NRL Finals Week 1

[Aucklander]

Really they should replay the match. But of course they won't.

Checkin and Perenara should be stood down for the rest of the year. There simply is no excuse for that sort of stuff up.

 

[moto748]

Agreed.

Incidentally, there was a BOD call in the Warrington game yesterday where the ref/video ref couldn't really see if a defender had got underneath the ball to prevent a try or not. That has rightly gone in the NRL, and I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's really Mickey Mouse to have different rules in England and Australia. It makes our sport look a joke. Suppose they did that in cricket or football?

 

[Aucklander]

I thought that wasn't a try even under BOD, but agree the rules should align in GB, Aus and NZ.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Petitions to have the Cowboys reinstated are over the top. The 7 tackle try happened early in the game. When the ref called tackle 4 instead of 5, the Sharks used the extra tackle. Too much sliding doors to know what they would have done had tackle 5 been called instead. You see dubious decisions that gift teams an extra set of 6 all the time. Sharks were gifted an extra tackle only and still had to move the ball the entire length of the ground in that set. Cowboys probably should have been looking at their own defence. Nobody was out of position thinking the set was over. Terrible by the refs, but had the Cowboys not let in that last Sharks try, we would barely be discussing this.

Unlucky but ... reinstatement or replay based on an early game error? Hell, we'd be replaying games all over the place if we let that precedent unfold.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Still struggling to see how not one but FOUR people on the field plus THREE in the video ref box can't count to 6. This is the most basic skill, every single person, ref/touch judge and VR should be sacked from the rest of the series!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Still struggling to see how not one but FOUR people on the field plus THREE in the video ref box can't count to 6. This is the most basic skill, every single person, ref/touch judge and VR should be sacked from the rest of the series!

Don't think the touch judges are required to count the tackles and it wasn't sent upstairs for those in the box to do anything. Also they might have thought that the first tackle was called a zero tackle as if the Cowboys had turned it over with their last play. Only the refs have no excuse.

 

[DrKrieger]

It's kind of strange. A week earlier just under 60k fronted up for the game v Roosters, then a week later a very ordinary crowd v the Storm. Not good.

37k for a do or die game at ANZ. Not much to crow about either.

Wasn't there a game in previous finals where manly supporters were too lazy to catch a train to anz to watch their team in finals, I seem to recall the club trying to get the game moved to manly?

They get decent numbers at origin, funny how a side show is more popular than the series.

Devastated by that end to the cowboys season, as has been said there isn't much you can do after the fact, but that doesn't give justice to the cowboys. Maybe they need a coach initiated review system like the cricket/tennis one, Neil Henry was saying someone next to him picked up the 7 tackles almost straight away.

 

[JMan5]

Checkin and Perenara should be stood down for the rest of the year. There simply is no excuse for that sort of stuff up.

Even if the refs get stood down it won't change anything for the Cowboys. The NRL said that they can't take points away from any team or change results. That's funny considering the Storm lost premierships.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Flanagan is on the attack after Thurston's outburst:

''They kicked the ball into us and the referees said we played at it but we didn't, and they got an extra whole set of six. It was in the first half and they kicked the ball into the back of Jeff Robson. They get six again and are attacking our try line, but do we blow up if they scored a try from that set? Those things happen all the way through a game. We had to be good enough to score a try off it too.

''Yeah, we shouldn't have had seven tackles but it's human error. There are human errors right through the game. I heard it was a Sydney conspiracy because they want Souths-Roosters grand final but I don't know what that has to do with our game.''


Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/thurston-calls-foul-over-error-blames-sydney-push-20130915-2tsww.html#ixzz2f0RdK5iY​

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Even if the refs get stood down it won't change anything for the Cowboys. The NRL said that they can't take points away from any team or change results. That's funny considering the Storm lost premierships.

