Gerard Sutton is a Cheat

[Andrew Walker]

The magnificent irony of that call was that Cummins was trying his level best to screw us - as he had done for years even going back to Anasta's "you're off your head" call - but he got confused. He didn't help us at all, but he will be forever associated in the eyes of idiots on social media as giving us a premiership. It must be a special kind of hell for him.

You know spirit I too have revelled in this pretty much since it really dawned on me the following day after the gf the irony of it all

[roostermcgregor]

Ah, how wonderful the irony is for Ben Cummins is a cheat.
How hard he tried in that GF to gift the Raiders their premiership.
All the decisions in the second half that had the Faiders permanently camped on the Roosters tryline.
How I remember being at the game, and had my head turned towards that Northern end of the ground, for 40 minutes straight.
How I remember my neck being sore for having it twisted in the one position, for so long.
And then the joy of that mistaken call, where every other football supporter blames Cummins, for gifting the Roosters a premiership.
Oh how wonderful the irony is !!!!
Sometimes life has this wonderful way of biting people on the ass, who really deserve it

[Rooster_6]

Interesting moment in the Manly/Knights game - Anthony Milford took out Garrick on a Sea Eagles linebreak, Sea Eagles still had the ball with 25 seconds to go and a shot Newcastle defensive line to run at however Sutton blew a penalty and sent Milford to the bin.

Very different to the Crichton situation where he played an advantage to the panthers, allowed them to continue to attack and then went back and put Crichton in the sin bin after the Panthers knocked on a few plays later.

Seems to be clear that he was also making up new rules in that sequence of play also even though Annesley didn’t address it in his post round wind up with the media.

[zac]

Interesting moment in the Manly/Knights game - Anthony Milford took out Garrick on a Sea Eagles linebreak, Sea Eagles still had the ball with 25 seconds to go and a shot Newcastle defensive line to run at however Sutton blew a penalty and sent Milford to the bin.

Very different to the Crichton situation where he played an advantage to the panthers, allowed them to continue to attack and then went back and put Crichton in the sin bin after the Panthers knocked on a few plays later.

Seems to be clear that he was also making up new rules in that sequence of play also even though Annesley didn’t address it in his post round wind up with the media.

annesley did talk about it and defended sutton's right to play as long an advantage as he wanted but sounds like that was just fudging

[player 1]

annesley did talk about it and defended sutton's right to play as long an advantage as he wanted but sounds like that was just fudging

I watched that - what a mealy-mouthed bullshit artist.

"There's no rule about how many tackles the ref can allow before declaring an advantage has been taken and a penalty/sin-bin can no longer be called."

This born liar then goes on to say, as if letting the play goes on for 4 tackles (including having a set restart) is fair enough, "obviously if it's 3 sets later - that's too late".

What a total dishonest, lying carnt.

[King Salvo]

annesley did talk about it and defended sutton's right to play as long an advantage as he wanted but sounds like that was just fudging

I would like to see them play the advantage on the first tackle of the set restart - allow teams to toss the ball about akin to a free hit - if they lose possession/knock on etc - the ref comes back to the spot where the set restart offence occurred and awards a penalty to the non offending team(i.e team awarded the set restart).

Currently if you lose the ball on the frost tackle of a set restart the offending team obtains possession of the ball from a "scrum"

[zac]

I would like to see them play the advantage on the first tackle of the set restart - allow teams to toss the ball about akin to a free hit - if they lose possession/knock on etc - the ref comes back to the spot where the set restart offence occurred and awards a penalty to the non offending team(i.e team awarded the set restart).

Currently if you lose the ball on the frost tackle of a set restart the offending team obtains possession of the ball from a "scrum"

sounds alright but whatever they do they've got to be consistent otherwise they leave themselves open to being called cheating bastards

[Carlos Parra]

sounds alright but whatever they do they've got to be consistent otherwise they leave themselves open to being called cheating bastards

They will always be cheating bastards.

[Johnny Brass]

Article today highlighting that we have the most successful captains challenges which suggests to me that we aren't getting the rub of the green from the whistle blowers.

[Tommy Smith]

Article today highlighting that we have the most successful captains challenges which suggests to me that we aren't getting the rub of the green from the whistle blowers.

This was utterly predictable which is why I was ecstatic when the rule came in.

It was always going to benefit us the most and anyone who can't see the link to that stat is blind or naive.

[Spirit of 66]

This was utterly predictable which is why I was ecstatic when the rule came in.

It was always going to benefit us the most and anyone who can't see the link to that stat is blind or naive.

Yes, the flip side of the "most successful challenges" stat is the "most frequent dud call" stat.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Article today highlighting that we have the most successful captains challenges which suggests to me that we aren't getting the rub of the green from the whistle blowers.

No surprise that this is the case.

Would be interesting to know how many wrong calls go against us that we don't challenge because we have used up our challenge or can't challenge because the ref claims we aren't allowed to

[ARD]

To play devils advocate…We are more conservative than other clubs. Seen a number of times player X jump up carrying on about a challenge and Teddy doesn’t bother.

Could it have more to do with our culture; no nonsense get on with it and play footy character rather than Ref bias? Perhaps we are playing in the spirit of the rule, I.e. challenge the clanger and cop on the chin the others?

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

To play devils advocate…We are more conservative than other clubs. Seen a number of times player X jump up carrying on about a challenge and Teddy doesn’t bother.

Could it have more to do with our culture; no nonsense get on with it and play footy character rather than Ref bias? Perhaps we are playing in the spirit of the rule, I.e. challenge the clanger and cop on the chin the others?

Would you say the same thing about the refs? If they officiated the games fairly to begin with would we need the challenge at all? Or would we be able to cop the odd wrong call on the chin

It's like the neutral umpires in cricket. They weren't brought in because of howlers. They were introduced to eliminate bias from cheating umpires like Steve Randall, Darrell Hair and Peter Parker.

[ARD]

Would you say the same thing about the refs? If they officiated the games fairly to begin with would we need the challenge at all? Or would we be able to cop the odd wrong call on the chin

It's like the neutral umpires in cricket. They weren't brought in because of howlers. They were introduced to eliminate bias from cheating umpires like Steve Randall, Darrell Hair and Peter Parker.

The challenge wasn’t brought in because refs were unfairly officiating.