Rnd 21: Cronulla Sharks V NZ Warriors Fri 28 Jul 2017, 6pm, Mount Smart Stadium

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What a terrible game of footy to watch not helped by the refs. Glad to take the 2 points and move on to next week.

The games just over officiated. Bakuya and rts both done for tackling in the air, but both brought the player down softly. Should just be play on. Ruck penalties do my head in, unless they actually impede the play the ball why penalise ****?
 

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Wow nu's attempt at tackle gave me flash back
of Hurrells Knee that collected Tupou jaw and sprayed his teeth across the field.
 

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A friend knows bird and said she messaged him n asked him how he was. Obviously no medical terms from simple jack
Messaged him I presume your talking about Brown there? The press conference was good news by Flanno, obviously heavily concussed but no major issue Im pretty sure he said.
 

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Wow nu's attempt at tackle gave me flash back
of Hurrells Knee that collected Tupou jaw and sprayed his teeth across the field.
i had a flashback of that point too. I also thought that was deliberate.
 

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Ok thanks for those updates BWB. Anyway, back to the game, decent performance, not our best performance at all but to get a comfortable enough victory over NZ in Auckland was good. Apart from their intercept they didnt make many line breaks. Their one try they scored from attacking was soft defence but other then that we looked alright. Fifita had a decent game I thought, Val was good again, his kicking was good aswell, conversion wise. Townsend went alright apart from that one kick he put out on the full by a fair margin.
 

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Wow nu's attempt at tackle gave me flash back
of Hurrells Knee that collected Tupou jaw and sprayed his teeth across the field.
i had a flashback of that point too. I also thought that was deliberate.
 

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I don't think it was deliberate Nu just down to low to tackle and got his head in the wrong spot.
As I coach my kids team gotta wrap your arms and cheek to cheek.
 

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As much as it was ruled as a penalty does anyone think it was a penalty (deliberate knee) and any issue at the judiciary?
 

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It was a weird one, it almost looked like he braced his knee for the impact from Nu's head. He kept it lifted but didn't seem to be aiming for him.
 

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The referees have been terrible this year on all teams behalf. So inconsistent, got wrong players mixed up aswell haha. The bunker wont even come in and overrule poor decisions even though that is their job partly. Its been ridiculous this year for all teams.
 
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The referees have been terrible this year on all teams behalf. So inconsistent, got wrong players mixed up aswell haha. The bunker wont even come in and overrule poor decisions even though that is their job partly. Its been ridiculous this year for all teams.

I think the nrl has limited its involvement in general play calls
 

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We have a tough number of games coming up. We still have Broncos Roosters & Cowboys to come. All fellow top 8 teams. If Maloney & Bird return sooner rather then later we may be able to beat those 3. Otherwise we have Canberra & Newcastle.
 
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