The Storm did something wrong. The Sharks did nothing wrong in that match to deserve to have the result changed. Do you think the game would have unfolded exactly the same way if the tackle count had been called correctly? What would the Sharks have done on the last tackle instead of running and tacking the tackle? What about the dodgy call that the Sharks had played at the ball, that got the Cowboys an extra set of 6. They didn't score from it but they had 6 extra tackles, not 1. Maybe the Sharks could have scored from that set of 6 if they had the ball? You have to remember that the 7th tackle wasn't on the Cowboys goal line. The Sharks had to make something happen to get there.

It's a bad blunder at any level, but the Cowboys need to blame their defence at the time, and then again, when they held the lead with 10 minutes to go. To go back and retrospectively blame a call early in the game when you have heaps of time to rectify it, and then suggest the result should be overturned is fanciful. I'd be pissed no doubt, but it's not quite the be all and end all that people are building it up to be.

The AFL changed a result in the Sirengate game but there was no time left in that game, and nobody would have done anything different to what they did so the Sliding Doors pondering can not be applied.

I'd be more concerned that the Sharks are playing finals at all, given what is hanging over their head. As a fan, I have a hard time getting too enthused, because if we did pull off a miracle, it'll probably be stripped away once ASADA is finished.

 

[royboy2]

Just beat Manly and everybody will be happy

 

[royboy2]

People can make up their own mind.

For me no eyes for the ball only Waqa, a fair way out from the line. Clearly dangerous. A possible contrary conduct charge.

No case to answer

Sisa Waqa set to play in NRL final as Souths pair avoid judiciary sanction



South Sydney duo Dylan Farrell and Roy Asotasi are free to play in the preliminary final after they escaped charges from the match review committee.
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Newcastle's Matt Hilder attracted a grade one careless high tackle charge for his attempt on Canterbury's Mitch Brown but will be free to play Melbourne whether he accepts or contests the charge.

Bulldogs skipper Michael Ennis also attracted the same charge but won't miss a game as a result. Melbourne winger Waqa will surprisingly be available for the Storm's NRL elimination final against Newcastle after being cleared of a serious neck injury.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/sisa-waqa-set-to-play-in-nrl-final-as-souths-pair-avoid-judiciary-sanction-20130916-2tu08.html#ixzz2f2Bu0462​

 

[LukeParkerno1]

People can make up their own mind.

For me no eyes for the ball only Waqa, a fair way out from the line. Clearly dangerous. A possible contrary conduct charge.

You were saying....not charged and rightly so. Was an accident, penalty was sufficient!

 

[Aucklander]

You were saying

People could make up their own mind. My mind still says he had no eyes for the ball and it was his decision to make contact with the legs which caused the fall. If that's now play on, no case to answer then so be it. Knowing the NRL that will most likely change next time.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

People could make up their own mind. My mind still says he had no eyes for the ball and it was his decision to make contact with the legs which caused the fall. If that's now play on, no case to answer then so be it. Knowing the NRL that will most likely change next time.

My view was that it was a penalty but absolutely no need for anymore than that especially as Waga is fine and if fit to play.

 

[Aucklander]

My view was that it was a penalty but absolutely no need for anymore than that especially as Waga is fine and if fit to play.

I'm certainly glad he's good to go, could so easily have ended up in a wheelchair.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I'm certainly glad he's good to go, could so easily have ended up in a wheelchair.

Yes but none of that was Farrell's fault, it was just a small bump. Sure a penalty for landing on his head but that was an accident

 

[bradrowe#32]

 

[eddiesmith]

The AFL changed a result in the Sirengate game but there was no time left in that game, and nobody would have done anything different to what they did so the Sliding Doors pondering can not be applied.

Wonder if the NRL would have reversed the result if the Cowboys scored in the extra minute played at the end? Funny how that gets so little airtime...

As for this 7 tackle crap, I do wonder if the refs simply changed their mind about the tackle count halfway through, it should have been 0 tackle anyway and therefore Sharks got the correct amount of tackles for that set as the Cowboys player dropped the ball