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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3641903, member: 9052"] There was a prime example last night that a 6 again can offer basically no reward for what were previously considered pretty serious penalties. Parra gave away a six again for something and then conceded a half break or full linebreak anyway, but on zero tackle or first tackle Moses is holding onto old mates leg and just refusing to let go until the defence was set. It was absolutely blatant and all the ref does is give a six again... so bunnies lost all momentum on the play in what was a deliberate penalty (ie same style of professional foul that Moses was binned for later in the game) for the reward of 1-2 extra tackles. The result of the exact same penalties throughout a game fluctuate wildly at the moment... often a lesser indiscretion (like a hand on the ball being called once but being let go the other 1000 times) can be significantly more damaging than blatant deliberate penalties... pending location, timing and situation. Talking about professional fouls being 1 extra tackle, compared to phantom yardage penalties being 30m of field position ... that is absolutely fucked officiating. The arbitrary use of the 40m line means 1m either side of it and the penalty is either 30m of field position and a full set of six... or just a new full set of six.... and if you happen to have got a quick ptb on your new set of six, because you happened to be 1m too far downfield, then guess what, the good teams are just going to hold you down and concede another 'penalty'... so your reward for an arguably worse indiscretion is one extra tackle. An issue is that players and coaches are better officials than the referees.. the good players and good teams know the rules better than the refs. They know when a 'tactical' penalty is required and they know the NRL officiating is too gutless to really penalise a team that is blatantly giving them away. **** you could introduce a yellow card system... a player that keeps giving away deliberate penalties is given a 'yellow card', pick up a second one and you're off the field... you can let them sub a player back on but basically that player is ejected from the game. That becomes an issue when it's someone like Munster racing up offside on the edges continually and getting yellow cards... but guess what would happen... the refs would become too fucking gutless to ever use it so they wouldn't even bother blowing the penalties and you end up making the situation worse. The rules have always been there... it's just a refusal of the admin and officials to actually enforce the fucking things properly and consistently. The NRL's standpoint to officiating is the ref not doing their job and remaining as invisible as possible to the point where games are completely out of control and turn into complete clusterfucks. Could you imagine if this kind of bullshit discretion and game management happened in US sports... the admin would be sued into oblivion. NFL has like 6 umpires on the field covering different parts and they call just about everything... they basically lean on the more conservative side by calling more penalties instead of letting them go. The commentators will say that's harsh, but the player did do it. The difference being that US audiences are conditioned to accepting penalties and the players are blamed for conceding the penalties rather than umpires being blamed for having the hide to actually call them. Umpires have the backing to make big calls in important parts of the game and players get blamed if they are the ones fucking up... rather than '[I]no no no no no no... you can't call that' 'Gus... that is a huge call at this time of the game' 'no no no no no no[/I]' [/QUOTE]

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