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Exactly and in terms of bunker, the incorrect call went the Panthers way for To’os try
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Exactly and in terms of bunker, the incorrect call went the Panthers way for To’os try
Technically an incorrect call, and would typically be a no try due to rules (but probably fine most of the time in a non-try scoring situation...) but I thought a good example of a one where nobody is really impeded and if the rule wasn't so black and white it is a fair try.
But rules is rules
HaroldBishop
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Do we think Paul Gallen as captain would have got away with saying something like that?
Doesn't send a very good message and sets a precedent that it is okay.
HaroldBishop
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That was my initial thought as well. No chance.
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Missed it I guess. What'd he say?
Greg86
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He has been doing it his whole career, not going to get done now for it.
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The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that Storm captain Smith appeared to question the integrity of grand final match officials as Hughes was fingered for a professional foul with nine minutes remaining.
A video referral was made for a deliberate obstruction by Hughes on Panthers forward Viliame Kikau, who was chasing an attacking kick and putting pressure on Storm fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen near Melbourne's tryline. Smith approached on-field referee Gerard Sutton during the review.
"The last three or four penalties they have got is little very picky stuff and we have got nothing mate," Smith told Sutton before Hughes was sent to the bin, according to the Herald, in audio picked up by a Channel Nine FX mic.
"I get it, everyone wants an exciting finish. But we are just the same as them. Stop trying to pick little things out of our game to make an exciting finish."
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He has been doing this crap his whole career, never gets pulled up for it. Same stuff JT would say too.
Gallen would never get to talk to the ref like that.
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Thank god
snowman
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wait, so everyone in this thread bagged the ref for being ****, but when smith calls him **** you want him fined?
lmao, this place is unreal
lmao, this place is unreal
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Jaws
Well, considering others have been regardless of the circumstances surrounding it...
I mean, he insinuated they were corrupt...
but look, if that turns out to be the case I’m all for him getting off and speaking truth to power.
HaroldBishop
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Ivan was fined $20k for exactly the same thing.
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There's 9m to go in a GF & you've lost a man for 10. You bet Smith is using every delaying tactic & leveraging anything he can from the ref. You could fine him $50k afterwards it ain't gonna change the outcome.
Cleary is a coach speaking to media & fans 15m after a game. Smith is a captain speaking to the ref in the thick of it.
I agree with snowy. Everyone calling the ref a cheat sooks when someone else might insinuate something similar is classic
Cleary is a coach speaking to media & fans 15m after a game. Smith is a captain speaking to the ref in the thick of it.
I agree with snowy. Everyone calling the ref a cheat sooks when someone else might insinuate something similar is classic
Gards
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defs one of the best coaches we will ever see. what he could have achieved with some of our Sharks squads is mind boggling. not just making the individual players better but making them work better together and not be lazy
sarcasm?
happily take a couple pieces of broken furniture for a few more premierships and with the additional prize money could buy a furniture store. its easy to think bellamy is just cranky and paranoid when he was flipping out while 20 points or whatever up on the scoreboard and the game seemingly in the bag.
but he demands perfection and was spot on to be concerned as the storm got sloppy and the panthers attack started to click and whatya know the storm almost had the game snatched away from them at the death.
if that wasn't a grand final win I reckon bellamy would have torn shreads off them post game for letting the panthers back in.
tbf smith has a point. there's an uncanny amount of players that get sent to the bin with less than 10 mins to go in a game with the result looking close to a sure thing. is this the ref at the end of his tether and patience with foul play after a long game or is it the ref trying to make things look better and more even on the stats sheet to avoid being called bias? or at a stretch to make it exciting after a rather one sided affair?
the square ups have been around for ages, we see it all the time, the team down on the scoreboard getting calls start to go there way. calls that were not considered worth being made in the first half are suddenly being made and in their favour. a different rule book for the last 20 mins or whatever. not saying this is what happened last night or the refs did anything wrong just that the officials have so much form on this sort of caper that it's hard to ignore or start to ponder some questions. I think it's more to do with the pressure of looking like a one side ref or just getting overwhelmed in the moment. BUT it is a business and entertainment at the end of the day as well
HaroldBishop
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I think a player/coach implying the officials are 'cheating' is a little different to posters on a forum implying the same thing.
Anyway, they've set a precedent now. As long as it's on the field, say what you want to the ref.
Tiger Shark
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Well there's a big difference between some keyboard warriors on a forum and an actual player doing it. I thought that was obvious.
snowman
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you are going to one extreme here and its amusing
he didnt swear at him, he simply made a remark about making a grand stand finish
funny how everyone was up in arms when penrith were getting a "rough" time, but the minute melbourne get 1 or 2 bad calls its all in on smith