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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3263415, member: 9052"] The earliest I can remember for corruption in the game was at least 2014 when the bunnies were gifted a fairytale.. some of the most biased officiating I've ever seen. That was then followed by manufacturing of results for cowboys and broncos games. Prior to the 6 agains it was so easy to identify the manufacturing that a ref would do... if the team was behind every 50/50 would go their way until they got back into the game to create 'a close contest'. This was easy... ball comes out it's either a strip penalty or dropped ball depending on which team is behind (no challenge so you can't argue against it), drop outs or 20m taps depending on what the team needs, try/no try depending on what team needs it (this was more on grounding the ball or held up... usually the bunker doesn't have a view so just has to go with whatever the onfield ref goes with), forward passes, offsides, hand on the ball penalties, etc. etc. etc. everything is at the discretion of the ref so he can control every single result if he wants to. Since the 6 agains close contests are manufactured by the ref just not awarding anything... force the two teams to just slog it out back-to-back-to-back and kicking from one end to the other. The game grinds to a halt, teams become so fatigued from the back and forth that no attacking play is put on at all and the game becomes a low scoring bore. Which of course Buzz and his cronies cream themselves over. All other 6 again games are pretty well won by whichever team is smarter or cheats the most: - There are zero repercussions for laying all over the ruck and slowing it to a crawl - Zero repercussions for being offside all night - Faking HIA's to get free substitutions - Feigning injury results in a penalty better than 50% of the time... this will now get worse with the high tackle crackdown. On the above this started to become a real issue when the judiciary penalty for a crusher was bumped up to a minimum of 1 week for a grade 1. Prior to this an act of foul play missed by the ref could only result in a penalty from the bunker IF the act was serious enough to warrant being put on report. This was effectively used to stop players from diving... a player would dive after getting tapped on the face looking for a high shot penalty. However, whilst the player was pretending to be knocked out or rolling around on the ground, the bunker would check it, see that it was a soft little grazing on the face and tell the player to play the ball. Players really stopped diving when they were forced to go off for a HIA if they feigned concussion. So not only was feigning injury for a high shot now unlikely to get you a penalty (because it wasn't reportable), you could also be off the field for 15mins if you went too far with your acting. After bumping the crusher tackle up, the media (surprise surprise) started complaining about players missing weeks from suspensions for soft penalties "should someone miss an origin game or a grand final for that?!?" .... so to avoid this scrutiny the refs now blow a penalty as soon as the player holds their neck. Why? so it doesn't go to the bunker, because that would result in the player going on report, which then leads to players being suspended for soft tackles/total accidents and uproar from NSWRL media. Players will now just hold their head/nose/chin and because of the new directive the bunker will be required to put the player on report. Refs will want to avoid this and will blow a penalty as soon someone tells the ref his nose has been touched... they won't want to risk the bunker putting them on report or possibly send them to the bin all the time We saw the danger very briefly in last night's game when Herbie got us a penalty after being hit high on a get out set.... this will be the ultimate goal of get out sets "feign injury if anything comes near your head to get the penalty".... the manly player started rubbing his head when he was caught in goal trying to get a penalty. Be prepared for even more diving from now on [/QUOTE]

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