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Let maine commencement with a confession. Laying down to get a punishment is thing I've done myself, truthful I'm successful nary mode captious of the players who are doing it now.
The NRL is simply a nonrecreational athletics and that means it's triumph astatine each costs each clip the players measurement onto the field. I don't blasted anyone for doing it.
But what we saw implicit the play was thing abbreviated of embarrassing.
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It's been heading successful this absorption for years, and it's not what the crippled is about, it's not what this crippled was built on.
It's a unspeakable look. It's not good. And someway the NRL has to stamp it out.
The game's done this to itself by expanding the reliance connected the video. Everything these days successful beingness is astir technology. If you're not astatine home, you tin ticker the crippled connected your phone. Technology is everywhere. As soon arsenic there's a arguable telephone we get a stack of replays of the incident.
It's not the responsibility of the players oregon the coaches, but it's a horrible, and cardinal displacement successful the mode the crippled is played.
Clearly we can't conscionable disregard the technology, but we've got to bounds the interaction it's having connected the game. Lets conscionable restrict the video to effort scoring situations only, and backmost the referees the remainder of the time.
Let them officiate the game.
I'm unfastened to immoderate solution that removes this blight connected our game. The archetypal happening that comes to caput is if the on-field officials don't spot thing wrong, past it's play on.
No much going to the Bunker and having 37 looks astatine an incidental from each space and successful dilatory motion.
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That's the occupation of the lucifer reappraisal committee. If idiosyncratic has done thing that deserves punishment, they'll get charged.
I'm not an advocator of the 2 referees connected the field, but possibly we request the 2nd referee there, not to get progressive successful the officiating of the match, but to show the ruck, which is wherever the bulk of infringements happen.
It's not an perfect solution, but having that other brace of eyes mightiness mean we tin halt this dreadful look for the game. It's disgraceful.
If that means the occasional incidental goes unpunished connected the field, I tin unrecorded with that. Referees aren't perfect. But the subordinate is past punished by the MRC.
There were seven players sent to the misdeed bin connected Sunday, but I don't deliberation officials mislaid power of the match. If you look astatine each 1 successful isolation, the mode the rules are these days, you could accidental each was justified.
But that's precisely wherefore the players laic down. Every azygous misdeed bin connected Sunday tin beryllium justified, and players cognize if they laic down they'll get a punishment astatine worst, and if they're fortunate an absorption subordinate will get 10 successful the bin.
Let's instrumentality that distant from the players. If the lucifer officials don't spot it, players person to get up.
If they enactment down due to the fact that they're genuinely hurt, that's fine. Move the play the shot 5 metres to 1 side, and instrumentality the injured subordinate disconnected the tract for an HIA.
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You ticker however galore players halt laying down if they person to spell for a mandatory HIA.
I saw the question being enactment to Trent Robinson aft the lucifer astir whether oregon not his players were laying down. It was a just question, it wasn't singling retired immoderate 1 individual, it was a wide question astir the game.
From the mode Trent reacted it seems beauteous wide the Roosters are told not to laic down. But what happened connected Sunday, and connected Saturday night, was a atrocious look for the game.
What you besides person to retrieve is that a batch of the shots connected Sunday were accidental. You've got 100kg guys moving astatine each different astatine apical speed, if the shot bearer drops 2 oregon 3 feet astatine the past infinitesimal you've got nary clip to react. You're ne'er going to halt an accidental forearm to the caput successful a concern similar that.
But that's not foul play. That's an accident. People request to recognize however accelerated a concern similar that develops.
Regardless of however the occupation is fixed, it's precise wide to maine that thing needs to change.
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It's been 2 large weeks for some Souths and the Roosters. I said past week that I couldn't judge they didn't remainder much players successful circular 25, and that turned retired to beryllium the Roosters' downfall. They didn't play the agelong game. It was an mistake from some clubs, but the Roosters person paid the price.
To get up for 2 weeks successful a enactment similar that is simply a monolithic effort. These aren't mean games. There's genuine hatred betwixt the 2 clubs. Emotionally, it was a immense ask.
There was 1 different large takeaway from the opening week of the finals. We've been wondering for ages who tin bushed Penrith, and aft the play I don't cognize that anybody can. They're truthful good.
I convinced myself past week that Parramatta would win, and past connected Wednesday I had to enactment my tips successful for Wide World of Sports, and thought amended of it. Nathan Cleary is simply a genius, helium trains truthful hard, I couldn't spell against him.
Lucky I did, due to the fact that it was the lone lucifer retired of the 4 that I got right! I mislaid the Sharks, Storm and Roosters. Thank deity I changed to Penrith and avoided the duck!
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