POST GAME 2026 State of Origin

The Strapper said:
This won't happen but I would like Ponga to contest the charge. There is plenty of evidence to suggest it wasn't a send off.
They should also call the bunker ref to give evidence and state what he said to Klein at the time ( we all have a pretty good idea of that).
Naturally the NRL will double down and Ponga will lose but that will just prove how corrupt the officiating of the game was.
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Getting the bunker transcript would be all ****ing time... that would be great
 
1910 said:
What a weird point to make, not at all relevant. They are very similar and should have both been a non-send off- that was the point.
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Dropping in height is a mitigating factors... how is where Coates is at contact not a relevant point that you always choose to ignore
 
JayPee said:
I can't remember how much force there was in it because I was blind drunk and haven't rewatched last years grand final but saw a still shot on twitter today and Reece Walsh going on Pongas tackle should have been sent off and then sent to jail for 2 weeks based on the shoulder contact if Ponga was sent off and he didnt even go to the bin.

I know Coates wasnt knocked out and maybe Walsh was lucky to escape a binning but you are better off siding on the lighter side during a game. I know he didnt wrap his arm but everybody knows what a send off is. That wasnt it. It was more of a head clash than direct shoulder contact. It wasnt Greg Inglis on Dean Young.

You have to take the emotion out of it and Klein got emotional. Even the Bunker was telling him its only a sin bin because of mitigating factors. He is away from the emotion in a box. You have to trust him.
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Dude ....
Tucking your arm and then hitting with the shoulder to the head . Is not the same as making a legit tackle and the running dropping / ducking into the tackle .
Wrapping the arms protects the ball runner from whip lash to a degree and that`s why you can tackle a guy as he kicks but you can`t push him .
Same with late hits on play makers in the back . Whip lash . It does damage to the neurological system like concussion .
 
1910 said:
No they weren't NRL banned it two years before.
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OK .
Were players being sanctioned ie suspended or sent off before the tragedy ?

I think that changed the way the rules were applied .
 
BroncsFan said:
Getting the bunker transcript would be all ****ing time... that would be great
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I just heard on Kevvies pod cast there are no suspensions during Origin .
Only fines . Kaylin fined 23 % of his match fee .
 
BroncsFan said:
Dropping in height is a mitigating factors... how is where Coates is at contact not a relevant point that you always choose to ignore
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Koula's knee is on the ground, he is in the exact same position as Coates.

You're welcome to think they have nothing in common and both should be a sendoff; but I think they are similar and should have had a similar result. Which it turns out they did both a fine.
 
Big Del said:
Dude ....
Tucking your arm and then hitting with the shoulder to the head . Is not the same as making a legit tackle and the running dropping / ducking into the tackle .
Wrapping the arms protects the ball runner from whip lash to a degree and that`s why you can tackle a guy as he kicks but you can`t push him .
Same with late hits on play makers in the back . Whip lash . It does damage to the neurological system like concussion .
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Im not saying they are the same I am basing it off the actual contact of both players shoulders to the head which Klein rambled on about consistently for a minute while they were talking upstairs. Of course Pongas was worse overall. I still dont think it was a send off. He would have got 2 weeks if the rules were normal like club land. A send off should be like a 4 week plus suspension in my book. Now maybe people think Klein got it right and the MRP got it wrong.

I watched it again this morning and its worse the more I watch it but I still can't get to the send off spot.
 
In the cold light of the day after, I found Cleary's time wasting on that final kick to be hilarious.

I was ropeable at the time; but it's just a good bit of comedy to stand there for 20 seconds staring at the posts. Then the fake regather. Good stuff all round.
 
mrslong said:
Did anyone else think Munster was a bit of a handbrake in attack, particularly as he got tired. He’d just run like a headless chook. Dearden and Walker have to be the long term halves.
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I thought Munster was great for most of the night. Looked dangerous. In that first 20mins of the 2nd half he fell off but they all looked a bit off with there cohesion. Ponga and Walker also. That was the time they could have really ended it but couldnt land the decisive blow. Was some aimless sets there. Especially on the right. The 2nd 20mins was hard to judge. They were just trying to hold on.
 
Wolfie said:
After watching the incident, i cant see a sending off. I dont even see how Klein from his position could even see it well enough to even make that call.
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Here is his convo with the bunker

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I would like to think Im not a biased qlder but I reckon if I was shown this and it was tedesco I would be saying.... meh he probably deserved to be sent lol feel bipolar.

Every single time I look at it Im less and less outraged. I mean what the **** are you doing mate haha. Walker had him. Just come over the top with your chest. I know its easy to say not on the field in the moment now but damn.
 
JayPee said:
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I would like to think Im not a biased qlder but I reckon if I was shown this and it was tedesco I would be saying.... meh he probably deserved to be sent lol feel bipolar.

Every single time I look at it Im less and less outraged. I mean what the **** are you doing mate haha. Walker had him. Just come over the top with your chest. I know its easy to say not on the field in the moment now but damn.
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I don't think a still shot gives the answer. If you look at the super slomos it looks like shoulder to shoulder, then shoulder to head, then head to head; all within a fraction of a second.

I don't think anyone would argue a sin bin; but a send off it is not.
 
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