The Video ref

[supermario]

This is an abomonation brought over from the bastard merge of SewerLeague and the ARL.

it still plagues the game today with incorrect desicions inspite of numerous camera angles and the assistance of the Benefit of the Doubt rule.

I have always wondered what goes through a video ref's head, i mean we hear the Refs on the field, we can listen to their conversations to the players and with each other, their rulings during the game......... Why not the video ref???

While union is second to League, it makes the TMO accountable for their calls by allowing his explination to be brought into the public by being micked up.

It's time Rugby League made the Video Ref Accountable, Make him and his reasons heard by the people !!!!

[Guest]

We were robbed a try today for sure...
Any more than 5 or 6 replays surely deserves benefit of the doubt...
That being said, i knew the more times they watched it, the less likely we were to have it awarded...

[PKR]

Hi Cookies, Pauline here.
That video ref was a disgrace, I mean how many times did he need to look at the try. To look at it so many times just shows how inept he was. TRY .... benefit of the doubt ...... how hard is it?

[Guest]

tbo, I thought Sammy lost control with a slight separation shown through the narrowest of glimpses only. That being said, for the video voyer to look at it as many times and for as long as he did means he wasnt convinced and as such, by the rules, benefit of the doubt should have been given to the attacking side. Maybe they should have a time limit on the decision and if they cant press green or red in a given time, automatic BOD try?

[Hawkeye]

Perret's was more a try than Proctor, and his try didn't even get classed as BOD. How he could class that as a legit try when Cordner was impeded and could not get a shot at a tackle until he was over the line is ridiculous. Boyd should've just not have tried, and gone down to the ground appealing with his hands up ...he may have got a fair call then !

[Guest]

Perret's was more a try than Proctor, and his try didn't even get classed as BOD. How he could class that as a legit try when Cordner was impeded and could not get a shot at a tackle until he was over the line is ridiculous. Boyd should've just not have tried, and gone down to the ground appealing with his hands up ...he may have got a fair call then !

No he wouldnt. He wasnt wearing purple!

[Hawkeye]

tbo, I thought Sammy lost control with a slight separation shown through the narrowest of glimpses only.

The laughable thing about this no try, is that the Souffs winger was given a try on Friday night for much the same .... though Sam's looked more legit than the Vermins winger whose 'sus' put down was much clearer to see on camera !

[Guest]

Hawks, the glaring inconsistencies are outrageous. The system is either flawed or corrupt when they cant even get BOD right?

I would hate to see the voyer refs trying to tie their own shoelaces!

[stsae]

Perret's was more a try than Proctor, and his try didn't even get classed as BOD. How he could class that as a legit try when Cordner was impeded and could not get a shot at a tackle until he was over the line is ridiculous. Boyd should've just not have tried, and gone down to the ground appealing with his hands up ...he may have got a fair call then !

I actually thought Cordner was impeded twice, first the decoy hit Cordners left shoulder clearly impeding his shot on Procter, then the decoy ended up between Cordner and Procter, and if anything he assisted Procter to get over the line, another no no.

IMO there were 3 reasons to disallow the try.

Will the vidiot get dropped???

[supermario]

This is my point, and it's not just for yesterdays game, this weekend we have seen some absolute clangers by the videorefs yet we have no insight into what they think and how they adjudicate their desicions.

lets use an example, couple of years ago (2010 i think) Gaz clearly does not ground the ball when crossing the line for the Dragons, the ball clearly bounces..... Bill harrigan as video ref calls it a try. What was he thinking, what was his explination for his call at that time. An apology later did not help the opposition.

[stsae]

This is my point, and it's not just for yesterdays game, this weekend we have seen some absolute clangers by the videorefs yet we have no insight into what they think and how they adjudicate their desicions.

lets use an example, couple of years ago (2010 i think) Gaz clearly does not ground the ball when crossing the line for the Dragons, the ball clearly bounces..... Bill harrigan as video ref calls it a try. What was he thinking, what was his explination for his call at that time. An apology later did not help the opposition.

I've always voiced my opinion against the vidiot. Same with the 2 reffs. For 2 innovations that are supposed to assist the reffs they haven't changed a thing IMO.

Humans will always make errors, technology hasn't helped curb that, not in our game anyways.

Let the fool in the middle make his call and get on with it. Read about it in the papers on Monday, like we did for 90 yrs before NewsRL tried to play God and make reffs more important than they ever should be. FFS reffs coaches and spokesmen, they think they're actually important.

I can live with incompetent reffs. When vidiots blatantly mess with their own rules it's just taking the piss IMO.

[chook 56]

I've always voiced my opinion against the vidiot. Same with the 2 reffs. For 2 innovations that are supposed to assist the reffs they haven't changed a thing IMO.

Humans will always make errors, technology hasn't helped curb that, not in our game anyways.

Let the fool in the middle make his call and get on with it. Read about it in the papers on Monday, like we did for 90 yrs before NewsRL tried to play God and make reffs more important than they ever should be. FFS reffs coaches and spokesmen, they think they're actually important.

I can live with incompetent reffs. When vidiots blatantly mess with their own rules it's just taking the piss IMO.

We saw this starting to happen with Hollywood Hartley & then his son took over. Harrigan.
And yes, how the fark can the vidiot get it wrong SOOOO many times??

[redwhiteblue]

Bill Harridan (yes, that's how it's spelt according to spellcheck!) is being interviewed tonight on NRL Daily.. Freddy wants the video ref's head on a platter. They found 2 more cases of obstruction in Storm tries along with 3 forward passes. Throw in Sammy's try and you have a vastly different scoreline.