Official Belinda Sharpe breaks new ground as first female NRL referee

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She will do a horrible fucken job but it wont be any worse than the current mongs fucking up game after game. The NRL might as well employ rock apes to officiate, it cannot get any worse. Good onya luv, don't burn the scones at halftime FFS.
 

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What a pioneer indeed. Woman of power ! Would love to see her do well.

I suspect regardless of her performance, some dickheads are just going to focus on any marginal errors she might make.

I hope she shows that she no better or worst off than her male counterparts, so we see more women in the game.

I have no doubt the players will show her respect but I’m not so sure about those in the peanut gallery.
 

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Associated rule changes:

1) Penalties now awardable for infringements 8 weeks later.

2) Selected previous infringements never forgotten, raised when convenient and penalised again.

3) Captains querying decisions told ‘If you don’t know what you’ve done’.
 

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You think the current referees don't admit there wrong, Now we have a Woman Ref God help us Women are never wrong.
 

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Well we're f**ked now.
 

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Dogs penalty count vs Brisbane in Brisbane:
Normally 1-8
Rookie ref 1-18
Rookie ref on rags 1-180000
 

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@Realist90 :grinning: woman can be referees too!

Probably a scape goat. If she has a shocker NRL will sack her and say "see we do sack refs for bad performances".
 

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LOL good luck to her.
Watch her cave to the crowd pressure and #penaltybroncos will be trending on twitter.
 

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Problem is why is a QLDer from Brisbane doing a game in Brisbane for a QLD team.

That stinks, nothing wrong with being female but send her down to Sydney and have her ref one of the games where there is no conflict there.
 

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Pretty confident we can beat Broncos.

They are shit house. We are shit house too tho.
 

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What a pioneer indeed. Woman of power ! Would love to see her do well.

I suspect regardless of her performance, some dickheads are just going to focus on any marginal errors she might make.

I hope she shows that she no better or worst off than her male counterparts, so we see more women in the game.

I have no doubt the players will show her respect but I’m not so sure about those in the peanut gallery.
Good luck to her indeed. Nothing against a female in the job, the blokes are doing a ratshit job so there is no harm in trying something different. Can't see her being much chop though TBH, I remember her running the touch lines in NYC a few years ago and she blatantly missed a ball bouncing 50cm over the sideline.
At least she will be thankful that Hungry Haynesy isn't on the field.
 

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been to a lot of qcup games she has reffed, seems to be consistent and fair, quite a few people give her give her shit during the games for no real reason, chanting cmon barbie lets go barbie
 

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Cummins hates us enough and now they put a rookie Queensldander on top
 

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Associated rule changes:

1) Penalties now awardable for infringements 8 weeks later.

2) Selected previous infringements never forgotten, raised when convenient and penalised again.

3) Captains querying decisions told ‘If you don’t know what you’ve done’.
4) When querying where to take a penalty kick, Ref "I don't care. Where do you want to kick it from?"
 

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She honestly can't be any worse than what we already have.
 

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Look, I'm going to make a point here. Do people remember the Women's SoO that was on a few weeks ago? Why didn't she officiate that game then? Why have a male referee in the middle when this one was available? If women really want equality, why not have them all officiate women's games, and have men officiate the NRL games (and this includes the touch judges)?
 
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