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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3317028, member: 9052"] As usual they have the rule sitting there already they just don't bother using it. If it's missed by the on field ref then the foul play must be sufficient to warrant being placed on report for the bunker to intervene. Given they have the MRC there to pick up things that are missed and the significant amount of times where players simply cop a fine or nothing from the garbage ones the ref puts on report nowadays, then I don't see why the ref feels it necessary to put so many of these non-events on report... it creates mass free interchanges, which is a huge advantage. I recall the knights (I believe) getting about 18 interchanges over the course of a game due to free interchanges, HIA's and their normal 8 interchanges. That is ridiculous and should've been a warning shot even back then. I think referees should only be putting players on report in the game if something significant actually occurs, such as the act causing a HIA or warranting a sin bin or send off (as that allows activation of the 18th man). An accidental graze across the face does not warrant being put on report; however if someone gets clocked and knocked out, but the ref misses it... by all means put them on report, 10 in the bin, etc. I would also change grading of crusher tackles to being "prolonged or deliberate" force on the back of head or neck. The crusher was originally created in the storm dojo to apply continuous pressure to the back of the neck in order to control the ball carrier... nobody does that anymore... 99% of the crushers are accidental and usually because the attacker is backing into the defender. If someone accidentally drops into the position possibly penalty sufficient if the ref sees it, but if they miss it because it was so slight and accidental then it won't warrant being on report (due to the changed grading above), therefore the bunker won't intervene on the accidental ones... and therefore players won't bother taking a dive (because they know they won't get the penalty... they'll just look like a little bitch lying down that doesn't know the rules) [/QUOTE]

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