‘Blatant penalty’: How the Roosters got lucky with winning field goal

[KambahOne]

They even do it during general play kicks. Not so much a wall but every team puts a blocker in to stop the marker getting to the half on last tackle.

Exactly. The only thing that will happen now is they'll change the rule, just like they did with the ball hitting the training rule.

 

[KambahOne]

Doesn't make it right when the next team that does this gets penalised.

The word that will then come to mind is consistency, which is a word that shouldn't be used in the same sentence as NRL.

Consistency will never happen while ever humans are involved in the decision making.

 

[gbrussell]

I think another point I will raise about these blockers in front of a field goal kicker, is that markers attempting a field goal charge down are not always square. It is also very rare for markers to be penalised in this situation. Hence the attacking side takes matters into their own hands.

Needs to be sorted at the end of the season.

I have seen a few tries over the years either in Golden Point or late in the 80 minutes, when the whistle is more often than not in the pocket, where a field goal has been charged down by an offside player, the ball is picked up by the offending team and he races the length of the field to score.

 

[TwinTurbo]

It’s 100% bullshit! If the 2 players standing alongside the ruck aren’t there to physically impede the defenders then what in the fark are they there for? To look pretty? They are also deliberately “downtown” from the kicker, another reason to penalise them.

The solution is the Geoff Robinson approach to the Parramatta wall, smash through the bastards.

Always a Bulldog

 

[gbrussell]

It’s 100% bullshit! If the 2 players standing alongside the ruck aren’t there to physically impede the defenders then what in the fark are they there for? To look pretty? They are also deliberately “downtown” from the kicker, another reason to penalise them.

The solution is the Geoff Robinson approach to the Parramatta wall, smash through the bastards.

Always a Bulldog

And they are attacking players inside the 5 metres. In the 80's there were occasional blitzes where teams with the ball were pinged for being inside the 5, and then it was forgotten about.

To the best of knowledge it is still in the rule book.

Please Refer to my earlier post in this thread TT where a junior team I was involved with were pinged for the Geoff Robinson crash through in extra time of a preliminary final.

 

[Cappuccino]

Need AI referring ASAP

 

[dogluva]

NRL defends Roosters young gun Sam Walker's match-winner against Titans despite claims of wall

Why NRL is OK with controversial 'wall' ploy

'Not going to change rules' after Roosters match-winner

wwos.nine.com.au

NRL head of football Graham Annesley has defended Roosters young gun Sam Walker's match-winning field-goal despite concerns the Tricolours deployed an illegal wall during the play.

With less than three minutes remaining during the Roosters' elimination final over the Titans last weekend, Walker knocked through the game-deciding field-goal that handed his side a one-point win.

Immediately after the game, concerns were raised over whether Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Victor Radley formed an illegal wall to block Titans players, namely Mitch Rein who was at marker, from putting pressure on the field goal attempt.

Under the laws of the game, "If two or more players form a wall (side by side) next to the play the ball and don't allow the opportunity for a defending player to move directly towards the player in possession, the referee will penalise for obstruction."


Annesley said despite the side by side efforts of Waerea-Hargreaves and Victor Radley, Rein wasn't blocked or denied an attempt to put pressure on Walker.


"The real issue is whether those players actually prevent an opposition player or defender from moving toward the play in possession," he said.




"We saw looking at Mitch Rein that he got through and he was able to put pressure on the kicker."

The NRL's football boss then went on to explain that the incident wasn't the only time this season where a similar action has been deployed.


Speaking to reporters regarding the matter, Annesley played a number of similar moments throughout the season to confirm the NRL is fine with players forming a wall, so long as it doesn't impede the opposing team's effort to put pressure on the field goal attempt.

"We tend to look at incidents sometimes in isolation and not look at how they've been dealt with over the course of the year," Annesley added.

"We're not going to change the rules that we've been playing under all year just because we're in the finals series.

 

[E320coupe]

Complete and utter madness!

WTF!

 

[bricktamland]

Anyone remember the verrils high hit ? No offence but if that was any other team it would be a send off 110% it’s just so inconsistent , it’s like playing chicken with a revolver

 

[GoTheDoggies]

What a fake controversy this is.

This is a diversion tactic onto the real fuckup which was the Gutherino Billy Slater drop kick try.

 

[Motorhead]

Anyone remember the verrils high hit ? No offence but if that was any other team it would be a send off 110% it’s just so inconsistent , it’s like playing chicken with a revolver

Yep, watch Verrils get it downgraded tomorrow night and be free to play. Shoulder straight to the face, no sin-bin but the bloke on the receiving end had to leave the field. Roosters and Parra got a leg-up on the weekend, no secret the NRL would of preferred those 2 playing next weekend instead of Knights and Titans so they got a helping hand.

 

[bricktamland]

Yep, watch Verrils get it downgraded tomorrow night and be free to play. Shoulder straight to the face, no sin-bin but the bloke on the receiving end had to leave the field. Roosters and Parra got a leg-up on the weekend, no secret the NRL would of preferred those 2 playing next weekend instead of Knights and Titans so they got a helping hand.

Vlandys is politis best mate too.. fact. It’s just annoying cause when you’ve followed the dogs you notice it all more and it’s hard not to see

 

[gbrussell]

Is it any wonder that fans are falling out of love with the game.

 

[bricktamland]

Is it any wonder that fans are falling out of love with the game.

Yeah mate for sure it’s just typical as we get older and people get stupider. Take me back to the days where all we had was msn and MySpace

 

[KambahOne]

Anyone remember the verrils high hit ? No offence but if that was any other team it would be a send off 110% it’s just so inconsistent , it’s like playing chicken with a revolver

It should have been 10 in the bin but asking for it to be a send off is ridiculous. Verills doesn't move. He stands there, doesn't adjust his height and the Titans playing gets tackled a split second before his head slams into Verill's shoulder. And we have every right to challenge the grading so why shouldn't we?

 

[DirtyDog72]

I find it quiet amusing that since Trent Robinson's press conference after the Latrell Mitchell incident, the Roosters have won the last two penalty counts, 6 to goes, and 50/50 calls, as much as Souths were the better team against Penrith on the weekend, Bennett complained about the blocking and penalty count from their last clash, then on Saturday night, souths win the penalty count, and the first chance Cleary had to kick, the kick blocker was warned numerous times on the run by the ref. Yet in Sunday's game Sua was the kick blocker for Newcastle that deliberately went out of his way to take out the Parramatta chaser, no penalty, no warning, apparently that rule didn't apply to that game, only the Souths v Penrith game.

 

[senshidog]

Roosters scored directly off the back of Titans being penalised for a high tackle 20cm off the ground too.
Parras try was fair enough. It was close but frame by frame shows Gutho just kicked it as it was about to hit ground.

 

[Motorhead]

Roosters scored directly off the back of Titans being penalised for a high tackle 20cm off the ground too.
Parras try was fair enough. It was close but frame by frame shows Gutho just kicked it as it was about to hit ground.

I reckon it was pretty clear the ball hit the ground before shithead kicked it. Should of 100% been called a knock-on. And that Hymel Hunt one they said he knocked on before he put it into touch, what a crock of shit that was it wasn't even definitive after 5 looks at it in slow motion. If anything the replays showed he didn't touch it. Yet some arsehole touch judge reckons he could see it from 30 metres away yet the incompetent flogs can't even manage to see a 5 metre forward pass. Parra were never going to be allowed to lose that game, the fix was in.

 

[KambahOne]

So we couldn't get Verills charge downgraded...so much for Nick being best mates with Pete and us being the NRL pets...it's an outrage I tell ya's!!!