What's the upside though? You're assuming that they'll make the right decision once it's reviewed. How many times do they already screw up clear cut and obvious video reviews for tries?I am definitely in favour of this.
They get a single challenge. If both fuck it up, the most we lose is what? 60 seconds? Shit, we lose more for a scrum feed these days. What's an extra 2 minutes in a 40 minute half? Another opportunity to get more dip, put some charcoal on for the agila, or take a piss.
And if a captain wins multiple challenges - well - it's just balancing the game when the refs aren't doing their jobs properly. We have had this obsession with speeding the game up, but it is NEVER going to happen. Not with concussion rules, players feigning injury, KFC video ref decisions, dreadful time lost to scrum feeds... I think we need to get over the fact that the game is not as free-flowing as it was once, and accept the way it is currently played.
There is huge upside to this.
So by your logic - if it's wrong the wrong call, then it will always be the wrong call?What's the upside though? You're assuming that they'll make the right decision once it's reviewed. How many times do they already screw up clear cut and obvious video reviews for tries?
As I said earlier, using the NFL and NBA as an example where they've expanded their coaches challenges, almost 90% of the time they confirm the original decision. Even in instances where it's blatantly the wrong decision.
But because they don't want to admit a mistake, and they want to discourage people from continually challenging, they end up dismissing everything regardless.
All this will do is create more controversy and waste time. The refs will never improve or hold themselves accountable.
No, Moghseen Jadwat is who I want running the show! Haha.. My issue is that the refs have been cuckolded by the increased influence of the video ref, which has led to a rapid decline in the basic standards of refereeing.So by your logic - if it's wrong the wrong call, then it will always be the wrong call?
It would seem your issue is not with this idea, but the plague we have with these referees (of which I can agree with).
So if this were an alternate universe, where we had Billy Harrigan, Sean Hamstead and Tim Mander running the show, would you be okay with it?
Bottom line - if this is going to help some situations, then I am for it.
Fair bit of logic used there, of which I cannot refute.No, Moghseen Jadwat is who I want running the show! Haha.. My issue is that the refs have been cuckolded by the increased influence of the video ref, which has led to a rapid decline in the basic standards of refereeing.
It wouldn't matter who was in charge. I remember when Harrigan was refs boss he said they conducted a lengthy review of themselves and their decisions and found that they were right over 95% of the time.
The holes in that flawed logic are too many to list but this is the kind of closed minded and insecure mentality that these referees have and always will. And it's not just the NRL, it's most sporting leagues around the world now. Refs are a union and workforce just like any other and they'll back each other up no matter how wrong they are in order to justify their existence and keep their jobs.
The way i see it, the less video review, the better. They should only be allowed to review blatant foul play and groundings..
The more reliance there is on the video ref, and since two refs came in, refs have become lazier and refuse to back themselves and call what they see because they know it can be reviewed. So they're hesitant and tentative and this will only exascerbate the problem.
We'll see how it goes. I hope it helps things as the last thing the game needs is more refereeing controversies game in game out. The less we talk about the refs, the better.Fair bit of logic used there, of which I cannot refute.
I do agree that a 1 referee system worked better, and the current system has led to some sort of reliance on others.
I just think its getting to a point where the system is rotten enough, and anything to make it better might be beneficial.
TBF to them - the officiating (well, at least the bunker) to start the year last year was really good!We'll see how it goes. I hope it helps things as the last thing the game needs is more refereeing controversies game in game out. The less we talk about the refs, the better.
Lol this **** of a game has no momentumDumb idea captains will challenge to break momentum
Fuck no no no no no, aren’t these muppets supposed to be simplifying the rules not adding more confusion to them, thus creating more and more controversy! This rule as usual will most likely only benefit the top teams with the best argumentative coaches ie Bennett, Bellamy and co. And the likes of us and all the other clubs trying fairly to get a proper fair decision go our way will as usual get fucken shafted like we always have...Fifteen seconds to save a season.
That’s the precious thinking time Boyd Cordner, Cameron Smith, Wade Graham and every other NRL club captain will get for the NRL’s new captain’s challenge rule.
If a captain wants to challenge a knock-on, illegal steal or obstruction in 2020, he will have a ticking clock of just 15 seconds from the moment the incident occurs to lodge an official challenge.
Any longer than 15 seconds and the opportunity is lost. Play on.
The NRL is inching closer to implementing the rule, which they believe could be a game changer for rugby league and an exciting new addition for fans, who for too long have gone home from matches feeling empty after a refereeing howler.
This rule puts the onus — not all, but a large percentage — back on the team’s captain, as opposed to the referee.
Captains will need to rely heavily on the honesty of their teammates in deciding whether to challenge a call. A wrong call could prove monumental.
A premiership could be decided on the back of a captain’s ability to challenge a call, such is the power that every on-field leader could soon possess to review a refereeing decision.
In the heat of battle, imagine the pressure on Cordner coming from pumped-up Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves for his skipper to challenge a call.
Imagine the pressure on Cordner being hurled from fans with the Roosters and Raiders locked-up at 10-10 with only minutes to play.
Imagine Storm coach Craig Bellamy thumping the glass of his coaches box, demanding Cameron Smith challenge the call after Josh Addo-Carr was ruled to have put his boot over the sideline.
And then imagine Bellamy’s face when he realises Smith can’t challenge the decision because he wasted the Storm’s one and only challenge on a referee’s decision in the first-half that replays prove was correct.
The entire strategy and implementation plan for the captain’s challenge rule — including how, when and where captains can use the rule during every match of the 2020 season — is set to be unveiled to the ARL Commission at a crucial meeting in Sydney on Thursday.
The Sunday Telegraph has learned the NRL are leaning towards giving captains 15 seconds — possibly less, but certainly no more — to use their challenge.
What we can also tell you is that after deep consultation and analysis by the NRL football department to ensure the game continues to flow, captains will be given just one challenge per game.
If a captain successfully challenges a call by the referee and the decision is overturned, the captain will keep his one challenge.
But if a challenge is lodged and the replays show the referee’s original call was correct, the captain loses his challenge for the remainder of the match.
Under the current proposal set to be outlined to the Commission, there are limitations on what captains can and can’t challenge during play.
They will be allowed to challenge a decision by the referee to ignore going to the video review bunker for a possible try.
They can also challenge penalties for illegal player strips, obstruction calls, knock-ons, or if a fullback is deemed to have touched a ball rolling dead in-goal.
Captains won’t be allowed to yell “challenge, challenge” at the referee the moment that the opposition is racing away for a runaway try.
ARL chairman Peter V’landys has made no secret of his desire to win back fans and sponsors and increase participation, sponsorship and TV numbers. Which means he isn’t afraid to look outside the square.
When the majority of a surveyed 18,000 fans declared a captain’s challenge was the No.1 rule change they would like to see, NRL head football Graham Annesley revealed in October the code would spend summer preparing for its implementation for the 2020 season.
On Thursday the ARL Commission will decide whether to give the rule change the green light.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...k/news-story/80c85f899a404f5316ed4c2c5260b950
It would if we got rid of the dumb ***** running, refereeing and rorting it!Lol this **** of a game has no momentum