2024 Season

Thieves Like Us said:
Is it me or has the refereeing in the finals been a lot more liberal than the regular season?
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Finals have been refereed completely differently from regular season games.
Trips, dog shots and letting finals games just run without referee interference to name a few. There is a huge problem with bunker interpretations depending who is in there, making for inconsistent rulings.
 
Lefty said:
Ivan Cleary gave the bunker a well deserved spray last night.

www.smh.com.au

‘Terrible, no understanding’: Abdo annoyed at Cleary’s Bunker outburst

In an explosive start to grand final week, the league has made a decision on the Panthers coach after his criticism of match officials following a controversial call in the preliminary final.
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Well said also. Both him and Bennet well respected and are only calling what they see. The knights v dolphins game was a howler also. This obstruction rule needs to be looked at again if not for the GF, next year.
 
I think there's a real chance they'll take Jackson btw, and not just because Madge and he are close.

You don't hire Madge with a five year plan. You hire him because you think you have the players to win the comp and you want a sugar hit of intensity.

A team that thinks they can win the comp in 2025 won't be turned off by Jacko's off-field stuff in the same way, because that one good year you seem to get out of him could help them a lot. They desperately need someone who can steer them around if Reyno gets hurt again, and he provides cover in other positions too. And he'd be cheap.

I can see them talking themselves into it, especially if it's what the new head coach wants.
 
frankLauda said:
Well said also. Both him and Bennet well respected and are only calling what they see. The knights v dolphins game was a howler also. This obstruction rule needs to be looked at again if not for the GF, next year.
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The obstruction rule has gone against the Knights this year as well.
In the Knights V Dolphins game that “obstruction” would have made no difference to the result imo.
 
Jacko is levels above any QLD half as well, which is why it ****s me he couldn't keep it together with us. If they wanted a reserve half he'd be it, plus i think there is good coin in QLD Cup too.
 
It’s official: the bunker got it wrong in denying the Panthers a try on the weekend.

Annesley has cautioned against overhauling the obstruction rules.

www.nrl.com

'Officials have to make decisions': Annesley concedes bunker error

NRL head of football elite competitions Graham Annesley has cautioned against calls to overhaul obstruction rules despite conceding the bunker got it wrong in disallowing a Penrith try on Saturday night.
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Anyone else think it was an absolute joke that Gagai wasn't even a nominee for centre position in team of the year? I could easily argue that he deserved to be in the starting team alongside Critta. Farnworth was not as consistent across the whole season, he had amazing patches of games especially to end the season. The fact that Holmes, Staggs, and even Ramien were the nominees and not Gags is honestly laughable. Gagai had a better season than them.

Also Sharpe > Lehi but theyre both young guns.
 
I was happy to read the NAS failed to have his suspension downgraded and will now miss 5 games. It was arrogant of the Storm to think they could get a double downgrade in the charge.

Lindsay Collins has undergone 11 head injury assessments in 113 and now failed 5 of them.
 
Lefty said:
I was happy to read the NAS failed to have his suspension downgraded and will now miss 5 games. It was arrogant of the Storm to think they could get a double downgrade in the charge.

Lindsay Collins has undergone 11 head injury assessments in 113 and now failed 5 of them.
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Fair comment. Though I'm in the group who think he should be playing.

It's a GF. There needs to be some way to manage suspensions where regular season rules don't destroy a years worth of work for an entire club because of an accident which didn't result in an injury.

The rules of the NRL isn't astrophysics, we are allowed to change them to form the desired reality. In the case of GFs, it should be treated as a mitigating circumstance.
 
Lefty said:
I was happy to read the NAS failed to have his suspension downgraded and will now miss 5 games. It was arrogant of the Storm to think they could get a double downgrade in the charge.

Lindsay Collins has undergone 11 head injury assessments in 113 and now failed 5 of them.
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Arrogant? Anybody on the planet is going to try and get it downgraded to play in a grand final in that situation.

Interested in @danknights view, given you were shocked it was a sin bin!
 
Les Misérables said:
Fair comment. Though I'm in the group who think he should be playing.

It's a GF. There needs to be some way to manage suspensions where regular season rules don't destroy a years worth of work for an entire club because of an accident which didn't result in an injury.

The rules of the NRL isn't astrophysics, we are allowed to change them to form the desired reality. In the case of GFs, it should be treated as a mitigating circumstance.
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How do you counter and make it fair for the team that lost a player to foul play the week prior then? eg. Collins. The question would really come if you change the rules to allow him to play you actually say the foul play is ok and this could potentially lose the other team a place in the GF.
 
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