Match 2024 NRL Round 2 - Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, 6pm Friday 15 March @ PointsBet Stadium

[Tiger Shark]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

 

[apezza]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

To put in this in Latrell language:

F... their comment re Kikau, F.... their comment re McInnes, F.... their comment re Trindall and F... their fans in general!

 

[Western Sharkie]

To put in this in Latrell language:

F... their comment re Kikau, F.... their comment re McInnes, F.... their comment re Trindall and F... their fans in general!

To many “other” words used mate…..

 

[Proud Shark]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

Yep, some fans are laughable, but we definitely got the rub of the green. By the rules the Kikau try was right, but there's no way Tricky stops him and if they had just applied common sense there I think it would have been fair. 12-0 down there and it's a different game. If Nikora had been sent off, it may have been justified. Ramien also got away with two challenges on the catcher with no eyes for the ball, the second of which we turned into points. I still think we were the better side, especially in the last 20, but that game deserved to be way closer and dogs fans are justified to be a bit annoyed.

Realistically, if the Kikau one goes their way, and Wilson doesn't bottle the put down we were looking at an 18-6 deficit at the break. We should be better than that.

 

[bort]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

McInnes suspension for a headclash would be laughable if it hadn't happened to Dale, however Dale ran in a lot more wildly.

Trindall suspension is nonsense, he tried to get around moving ref, not shoved him.

Kikau try of course is annoying but it's the rules. We've seen 1000 tries pulled back for obstruction of a guy who 'wouldn't' have stopped them... we've also seen plenty of try saves which 'shouldn't' have been possible.

I was suss on the Talakai kick although hard to overrule on field call of try.

Yep, some fans are laughable, but we definitely got the rub of the green. By the rules the Kikau try was right, but there's no way Tricky stops him and if they had just applied common sense there I think it would have been fair. 12-0 down there and it's a different game. If Nikora had been sent off, it may have been justified. Ramien also got away with two challenges on the catcher with no eyes for the ball, the second of which we turned into points. I still think we were the better side, especially in the last 20, but that game deserved to be way closer and dogs fans are justified to be a bit annoyed.

Realistically, if the Kikau one goes their way, and Wilson doesn't bottle the put down we were looking at an 18-6 deficit at the break. We should be better than that.

Agree Nikora was close to being sent, although notorious milkman Kikau bounced straight up which suggests it really wasn't that hard.
Ramien was iffy but so was Reed swinging at Tommy's head on the ground.
We've won a man down before who is to say if Nikora is binned but we get a penalty there (or sin bin...) we don't go on to win.

 

[Proud Shark]

McInnes suspension for a headclash would be laughable if it hadn't happened to Dale, however Dale ran in a lot more wildly.

Trindall suspension is nonsense, he tried to get around moving ref, not shoved him.

Kikau try of course is annoying but it's the rules. We've seen 1000 tries pulled back for obstruction of a guy who 'wouldn't' have stopped them... we've also seen plenty of try saves which 'shouldn't' have been possible.

I was suss on the Talakai kick although hard to overrule on field call of try.


Agree Nikora was close to being sent, although notorious milkman Kikau bounced straight up which suggests it really wasn't that hard.
Ramien was iffy but so was Reed swinging at Tommy's head on the ground.
We've won a man down before who is to say if Nikora is binned but we get a penalty there (or sin bin...) we don't go on to win.

I wasn't saying we don't go on to win. I still think we were the better side, just could have been a lot closer if things didn't go our way.

 

[bort]

I wasn't saying we don't go on to win. I still think we were the better side, just could have been a lot closer if things didn't go our way.

For sure, was just expanding on what you were saying
Boohoo everything went against us our winger put his whole foot out while trying to score, even the sideline makes 50/50 calls against us by existing

What if Kikau doesn't crouch after passing, what if Mahoney gets 10 for swinging at a head on the ground, what if Wilton grounds Ronnie's kick instead of watching it bobble around (he actually wasn't offside which I thought he was live). What if Taaffe didn't waste their captains challenge.
What if we got the penalty for the high shot on Katoa that was ignored.

They certainly weren't 'lucky'
But they were outplayed.

 

[MrDravid]

Kikau try of course is annoying but it's the rules. We've seen 1000 tries pulled back for obstruction of a guy who 'wouldn't' have stopped them... we've also seen plenty of try saves which 'shouldn't' have been possible.

