First 30 Minutes of the games, Dogs are up in the penalty count 4-0. Nearly all penalties are for holding on in the tackle too long. (One of the only "subjective" penalties where the referee has the liberty to decide what is "too long"). Nearly all 4 penalties were in the bulldogs own half piggybacking them up the field.
Last 10 minutes of the first half, 3 penalties to the eels, (Credit to COCO for calling this), 1 of those penalties was after eels had already earned a repeat set off a kick, and the other two were already in the dogs half.
Second half, First 25-30 mins, good game, not that much officiating, a few good breaks by both sides.
Last 15 mins, Knock on call against Hayne after a half break down the field - T-Rex and James Graham in the tackle T-Rex clearly rakes the ball on replay.
Sandow kicks 40/20 - oh sorry, wrong ball, or not played off the ground or whatever fucking excuse you want. No try. At the end of the day, why bother having a quick tap rule if you can't take a quick tap!?!? Especially when it is such a BS excuse!!!
The only consolation I take out of this was that a.) in the first half we had maybe 2 real attacking opportunities and scored both times b.) we're playing at Parra next week and we have Junior Paulo and Peni Terepo coming back.
The NRL replays don't even show the controversial call following the 40/20. What sort of coverup is this?
Even my staunch shark supporter of a mate texted me straight after the game: "Absolutely ridiculous. FFS bad calls. The refs were completely one sided" My mate from manly texted: "The quick tap rule is a bit of a joke hey? Dave Smith is an idiot"
CongrataFUCKINGlations to the NRL
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(Sarcasm) of course!!!!
absolutely, penalties for holding in the tackle are so ambiguous. Surely the penalty that was called held on gower when he made his break for the line should have been sin bin for a professional foul if thats the way they interpret held rules. We would have scored next play but got the penalty instead.