Refereeing in the modern game

General Rugby League
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Well after 2 rounds we see that the officiating hasn’t improved, with the only change being the cancellation of the regular Monday Annesley excuse event.

In our game, there was a clear forward final pass for a chooks try not picked up. Take a look at how far behind the play the touchie was! It wasn’t a try from a long range high speed run with the flaggie being left behind, they were just not up with the play. Maybe the EO policy should consider factors of fitness to carry out duties.

The fiasco in yesterday’s game where there was a clear forward pass that Stevie Wonder would have seen was not called resulting in a ‘try’ was embarrassing to the game. Further embarrassment came when the bunker used another incident on that play to find a reason to rule NO TRY, as they could see the forward pass but can’t rule on a clear breach, but can make up a reason for NO TRY for something that would never have resulted in NO TRY in any other circumstance.

Another worry that has now become endemic is the change after 100 years on awarding of penalty tries. They’ve changed from an absolute 100% certainty of the try being scored as the criteria, to a more likely than not basis. Glad they’re not ruling on capital punishment cases. Officials demonstrate every week that their judgement is very variable, and this adds a further dimension to their influence of the run of the game & possibly the result.

And don’t get me started on the lottery of the “guess agains”.

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102

This is my bug bear, when I want to ping the refs, I try and be as unbiased as possible. I was gob smacked with the Manly v Warriors game, no care about the result (other than having try scorers for both sides lol) I like Adam Gee as a ref, but there must be a message to these guys to try and keep it entertaining, The warriors got at least 4 x 6 agains (love it mrwalker guess agains) in the 1st 20min and most of them were on the 4th tackle…all you get on the tele is ruck infringement or inside the 10. It was a joke if you ask me and cost Manly any hope of momentum after the 1st try was like taking candy from a baby.

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103

Has anyone else noticed the one metre marks on the field seemed to have disappeared? Is this turning into union with free reign on forward passes?

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104

regarding Forward Passes being claimed too hard to rule on, players all wear state-of-the-art GPS locators making their location on the field for team analysis. It’s not hard to also use that live data to mark their position on the field.

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