Has anyone seen Annesley’s regular Monday briefings this year or have they been scrapped?
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‘Self-flagellation’: Why the NRL will no longer put up football boss to explain refereeing calls
Graham Annesley’s Monday briefings to explain the weekend’s refereeing controversies will become a thing of the past, amid growing feeling in league circles the sessions weren’t “a good look” for the game.
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‘Self-flagellation’: Why the NRL will no longer put up football boss to explain refereeing calls
Graham Annesley’s Monday briefings to explain the weekend’s refereeing controversies will become a thing of the past, amid growing feeling in league circles the sessions weren’t “a good look” for the game.www.smh.com.au
So far, with the new interpretation and going with the on-field calls more, the referees seem less controversial. Or at least we are more accepting of 50/50 calls rather than expecting 100% accuracy.‘Self-flagellation’: Why the NRL will no longer put up football boss to explain refereeing calls
Graham Annesley’s Monday briefings to explain the weekend’s refereeing controversies will become a thing of the past, amid growing feeling in league circles the sessions weren’t “a good look” for the game.
Or maybe I’m saying that from the luxury of a lopsided 6 again count and controversial calls going equally both ways.
I get that backing the on-field decision is more politic, as deferring to the guy that is the heat of the match is the right thing to do... means there is less scope for criticism afterwards too, so in general i'm for that - but taking the example of the two Manly tries when both were upheld 'on lack of available evidence to overturn' is exactly the situation which reverses that good-faith. Both were ridiculous calls and in the live game feed there were camera angles (both times the second replay angle from memory) which showed the saab drop and garrick and possibly dce on the touchline - so starts seeming like 'evidence' is being selectively used. For the record, don't think RTS was a double movement and Manly should have had more in the bin for ruck ingringments
Yea, all we want is consistency across games and the season, whether they are being strict or allow leeway.
Personally like it that the attacking team gets the benefit of the doubt.
6 agains are so lame.
In theory they are okay, but application wise they dismiss any form of justification and much like other rules, are applied incredibly inconsistently.
Yeah, I'm pretty much in that camp too, with benefit of doubt - I get why the saab try was called as fair, as 90% of that is planted on the ground, but with the garrick tap back how can the on-field send that up as a try? That then impacts the review - i'd prefer they say something like it's inconclusive from the get go in situations like that and just let video decide
I'm the opposite. I want the Referee being the main man and not having stuff taken out of his hands as much as possible. I thought the Garrick try was fair enough - there was a camera angle showing a line of green between his boot and the line. Saab I get the angst around that one but happy enough as well. I actually enjoy watching the NSW cup games with no bunker and the refs ruling is the ruling - which is closer to where we are heading with the Refs calls being supported more and more
Go with the attacking team unless glaringly obvious.
If we’re having to have slow motion zoom in multiple angles to see if a line is touched, or a ball was dropped or Egan put it down, just keep rewarding the attacking team and over a season people will be happy.
The defence shouldn’t let them get so close as to leave it up to the referee.
I know you're talking about 50/50 calls, but my main issue is consistency.
Maybe considering it from a player welfare angle would yield better results.
Head highs? Penalised Everytime.
Taking the kickers legs out? Penalised Everytime.
Like shit, or get off the pot. Actions are either welcome in the game or they're not.
Allowing them one game and then penalizing them in the next is not going to get this stuff out of the game.
Agree. But there is always grey areas and the human factor.
You just hope in a season they are consistent in the rulings.
Last year we saw glaringly different rulings across the same weekend.
I get that.
I very much cherry picked my examples to prove my point because I think that the officiating is so confused at the moment, that having a zero tolerance attitude to unfair player damaging stuff might atleast bring some consistency and move away from this 'equal penalty count' crap.
High tackles and taking the legs out (I'm just going off the NRLs previously stated stance on this one) are fairly black and white.
Right now there's no real line in the sand, to say. This is the biggest problem, imo.
Maybe the teams should be able to choose between a penalty kick and a six again? I dunno, maybe I'm just being too simplistic in my view.
Sorry, I was specifically talking about try scoring in this instance.
But I agree with you around your points on head highs etc. as always, consistency is the key. Its a fast game with a heap of things for refs to keep an eye on.
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