What you are missing (ignoring?) is that Trindall ran behind the ref, when he was fully entitled to run in front of the ref, he could have defended directly in front of the ref if he wanted. The ref didn't position himself in front of Trindall, Trindall chose to run behind the ref, that's his choice and he has to live with the consequences, he then doesn't get to claim obstruction.
The ref was an obstruction (we can debate forever about how much of an obstruction) but the relevant question is who caused the obstruction, there is only one answer, Trindall.
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So how exactly did he run behind the ref if he collided with the ref? Are you saying the ref collided with him then because Ziggy was moving backwards into the in goal. Well, thats an obstruction anyways because Kiks was going in that direction. Or are you saying he should have run around the front of the ref who was moving backwards? If he cannot go A to B because of the ref - thats still obstruction.
If I'm Trindall and 80kg wringing wet and see Kiks coming at me from 8m out, I'm not charging him to tackle him. I'm trying to get in front of Kiks and tie up the ball.
Back at work today and spoke to a range of others supporters from other teams about the weekend. To a man they reckon we were pretty unlucky with the Nikora non send off. No one felt that this was a wrong decision.
But thats cool. I've watched that 3 times and haven't changed my view. The NRL does not support your view. Not one commentator supports your view. Not one supporter from another team I know supports your view (and I left the sharkies boys out of it). As I said before, plenty to complain about in this game but this one, pretty on point with the rules. 100% on the ref. But its not against the rules.
And, in case we want to go there, you want to compare that to the storm, that was more interesting. Hughes was obstructed but no doubt initiated the contact and no try was scored on that play. So the bunker is not involved and per the rules, could be argued that it never affected play as Hughes made the tackle. So play on.
So not missing anything or ignoring anything. Some spend their entire life here arguing the rules are not followed. He we have the rules being followed and people are still arguing. Maybe they just like to argue.