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Ruined by Officials!

We had that game but for the refs spineless decision making. We all know that there should have been a sending off and a perfectly good try disallowed. I think this all came from Sheen's coments earlier on this week,now thats a sign of a coach under pressure. Well what 2 fantastic tries Hall scored today,well done Hall. Lets pray and hope the officials make a fair game next weekend.

posted on 6/11/11

Sorry I've only just read your previous piece of garbage for an excuse.
Here is what you suggesting Noble said and you believe to be correct...

(If you heard Nobles comments about the rules then you can see where were coming from,he said that the BALL CARRYING ARM DIDN'T TOUCH THE GROUND then its a try according to the laws of the game not the ball.
FACT!)

Are you serious Northern, are you trying to tell me the friggin ball can touch the ground in a double movement and it doesn't matter because it's not the arm carrying the ball........you plonker, Ivé heard it all now...

posted on 6/11/11

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posted on 6/11/11

Not sure too many people care bearing in mind that the "fans" couldn't even fill the bottom third of the stadium, and this was for a major internatonal between, (purpordedly) the top 2 teams in the world.

Disgraceful.

posted on 6/11/11

Ha! Ha! Ha!.... can't handle the truth Northern...tell me, did the referee tell Stanley to kick from the quarter line instead of a traditional tap kick......

posted on 6/11/11

The Aussies just about deserved it but with a few more decisions going our way it would have led to a very exciting end with only one score in it.

However Chase did mess up with his kick and these are not ref's decisions, just seen the Briscoe incident and I can't see where he touches the ground at all.

I have a feeling the Kiwi's will now turn us over as we have had our final.

posted on 6/11/11

Sheens comments in the week got to the ref.
Williams should have walked.
Briscoe's try wasn't double movement.
Under no circumstances should this ref be allowed to referee the final, as Sheens talk will get to him again.

posted on 6/11/11

Big-Fella, Do you honestly believe a referee blows his whistle according to what a coach says the week before.

That is nearly as weak as saying, when he was a child he was a Bradford supporter and now it shows....

They are professional and get paid accordingly so there is no need to consider anything but refereeing straight down the line....albeit they are only human and we all make mistakes, that doesn't make us weak or misguided.

posted on 7/11/11

Rabbits i stick by my earlier comments that Sheens comments in the week got to him.
He might be a good ref in the NRL like Tony Archer, but like Archer he comes up short on the international front.
Unlike Archer he is likely to improve and given time will make a good international ref.
I'm sure he realises when he looks back at the video that he made some big mistakes and them mistakes favored Australia. I'm not saying England would have won, but his mistakes stopped would would have been a nail biting finish. I think it would be a mistake to let him ref the Final if England reach it.,as he would be aware that every call he made would be analised, and the pressure would get to him yet again.

posted on 7/11/11

A ref can only be expcted to give what he thinks is the right decision on the field, from what he saw, so mistakes happen and are totally understandable, however

He saw the high shot and used the magical cop out rule of on report, which shows if acting totally impartial, he isnt the type of ref to make the big decisions unless 100% has to or is 100% sure

then under 5 min later he acted like a ref who is 100% sure of himself and gives what he see's regardless of linesman video refs and chalks off briscoes try

I dont care if a ref gets stuff wrong but that performance was full of contradictions, even all other decisions aside, as mistakes happen, he saw that briscoe try and had 3 choices
Try
No Try
Video ref

so what are his conditions on each?
I sure he scored
Im sure he didnt
Im not sure

hence hes a liar, because he cant have been sure he never scored cos he did.

Im not saying he though "ha ha im gonna cheat" im saying he had some sort of biased that stopped him processing every decision the same regardless of team the team it happen too

posted on 7/11/11

I can't believe what I heard this morning......Williams will miss just one game.

What a load of toss that is, that tackle deserves at least 4 matches if not 6.

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