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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3601821, member: 1899"] The frustrating part about the refereeing performance is that there's enough plausible deniability to think they actually did a good job. The NRL does not have a consistent stance on head clashes. Some weeks it's a sin-bin other weeks it's ruled an accident. The MRC seems to support the on-field ruling that it was just an accident so there's nothing to see. This despite the fact that May has come in with a lot of force, left his feet and hit the ball carrier late - how does this not attract a sanction? What message are we sending here? The NRL was in meltdown when Latrell fractured Manu's cheekbone, yet all they could do was crack jokes about Walsh. Then the penalty in possession for Staggs interfering with Luai. Believe it or not, that rule was brought in recently and that's how they want it to be officiated. So you can loiter in the ruck, get in the way of the dummy half and waste time but the second the attacking team tries to shift you, it's your ball. That's not what the rule should be and should require some common sense in instances where it's a mutual infringement but that's clearly lacking. Mitch Kenny's double movement comes down to the system. On the balance of probabilities looking at the footage he lunges forward to get over the line. However, like the Panthers found out in the WCC the video referees loathe to contradict the on-field official. So even though the vision looks bad, when it comes to one of those interpretive calls they'll stick with the on-field call - just like they did with Turuva in last year's fixture. Penrith gave away four penalties/set-restarts on their line in a row and nobody was sent to the bin. I find this curious and the only possible explanation was that this was Sutton's attempt to game manage bring Brisbane into the game and he wasn't actually convinced they were penalties. Later on Eisenhuth drops the ball, Sutton asks whether they want to challenge before just giving the penalty because I imagine Klein told him they couldn't challenge a ruck penalty. The third-man in contact from Carrigan seemed simultaneous, but it was a shocking look. Then when Brisbane wanted to challenge they once again were informed they missed their opportunity. Again, the captain's challenge system is a joke and not even the production crew knew what was going on as they replayed it as if Klein was actually reviewing it. I think Klein would have stuck with the on-field decision regardless but again, bad optics. The one that got me was Edwards getting a last tackle six again for playing it off the mark. He surrenders in the tackle, gets straight to his feet and Walters is pinged when Edwards tries to lunge forward. Way too harsh a penalty and it led directly to points and may as well been game over. You bring these calls up, and they'll just call them 50/50s. We accept in the Luai instance there's new rules and what would have been either play on or a Broncos penalty in the past is now a Panthers penalty. However these new rules don't apply when they take out the Broncos star player with a late head high hit off the ball. The fact Brisbane couldn't activate an 18th man and just had to tread water before they knew exactly what was going on made for an awful contest. And now it appears the Broncos are set for 4-6 weeks of awful contests thanks to this foul play. [/QUOTE]

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