Enjoyed watching the Penruff v Roosters game last night as the referee gave away few penalties and game flowed.
What I did during the match was count how many seconds it took to release a tackled player once on the ground. By my count it was generally between 3 and 4 seconds and no obvious bias by referee to any team. Some tackles took as little as 2 seconds while others went to 5 seconds - not sure if they were dominant tackles or not.
Now boys and girls your homework for this week is to watch the Eels v Souffs game.
Once the tackled player is on the ground count the seconds until player released by all tacklers.
Particularly look at both teams defending their line and how long referee gives each defending team time to hold down.
Also look for any bias shown by referee.
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You need to differentiate between tackled players who end up on their back. Im guessing a lot more eels players will end up on their back than Souths players.
one thing that really stood out was in the manly and Melbourne were half a dozen or more times the game was stopped for the attacking player moving of his mark for the play the ball from memory these calls only spanned the 1st 15 min of the 2nd 1/2 despite this happening the whole game and in every other game of the weekend and not being called.
The consistancy of the refereeing is horrible, hell the video ref couldn't even rule on the knock on against Newcastle despite it being as clear as day
Video referees are a blight on the game, have all the time in the world and countless replays, unlike the ground referees, and still manage to stuff up. Didn't see Penruff no try but commentators thought it was a fair try.
Kram still wanting to know what first 3 penalties were for as saw nothing wrong and players appeared to get off tackled player quickly enough.
It really helps to have the momentum in both attack and defence to be on the right side of the penalties. Once you are on the back foot, the refs are watching for any little thing.
So I think the time allowed for hold downs is influenced by how much the defensive team is struggling to hold the attacking team. The more you struggle, the less time you get to hold them down.
Plus of course the refs hate Parra.
The refs cant be trusted to get most calls right. The less interpretation and the more black or white rules the better for boys in pink.
Heck maybe they should introduce female refs. May be a little better at being fair.