I will give Kevvie credit, he has them playing much better. Still don’t understand picking Coates, who I thought was once again a liability. Kennedy was dreadful, the mistakes are just far too frequent, tonight he cost us the game.
The refereeing was shambolic, the roosters were offside all night and I can’t remember getting a set restart for inside the 10. There were times Klein was actually calling out roosters players by name and despite them still being directly involved in the play he still didn’t penalise them.
If that forearm graze by Flegler is the standard for a penalty the game is finished, there are hundreds just like it throughout the whole game that go uncalled, just as this one did - until the bunker got creative… How can they justify going back to the previous play on a challenge against an incorrect PTB? That is soo far removed from what the challenge was supposed to be restricted to. To claim because the PTB wasn’t completed it’s still the same play is ridiculous. It’s a completed tackle, it’s a new PTB, the fact he’s lost it playing it doesn’t change that. Fox basically just ignored it in the post game, but I bet anything had it been the roosters on the other end of it all hell would have broken loose. Annesley probably would have held a press conference straight after the game.
The NRL has honestly never been worse, there’s soo much wrong with it atm, it’s just an absolute mess. The protection racket V’landys is getting from newscorp is impressive, it must have been one hell of a good deal he gave them on the broadcast rights extension, not that we know because he won’t disclose it.
