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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2853859, member: 8315"] Great discussion happening the last few hours guys. Loving all these posts. That's a damn good question [USER=8988]@Thelmus[/USER] Personally, I don't care if sending a player off for an illegal tackle impinges on the result. They've done the wrong thing. They know the rules. If they cost their team a win with a bone headed tackle that has been outlawed for years then so be it. More importantly, the result, the time on the clock, whether it's 13 on 13 or not should be the furthest thing from the referee's mind. It's interesting to note the aftermath of the SBW red card the other night. Not much outcry at all. It was dangerous. It was unnecessary. It was an easy decision. Tell your fucking story walking, Sonny Bill. Nothing like that exists in our game. Instead we have this toxic mentality of 'aw hell, it didn't look that bad.' So if it looks fairly innocuous and doesn't cause an injury then that's all good. That's like saying it's okay to speed as long as you don't cause an accident or kill someone. Imagine if SBW was still in our game and did that tackle. Imagine if a referee (say Cecchin or Sutton for example) sent him off. The outcry would be enormous. It's a fucking blight on Rugby League which leads me to my next point. The commentators and media personalities in Rugby League are doing enormous damage to the code. Gould, Rothfield, Kent - the game has passed them by. they need to move on if they care about Rugby League. It's a different world. Column inches need filling. A 24 hour NRL channel needs content and referees are a soft target to fill that space. I mean, we can't have drug scandals and match fixing allegations every week can we? We need to empower our referees. We need them to referee Rugby League in a good spirit and to hell with what makes good television or not. [/QUOTE]

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