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"Rubbish. Have a look at the lopsideed scores the whole round. Manly had 11 mins straight of possession before Canberra got the ball. The NRL has called for this type of officiating and many teams were not ready for it. If you put teams under…"
"Good news, Storm targeted our unorganised left side really well. Pezet was their first target, once they got him the domino of Kelly and Russell fell quite easily. Although, Storm really got us through the ruck all night as that's where their…"
"TDS is not first grade level. Do not pick players who are not up to it. Joash is a fullback, do not pick players out of position.Walker is going to have to cover Smith for his rests. Walker is off contract, he will rise to the occasion."
"TolEllts, Great point. Once momentum kept going against us, we just had no answers. We lost our way. The ref was never going to let us win that game, but we could've avoided that huge blowout. And not get bullied as much.
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When you lose by 50, you can't blame the refs for losing. However the refereeing was diabolical and should still be scrutinised. Chris Butler in particular needs to be held to account for his performance. 1st of all the knock on call that we challenged. Complete and utter incompetence at best. And secondly the Iongi head high not getting penalised. There's absolutely no excuse for the bunker to get those 2 calls so fundamentally wrong
Problem is while not changing the overall result in terms of win or lose, the terrible decisions often happen at crucial times, completely changing the momentum during that smaller period of the game. So often, just when a team is fighting their way back into the set for set arm wrestle, a diabolical decision just bursts the bubble.
That's nothing new though right I mean sticky was saying his team made 60 odd tackles before his team saw the ball and still came back and won.It feels like you could go to almost any contest any week and pick apart these wild inconsistencies within the bunker especially.IMO they need to empower the refs more and depower the bunker's decision making.Referees will get decisions wrong they will but I'd prefer that than a multi million dollar multi camera mess and still there getting it wrong alot of the time.I've never been a fan of the bunker and the game isn't played at 20 frames a second.
Exactly. Fans will be less frustrated with the actual referee sometimes getting 50/50 calls wrong. They usually even themselves out. What fans of the game can't cop though, is the bunker getting so many decisions obviously wrong after they have all the time in the world to review. It's just laughable. The NRL would be better off giving the bunker seat to a random fan as a lucky door prize. " OK fans, the bunker official for tonight will be" ...... drumroll... " Bay 221, Row G, seat 37 - Congratualtions and make your way to......"
They could not do a worse job than what we see from the bunker every game🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
We keep talking about the great Raiders come back after being down early 14-0. You know what helped? Raiders got 5-straight six-agains after the 8th min after Manly's lead. Every restart till fulltime, bar one. Restarts are worse than penalties because of the fatigue level and the defence doesn't have time to reset and get a breather.
Restarts
01:42 – Sea Eagles
02:24 – Sea Eagles
07:51 – Sea Eagles
08:12 – Sea Eagles
16:00 Sea Eagles 14-0
19:34 – Raiders
24:01 – Raiders
25:46 – Raiders
31:57 – Raiders
48:08 – Raiders
48:00 Sea Eagles 14-12 Raiders comeback
72:44 – Sea Eagles
Check play by play at https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiership/2026/round-1/sea-eagles-v-...
HOE - interesting that after blowing the pea out of the whistle for 48 mins (one set restart every 5 mins), there was only one blown in the last 32 minutes of the game. You can't tell me that players all of a sudden became ultra-disciplined.
Iamnot, spot on. Manly get 4-straight restarts. Lead 14-0. Then, Raiders get 5-straight restarts. They come back 14-12. Must be just pure co-incidence it keeps happening...
I used to think refs were just used as an excuse by coaches, but nowadays I'm starting to agree with them especially in the V'landys' restarts universe without accountability.
The thing I have found interesting was when I did some digging on Kearney. It was brought up how Ryles is now Kearney, I came to see in 42 games as coach we only conceded 50 once under him.
in 25 games with Ryles 3 times. But also 6 again rule has made it that there are more higher scores. Thats how this rule has changed the game in that you look at more teams putting 50 on due to momentum being created purely from referee discretion not from skills of the attacking team.
Do we still lose on Thursday if 6 again wasn't a thing? Absolutely. Do we have 52 put on us? Not so sure.
Different game and different rules it's hard to compare really.
What I will say Kearney never amounted to much as a head coach and probably was just an assistant at best.
It has always been a blight on this great game, it was never for slowing down the ruck it has always been for the 1's in charge manipulating the game. At the beginning they always showed why the six again was given than all of a sudden it stopped because people started relising it was rubbish and just complete cheating of those in charge.
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