In the Parra v Dogs match, Hopoate contested a bomb with the Dogs fullback. Hoppa was penalised for making contact with a player in midair. Hoppa was at no stage attempting to take the Dogs player out - he made a fair play for the ball, and the Dogs player landed quite safely.
The commentators, at first mystified, said the penalty was for the "danger factor".
In the Cowboys v Knights match, in the 18th minute, the Cows were attacking and put a bomb up. The Knights fullback jumped for the ball along with a Cowboys defender who made contact. The Knights fullback landed comparatively worse and a Cowboys try ensued on that play.
The referee went to the video ref with an initial "No Try" call to check on the collision. After a typically protracted process, the video ref ruled a fair try to the Cows.
How does this work?
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Farcical.
How anyone could've called that a penalty is beyond me. I was still shaking my head at 3am in my deep sleep.
No matter what anyone says its almost like the pink fairies have it in for the boys in blue and gold.
It was a garbage decision from the ref, his ruling means any attacking player who goes for the ball is in the wrong if he touchers the catcher in the air.
The rules got to be revisited.
As it stands the attacking team may as well not attempt to take the ball at all, and thats very poor for the game.
I don't think there's anything wrong the rules, Snake. Just the fools interpreting them. The ref did not sound real convincing when he told Hoppa it was a dangerous tackle. BA should ask the question of the ref's boss because blatant examples of the Eels (or any of the battling sides for that matter) being dudded should not go unreviewed.
The officials are so thoroughly spooked when someone lands on their head, even if you are executing a fair tackle, they will penalise you.
Yet ANOTHER example of the fact that the officials are sometimes good at following rules but are all at sea when it calls for a bit of common sense.
We need to increase the pay for the referees and then make them truly accountable. I don't mean a round table analysis by your peers on a Monday morning as they have now. They need to be truly accountable.
The MRC , the obvious bias of some officials, the ineptitude of the video refs and the signing of players mid season - it's all killing our great game and something that CAN be fixed.
Fat you are the voice of reason mate but.........increasing the dickheads pay?
FFS these guys need a pay cut they are that shit. I understand your way of thinking. Increase the pay to get better quality people. As the old saying goes `pay peanuts get monkeys` but the problem isn't necessarily just the refs its the NRL and its tinkering of the rules and the softening of the game.
I don't think there is any easy fix tbh but something needs to be done because the refs are deciding games now in the first 10 mins of some games.
You notice, Fathead, when the ref gave four penalties in 3 minutes (I thought it was five but the commentators said four) the ref said we had a discipline problem. All we were doing was scrambling in defence and in chasing the ball. But the ref tipped us off that he went into the match with the preconception Parra has a discipline problem.
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