Super Freak
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- Jan 25, 2014
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NRL have always been reactive.
They will never be proactive by the looks of it.
They will never be proactive by the looks of it.
ABC grandstand were just slamming the NRL for the fact that Josh Reynolds wont miss a game for his 3rd trip in the last 2 seasons.
They have said that the NRL are basically saying tripping is a legal act.
But when someone breaks a leg because they were tripped, only then will the NRL have a problem with it.
This is why I'm all for the video ref being able to step in whenever it sees something. I hate the "let the game flow, if the refs miss it, too bad". It's for instances like this where the video ref should tip off the on-field ref and Reynolds gets marched.
This is why I'm all for the video ref being able to step in whenever it sees something. I hate the "let the game flow, if the refs miss it, too bad". It's for instances like this where the video ref should tip off the on-field ref and Reynolds gets marched.
Such a good article!!!! Though he will probably be sanctioned for bringing the game into disrepute despite them having no power over the writer. The NRL has become a joke...well an even worse one. There seem to be very few people in positions that matter that are all that competent. It is my biggest gripe with this great game and they are right, they are turning fans away from the game.
I was watching Manly vs Newcastle yesterday (Newcastle is my second team and always has been as I have strong connections to the area) and turned to my better half and admitted I really couldn't care less about the NRL anymore. Don't get me wrong, I will always support the Broncos and watch every single game of theirs I can but just have no interest in any other games anymore. I used to live and breathe league, even when living overseas but now, well I just don't really care anymore unless the Broncs are playing. But even then, I know there are just going to be an endless supply of mind-blowing decisions that will most likely ruin the game one way or another. Even if Newcastle (my second team) were doing well, I still just wouldn't care anymore. It makes my blood boil how much this great game is being destroyed little by little.
To be fair it seems like every club is on the ass-end of poor refereeing decisions recently, it doesn't seem to be biased, they just don't know how to do their job consistently.
The game won't move forward until they fix whatever is hindering the decision making, you never hear about refereeing blunders in AFL or Union, or any other sports for that matter, apart from maybe Cricket with the occasional DRS **** up.
Raelene and Greenturd will probably still find a way to get his charge downgraded...I think Reynolds will have to break someones leg before they come down hard on him for tripping
You have captured exactly how I feel. I just don't care about the NRL anymore. I will always watch the Broncos games and will always support them, but I just don't like the NRL anymore and at this point even if they did make the changes the need to I'm not sure I will ever get that passion back. I think it really hit home how little I now care when the Eseese NO TRY happened. Usually that would have me rant about everything from the incompetence of the refs, right through to suggesting they are on the take, but my wife turned to me when that didn't happened and asked "wasn't I upset" and I realised then that I just couldn't give a shit anymore. Nothing ever changes and it never will and as fans there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
After watching almost every game (95% of them I even watched twice) over the last 10 years, I didn't watch any games this weekend except the Broncos game and I can't see that changing any time soon. If I wasn't watching rugby league I was talking about it, but not anymore. Apart from on here, Broncos fans aren't allowed to have a negative opinion on reffing and the NRL due to whatever benefits we apparently receive. Fans are happy to see us get ****ed around by shitty decisions because their clubs are terribly run. **** them, **** the NRL, **** State of Origin, **** the international game.
This sport could have been huge..
Wow you gentleman missed out on a cracking 90 minutes of Rugby League tonight.