NRL biased against Radley?

[GC6]

A hip drop is any tackle where the ball carrier sits up holding their ankle in pain - NRL

[rented tracksuit]

Maybe it’s not bias, maybe it’s just bad luck but if you’re Victor Radley you’d have to wonder if the NRL weren’t out to get you. Still remember the sin bin for the phantom punch Vs Souths, the deliberate penalty to try and get a captains challenge which we have seen multiple, multiple players do but never get sin binned for except Victor.

And now the first ever Knee drop…. Because you can’t call that a hip drop right?

Poor bloke has played 73 minutes straight (45 of those minutes down a man) in the middle of the field, on a rain soaked pitch, had 22 hard carries, made 32 tackles and you know he put everything into every single one of those tackles. And some bloke up on his high chair in a bunker has deemed that a “hip drop”. Seriously spare me the apology and explanation Graham Annesley, the game is becoming a farce. Victor is what I love about this game, stop ruining it please.

Imagine if you actually hip dropped a player while facing the back of him. You’d be balls deep in the mud!

[rented tracksuit]

Very well said. It was an embarrassing decision. The bulldogs player milked it and got the reward poor decision.

They are coached that as soon as they feel anything on the back of their legs to go down like a $2 hooker at 3am.

[mattyh]

They are coached that as soon as they feel anything on the back of their legs to go down like a $2 hooker at 3am.

I could with a $ 2 hooker after that first half

[Waylander]

Even Jai Arrow just said it wasn’t a hip drop.

Here’s the NRL’s explainer video. Judge for yourself:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5KJ9mCbS3rU

[Funky Chicken]

Warren smith said “even rooster supporters can’t argue with that” …. I still don’t know what the issue was

Warren Smith is a total flog - 3 current and former players in James Graham, Cooper Cronk and Jai Arrow all unanimously agreed that the decision was wrong and Radley should never have been penalised.

[mattyh]

I'm starting to wonder

I was ok with the young send off.

I have no idea how rads got binned though, pure accident.

[BraveTheWorld]

If that's a hip-drop, then you're essentially not permitted to tackle someone from behind.
Absolutely diaboloical call. We certainly get our fair share of them.

[rented tracksuit]

I'm starting to wonder

I was ok with the young send off.

I have no idea how rads got binned though, pure accident.

Not even an accident. Just part of a tackle.

[zac]

crichton's kneeing of walker was more deserving of the bin. just because a defensive player isn't looking at you doesn't mean he disappears - you still have to do everything you can to avoid kneeing him in the head

[Andrew Walker]

crichton's kneeing of walker was more deserving of the bin. just because a defensive player isn't looking at you doesn't mean he disappears - you still have to do everything you can to avoid kneeing him in the head

Just to clarify with Crichton kneeing Walker Are you saying he should have to run around him and not try to hurdle him which is what he did ?

[fletch]

Radley not charged by the NRL.

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

I thought watching the Manly game, there is an underlying bias against us from the referees. Thought the same last night. It's more obvious when we're the away team. And Jack Wighton's hip drop tackle the other week was so much more dangerous and so much more intentional than Radley's last night. 100% Radley is targeted by the officials. In the pouring rain, in the 73rd minute, the players are exhausted, and Radley get's binned for that? Just a disgraceful decision.

I'm a bit like the earlier poster, thinking of just giving the game away as a fan.

[Paddo Colt 61]

I'm starting to wonder

I was ok with the young send off.

I have no idea how rads got binned though, pure accident.

The slomo water spray made the incident very dramatic. I thought marching was a bit harsh - report and sin bin would have been appropriate imo. Dom came in fast in sheets of rain and appeared to be aiming lower than what eventuated.

The long injury break benefitted the Dogs big time. They were clearly out of gas and the Chooks were coming to get them but then they beat us at the same time last year, We're slow starters.

[Cutloose6]

Radley not charged by the NRL.

So if there is no charge then who got it wrong the Bunker or the MRC? I think we all know the answer but once again highlights either bias against us or complete incompetence from the NRL officials.
There seems to be a reluctance by the Roosters to call out bias (whether conscious or not) or incompetence by referees and the bunker. We are just getting way to many wrong calls against us. Last night Robbo should have spent some of Uncle Nicks cash and really gone to town on the officials……and then gone to town on the players for that woeful first half.