Uncle Graham says try should have been awarded (although then went on to talk about referee discretion)

 

[HaroldBishop]

Uncle Graham says try should have been awarded (although then went on to talk about referee discretion)

Tricky wasn't going to stop him by tackling him for sure. As unlikely as it sounds he could have forced an error though by playing at the ball. Still unlikely, I know.

 

[bort]

Uncle Graham says try should have been awarded (although then went on to talk about referee discretion)

That's dumb. He was impeded as much if more than plenty of the other tries to take off teams due to mistimed runs or guys diving off a touch from the jersey of a passing decoy

 

[MrDravid]

Tricky wasn't going to stop him by tackling him for sure. As unlikely as it sounds he could have forced an error though by playing at the ball. Still unlikely, I know.

Yeah I doubt anyone really expected him to... but there's at least a chance he gets in the way and stops him. Obviously the ref thought he had done enough to get in the way, not to send it up a try.

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

The Trindall/ref incident while unfortunate for Dogs was 100% the correct call. Every single one of those dogs fans crying would he crying harder if it happened to them and the try was awarded.

 

[Born&bred]

Have to laugh at the sooking from the Dogs fans online. Apparently McInnes should have been suspended for the head clash in the opening minute and Trindall should have been suspended for bumping into the ref becuase Hughes got suspended.

I will admit that the Kikau try was a bit of a tough one, I'm sure we'd be annoyed if it happened to us but those are the rules.

The Talakai kick might have deserved a closer look.

I looked at it frame by frame. It hit the ground and was rolling away, and he got a toe on it after that. It was a knock on, pure and simple, but you take the rough with the smooth. Look at the scoreboard though - nothing to see here...

 

[MMsharks]

how did the bunker miss that knock on by talakai
very surprised that got ok'd by the Bunker

shocking

 

[Thresher]

You know he paints the tips of his boots a grass colour?

You can't tell unless you see him walking on another surface.

 

[Deleted member 2543]

I looked at it frame by frame. It hit the ground and was rolling away, and he got a toe on it after that. It was a knock on, pure and simple, but you take the rough with the smooth. Look at the scoreboard though - nothing to see here...

Hitting the ground doesn’t make it a knock on.

Issue on that kick is fans not knowing/understanding the rules.

Kikau no-try a 50/50. Probably one of those situations where the bunker wouldn’t have overruled a try, but the on-field call was enough to put doubt over it.

 

[Born&bred]

Hitting the ground doesn’t make it a knock on.

Issue on that kick is fans not knowing/understanding the rules.

Kikau no-try a 50/50. Probably one of those situations where the bunker wouldn’t have overruled a try, but the on-field call was enough to put doubt over it.

The fact that it had started to roll away does...

 

[Deleted member 2543]

The fact that it had started to roll away does...

It actually doesn’t mate.

You (and the majority of RL fans) just misunderstand the rule.

If a player wanted to AFL style bounce the ball 1m over his head and then kick it on the way back down, that’s all good. It would look ridiculous and he might have a hard time convincing the ref/bunker he meant it - but that is play on within the rules.

The ball wobbling a bit on Sifa’s kick is irrelevant.

(Actualky - I be think the AFL bounce thing might just be normal RL rather than NRL. I think the NRL might have added the words “immediately” to their interpretation).

 

[Born&bred]

It actually doesn’t mate.

You (and the majority of RL fans) just misunderstand the rule.

If a player wanted to AFL style bounce the ball 1m over his head and then kick it on the way back down, that’s all good. It would look ridiculous and he might have a hard time convincing the ref/bunker he meant it - but that is play on within the rules.

The ball wobbling a bit on Sifa’s kick is irrelevant.

(Actualky - I be think the AFL bounce thing might just be normal RL rather than NRL. I think the NRL might have added the words “immediately” to their interpretation).

**** me you're condescending - I don't misunderstand anything. I read the play differently. You can't lose control of the ball, drop it cold, and then throw your foot out to look like it was intentional ffs.

There'll never be a knock on ever again?

 

[Deleted member 2543]

**** me you're condescending - I don't misunderstand anything. I read the play differently. You can't lose control of the ball, drop it cold, and then throw your foot out to look like it was intentional ffs.

There'll never be a knock on ever again?

If you think he dropped it cold, that’s a different conversation than what you and I were having.