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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2669498, member: 8215"] This is probably not as bad as it sounds. I could understand if they're discussing the teams and one says "I think Team X is pushing Rule X a bit too far, so look out for that and penalise them if they need to peg it back a bit". At least that is responding to actual indiscretions. The other situation though, where they discuss being more moderate with penalties, or even worse yet, talk about evening up the count, that's just bullshit. Being impartial doesn't mean giving two teams the same number of penalties, it means treating their actions the same, and if one team is going outside the rules more than the other, than one team deserves more penalties. And if it's a penalty in the first half, it's a penalty in the second half. I'm sorry, the refs aren't there to coach the players in to cleaning up their act, or "manage" the flow of the game, starting harsh but becoming more passive to open the game up. They are there to blow the fucking whistle if a team infringes. Even if they just want to be [I]perceived[/I] at being impartial (which would be a classic Greenberg directive), then they're fooling themselves because Rugby League fans are just as passionate about teams they hate as they are about those that they support, so thinking that fans will look at a count, see it roughly even, and call the refs fair just shows you how out of touch they are. Unfortunately, the NRL are only interested in explaining their position on (A) things they can justify as being correct, or (B) absolute howlers that didn't affect the outcome of the game. Did they ever admit they got the Foran Hand Of God call wrong? No, they just changed the rules, saying that the call was correct as per the old rules, but needed to be changed to prevent it again (but really, changed the rules so that they can rule it as whatever the **** they want and it's still "correct"). Would they have gone to all the trouble of explaining the rules on the Souths Bulldogs penalty if they realised they got it wrong? Never. Did they admit that Queensland were robbed by the Thaiday no-try ruling? Nope. And now they know that they're stuck with that interpretation, and will continue to rule it that way, lest they admit the backlash from up here was justified all along. It'll only change when it potentially means that one of the Darling clubs might lose a game, they'll finally call it correct and rule it as a strip so play-on (cue Lyon with the ensuing torso-try), and then they'll tell the media that it was a strip and they did on fact call it correct (and ignore they've been incorrect up until that point). [/QUOTE]

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