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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3270729, member: 9052"] I posted about it a while ago, but NRL shot themselves in the foot when they ramped up the grading for crusher tackles and hitting players late.... It was basically the same crackdown they're doing now except on those two offences. What ended up happening is players were being put on report for minor and accidental crusher tackles or players being hit a split second after passing/kicking it. When that is combined with the already existing rule of the bunker being able to interject and recommend a penalty for reportable acts of foul play, it meant that players could lie down for minor offences and more often than not they would get a penalty. They originally changed the rule to it having to be a reportable offence, because players were laying down for a minor slap across the face and because it was foul play the bunker had to step in and give a penalty. When they changed it to reportable everyone just stood there with time off and waited for whoever it was trying to get the penalty to get up and play it. But they basically just ended up killing their team's momentum and had to live with the ridicule of being a weak ass little bitch. So players basically stopped diving unless they really copped one across the face. They have now lowered what is deemed reportable for high shots... so now players can just stay down for any minor high shots, crushers or being hit late (including being hit off the ball). Except this shit happens all the time in the game so players are now constantly diving or wasting time for the bunker to check it to see if they'll get a penalty... or now if they can get someone sent off. I think it was James Graham who indicated that in the ESL they changed the rule from being reportable to it having to be a sin bin or send off offence for the bunker to interject with the penalty... and their MRC picks up any reportable ones after the game. This approach is exactly where the NRL now needs to go with it. If a player is lying down, but the ref misses it then he can just call time off, tell the player to hand the ball over to someone else to play it and move on... the bunker can then review it in the background and if it's sin bin worthy they call time off go back to the incident and send the player off... it's basically what they did in the broncos game for Radley. Both broncos got up and played on, the bunker reviewed it and came back to send him off. Of course the commentators got up in arms, because they weren't used to players actually getting up and playing on... I daresay if Albert stays down and Radley is sent off straight away, rather than being sent off 4 tackles later, than this probably becomes a non-issue. The commentators and NSWRL in general are pushing this agenda that because the game was played on and the ref initially missed it that shouldering someone in the face (twice) somehow didn't warrant being sin binned. Rather than applauding the broncos players for getting up and playing on for what is obviously a sin bin offence they have ramped up that Radley was somehow unfairly binned (even though the idiot was put on report 4 times and should've been sent off completely for the first one that he put on Albert). [/QUOTE]

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