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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3664102, member: 1899"] The calls definitely went in the favour of the Eels, but outside of the Gutherson knock on they were all tough decisions. The rules around competing for the air are always murky and while I thought Sivo had over-stepped his bounds, it wasn't glaringly obvious. The touchie had the best angle and would had to have called it. 40/20 was one of those instances where a captain's challenge would have been useful but you couldn't call it. To the naked eye it was a close call. The Dylan Brown-Tristan Sailor knock-on happened after 15 minutes but if we're grouping that in, Dylan Brown taps it up and then finishes infront of the ball. Optically I could see why the officials would go with the benefit of the doubt to the Eels. Brown turns his back before he knocks the ball up and finishes infront of the ball when it bounces. Conventional wisdom would suggest that if the ball hasn't travelled blatantly backwards it should be a knock-on but the officials tend to provide more leeway these days. As always, teams have to try to take the officials out of it. Instead of whinging about Sivo interfering with Cobbo in the air, the focus should be on the opening defensive set and how the Broncos allowed the Eels to put in an attacking kick. Focus on the edge defence and how the centre and wings didn't work together or how lax the defence was when Russell was able to keep the ball alive for Gutherson to kick through. [/QUOTE]

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