clear high shot on Newcastle’s Tyson Frizell before the Bunker got in the ear of referee Chris Butler to advise he should be giving Murray his marching orders.

“I’ve got every confidence in (ARLC Chairman) Peter (V’landys) and (NRL CEO) Andrew (Abdo), but it’s something we need to address as there’s a lot of confusion,” Hasler said.

“We need to be really confident about that part of the game because there were a lot of penalties today and a lot of players put on report.

“Anyway that’s my piece. We’ll see where it goes.”

Thank you Master Globiwan lol. He is right, half of those high tackles on the weekend and thursday night, shouldnt have been called high tackles