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You know it!
GCBRONCO
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With their creative accounting Scott will be paying them so it won't be in the cap.
broncos4life
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Yep.
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Gutherson's captain's challenge loophole to be reviewed: Annesley
Troy WhittakerMon 23 Aug 2021, 06:01 PM
Graham Annesley says the NRL could refine the circumstances under which a captain's challenge can be mounted to prevent the rule being "too loose".
The NRL's head of football flagged an end-of-season review into the intricacies of the rule - for instance, the time limit for challenges to be lodged and the scenarios where they are applicable.
It comes after Eels captain Clint Gutherson appeared to deliberately break down play in the first half of Saturday's win over the Cowboys in order to give away a penalty so he could submit a challenge.
After North Queensland winger Valentine Holmes dived on a loose pass, Gutherson wrestled with his opponent and knocked the ball from his grasp as referee Ashley Klein called held.
Gutherson challenged a knock-on against Holmes but the NRL Bunker instead penalised the Cowboys star for illegally shoving Parramatta hooker Joey Lussick as they jostled for possession.
The Eels then advanced downfield and scored a couple of sets later. Klein warned Gutherson he would have been sin-binned for deliberately breaking down the play had the challenge gone against him, though the fullback denied any gamesmanship.
And there have been several examples of teams winning a challenge despite their reason for calling a review being wrong after the Bunker spotted a separate infringement or error in the play.
Overall, however, Annesley is "comfortable that [captain's challenges are] operating in the way the rule is currently structured".
"These are new rules, they’ve only been in play for a couple of seasons, and I think that we need to review how they’re operating.
"As time passes, sometimes there are parts of a rule where you think, ‘We probably need to tweak that a little bit’.
"But are they operating as they are currently allowed to operate under the rules? Yeah, I think that they are.
"Whether we need to change that or not is something that we need to look at at the end of the season.
"I think there will always be an opportunity to use the rules to your own advantage at times as long as that's not being abused.
"And I think we have to remember the overriding intention of captain’s challenges is to try and get decisions right.
"We need to find that happy balance between allowing players to challenge if they think the referee’s got a decision wrong, but then not having the scope so wide that we're going back and challenging things that we've moved on from, for example."
Annesley believes the rule could use some tightening up but pointed out that "every circumstance is different".
"If the footage from the Bunker is inconclusive, it doesn't change the decision but you don't lose your challenge," he added.
"I think that's probably perfectly reasonable. Now some people would say, 'Well, if your challenge doesn't show that you were right in your challenge, then you should lose it anyway'.
"But again, we're trying to get these decisions right. It's not a matter of trying to take challenges off teams because you'd like to think when they use them, we need to use them."
Gutherson's captain's challenge loophole to be reviewed: Annesley
NRL head of football Graham Annesley says there will be an end-of-season review into the intricacies of the captain's challenge rule.
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Financeguy
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I hope so, the guy is a plodder
mrslong
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I'm all for it if they cannibalise the Melbourne Storm fans (85% of which reside in South East Qld), but we all know that's not how this plays out.
mrslong
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I don't know why, but I just assumed they told him they were going to put him into a coma. Poor guy woke up 5 days later not knowing where he was or what had happenned. That's so scary!
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C’ mon, we all know Broncos have a massive advantage in having the whole of Brisbane to recruit from and absolutely no other NRL team is allowed to sign anyone from this region, particularly young up and comers…
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Major coup for Sunshine State as NRL Grand Final secured
Deal 'all but done' to host league's big night
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"A deal is all-but done, and it looks like Suncorp Stadium will host this year's NRL Grand Final," Nine News Queensland's Peter Fegan said. "The deal just needs to be finalised and signed off on.
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according to Kurt Mann, Anthony Seibold has taken over the defense coaching at the Knights 
although here is an interesting stat:
the Knights are averaging 27.2 missed tackles per game (4th best in comp)
last year their missed tackle average was less at 26.5 per game (but was the 10th best in the comp)
although here is an interesting stat:
the Knights are averaging 27.2 missed tackles per game (4th best in comp)
last year their missed tackle average was less at 26.5 per game (but was the 10th best in the comp)
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