NRL legend's emphatic solution to 'absolute rot'

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Paul Gallen has dubbed the sin-bin madness successful Sunday's knockout final "absolute rot" and demanded the NRL to instrumentality powerfulness distant from the Bunker.

The Sharks fable insisted the NRL indispensable bounds the Bunker to ruling connected tries and manus authorization backmost to the referee.

Phil Gould was adjacent much scathing successful his appraisal of the Bunker, declaring the $2 million-a-year inaugural would "end up destroying this game".

The condemnation of the Bunker followed the chaos that transpired during the Rabbitohs' 30-14 triumph implicit the Roosters successful Sunday's elimination last astatine Allianz Stadium, which featured a grounds 7 sin-bins.

"I deliberation the Bunker should beryllium lone brought (in) for try-scoring opportunities. The referee needs to instrumentality power of the game. Give the referee power of the crippled back," Gallen said connected Nine's 100% Footy.

Sydney Morning Herald newsman Michael Chammas challenged Gallen.

"So you're not going to kick past erstwhile we get a guy, swinging arm, knocks him out, the referee misses it —," Chammas said.

"The lucifer reappraisal committee gets him anyway," Gallen quipped.

"So you're blessed for (an) on-field play-on?" Chammas replied.

"Yes, and we've got to judge it," Gallen said.

"We've got to judge the referees are quality beings. They whitethorn marque mistakes passim the people of play."

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Chammas continued to prod.

"This is rugby league," helium said.

"We don't judge things successful rugby league."

"Well we person to," Gallen changeable back.

"Do we privation this?

"Besides Origin, (the Roosters-Rabbitohs rivalry) is 1 of the biggest rivalries successful rugby league, and we saw implicit rot connected the tract (on Sunday). It wasn't bully footy played astatine all."

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Three of the 7 sin-bins were enforced successful the opening 20 minutes, with Victor Radley the archetypal antheral fixed his marching orders aft the Roosters fastener punched Rabbitohs winger Taane Milne successful the caput during an off-the-ball wrestle.

Radley and Milne made 2 trips to the misdeed bin during the match, portion Tevita Tatola, Tom Burgess and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves were besides ordered off.

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"People are spraying the referees and getting stuck into the referees. I don't deliberation the referee mislaid excessively overmuch control, to beryllium honest," Gallen added.

"What tin helium bash erstwhile a player's laying down and the Bunker gets involved?

"The Bunker shouldn't get progressive successful wide play. Let the referee instrumentality immoderate power and instrumentality immoderate onus of the crippled ... it's similar they're not controlling it anymore ... if the referee and the interaction judges don't spot thing incorrect with the tackle, the crippled should flow. Let the crippled play on."

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Gould backed up Gallen.

"I've been saying for 10 years that the Bunker was the bladed extremity of a wedge that would extremity up destroying this game," Gould said.

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"You get a absorption similar we person to HIA (head wounded assessment) and concussion and the mode we're treating those and you get an oversensitive refereeing radical ... there's evidently directions to the lucifer reappraisal committee and to the Bunker connected the mode they deliberation this crippled should beryllium officiated and it results successful the vexation and everything that we saw (in Sunday's elimination final).

"I saw very, precise fewer incidents successful that crippled that should warrant a sin-bin, but from the clip they sent Victor Radley disconnected successful the archetypal 3 minutes with an perfectly innocuous lawsuit the modular was set, and they decided that they would conscionable forge connected with it for the remainder of the crippled to get that result.

"To maine (that) is an embarrassment to our code. Our codification has embarrassed america a fig of times implicit the past fewer seasons, but that was culminating to wherever I ever feared it would get to. That was not a crippled of football. It was not a large advertisement of our game."

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