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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 2853866, member: 9052"] Have to agree with most things being said in these last few posts. The media is far too influential on reffing due to the headlines they create from errors they perceive to be incorrect. I say perceive because half the time they're complaining about rules which were enforced correctly (mead on tommy t for example). I believe these articles are influencing the refs in game and potentially from the top down i.e. the NRL trying to avoid negative headlines. I hate the leg up penalties that inevitably come to a team that's been getting rightly flogged. If a shit team is getting 30 points put on them because they're shit don't blow the whistle to allow them to get back into it. Momentum and field position is everything in league and creating it artificially through referring decisions is dead set fixing a game. The video ref decisions I believe are based on this bs that the ref has to send up a decision of try/no try. The vid ref then goes so far out of their way to make sure the onfield is correct (rapana try last week being a perfect example). The qcup that was mentioned earlier is clearly because the media coverage is minimal and therefore no uproar if a team is done wrong. Also minimal video evidence to resort to therefore the fans just accept the decision on the field. NRL is the only sport I can think where the officiating is so influential on a game that bookies should be focussing on them to fix a game instead of players... and yet the rules aren't even enforced, because the media cavemen don't want to see 60 penalties a game. [/QUOTE]

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