Annesley Warns Bulldogs To Cut Out Go-Slow Tactics

[dogluva]

The ref didn't seem to think we were holding down excessively.

He pinged us after 34 seconds therefore if he had concerns he would have continued to penalise us

00:34- Penalty - Slow Peel
PENALTY - SLOW PEEL
Adam Elliott

Bulldogs

 

[Dogzof95]

The NRL were more than happy to welcome back Matt Cecchin after his initial decision to quit the game. He was not happy with the way referees were instructed to micro manage games which is basically what they are now saying they will resume with the crackdown. No more allowing them to officiate to the flow of the game......


https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/03/08...l-after-super-league-delays-two-referee-move/

Changes to the way referees will control matches have convinced Matt Cecchin to return to the NRL ranks after visa complications and a decision by Super League clubs to postpone the introduction of two whistle blowers scuttled his plans to move to England.

While waiting for his visa, Cecchin has been in regular contact with new NRL head of elite football operations Graham Annesley and he immediately advised him of his desire to resume refereeing after last year quitting because of the constant abuse and disillusionment with the way match officials were instructed to control games.

However, he readily admits he didn’t like the style of refereeing in the NRL last season and decided to move to England as Super League is the only other professional competition in the world.

I'll call BS on that, the refs are asking for a pay rise and it's in the vicinity of $300K for top line refs, that's the reason his back! I thought he was getting death threats, and was worried about his family?

 

[blue & white blood]

NRL head of football Graham Annesley has put the spotlight on Canterbury’s spoiling tactics in last Friday’s 14-6 loss to South Sydney and warned that teams attempting to slow play-the-balls risk heavy penalty counts against them.

Annesley produced statistics at his weekly media briefing that showed a whopping 38 per cent of play-the-balls by Rabbitohs players had been in excess of four seconds – a figure which supported Souths coach Wayne Bennett’s accusation that the Bulldogs had set out to interfere in the ruck.

Rejecting suggestions the negative tactics had started creeping into games across the Telstra Premiership, Annesley said the Canterbury-Souths clash was the only game in which play-the-ball speeds had not been at an acceptable level and it was only one team which consistently infringed.

In contrast to the statistics for the Rabbitohs, just 24 per cent of play-the-balls by Bulldogs players had been beyond four seconds.

This is comparable with the 26 per cent average for matches so far this season, which is between last year’s average of 24 per cent of play-the-balls taking longer than four seconds and 27 per cent in 2017.

Match officials consider anything higher than 30 per cent to be an unacceptable level.

As a result, referee Henry Perenara was forced to award 20 penalties in the match and Annesley laid the blame for the stop-start nature of the game on the players and coaches.

Annesley said he wanted referees to stay out of matches as much as possible and had encouraged them to minimise their involvement, but also insisted they would referee what was in front of them.

“The extent to which the referees can stay out of the game will largely depend on the approach that the coaches and players take into each game,” he said.

“We have seen some games with less than 10 penalties and we have seen other games where they are up around the 20 mark.

“The referees have got a responsibility to judge each game on its merits and to adopt the approach that is required for that game.

"The referees know that is their responsibility and they know that if clubs are going to try and get an unfair advantage by the approach they take to a game then they have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.”

The 12-8 penalty count to Souths coincided with a spike in penalties, with 113 awarded across the eight matches last weekend compared to 86 the week before and 88 in Round 4.

The previous highest numbers of penalties for a round this season was 103 in Round 2.

"If that is because coaches and players are starting to feel that they can push the envelope and they can get away with it, this again demonstrates that they won’t be permitted to do that. The referees will judge that game by game,” Annesley said.

“We want to give the game back to the fans, we don’t want the referees involved in the games but the players and the coaches have to help us with that. If they are not prepared to do that we will see penalty counts continue to rise but we have to judge that on each game.

“It’s the players and the tactics that dictate that so we are not going to let anyone off the hook with this.

“We are not going to have a rule-of-the-week, we are not going to have a clamp down … but for clubs that go out with a plan to slow the game down, to be all over the opposition … they have to take responsibility for the consequences of that because we are not going to.”

Annesley said he had no plans to speak to Canterbury coach Dean Pay or any other coaches about the impact of go-slow tactics but they needed to be aware of the consequences.

“If they think they can get an advantage by interfering in the play-the-balls and slowing games down, they roll the dice on that,” he said.

“I am not going to be accountable when they come whinging about being penalised because if you do the crime, you do the time, basically.

“The job of a coach is to win football games and they will take tactics into a game that they think will help them win … but I don’t want the blame to be put back on to referees or the administration for decisions that are solely in the hands of the players and the coaches.

"If they try to breach the rules to an unacceptable level to win games then they run the risk that they are going to be disadvantaged by the outcome of penalty counts.”

 

[blue & white blood]

That Bloody Bastard Annesley, I have lost count of how many times His Fucking Henchmen have robbed us of games then the prick calls us to apologies. and now he warns us of spoiling tactics, He should be warning his own staff for corruption, Just another ploy by the NRL to kick us when we're down.

 

[86Gtown]

Analeasy ( annesley ) can go eat a big hairy dick

 

[Bull Terrier]

I find it strange how all the pressure is on the dogs now and the refs will be on us even more than usual. This is thanks to the prick Bennett so he can take the pressure of his team for not smashing us. Lets see how many penalties are called against souths opponents now. The refs have always had the discretion on when to blow a penalty nothing has changed. Thats why for me they determine who wins and loses.

 

[Mr Invisible]

Analeasy ( annesley ) can go eat a big hairy dick

@86Gtown I was tossing up between AnalSleeve, and AnalEase ... but that works as well.

 

[dogluva]

I'll call BS on that, the refs are asking for a pay rise and it's in the vicinity of $300K for top line refs, that's the reason his back! I thought he was getting death threats, and was worried about his family?

Yes he was getting death threats as well and a combination of both led to him looking to go to ESL but that fell through when the two referee system got put on hold....

 

[Superuber]

Except the stats backup that it is different, do they not?

Not sure what you really trying to do with your argument, it looks like you are trying to trigger a negative response and get off on it.
you are using stats to back up your argument however you seem to have missed that the ones mentioned in the article are averages for all games over a year against the Bulldogs V Souths game. This would include games featuring stats higher and lower than the Good Friday match.
If we can have the figures from individual games from 2018 we would see which teams abuse the ruck more often than others

 

[Dogzof95]

Yes he was getting death threats as well and a combination of both led to him looking to go to ESL but that fell through when the two referee system got put on hold....

So he decides to return to the position where he was getting death threats.

 

[kungfuman]

So he decides to return to the position where he was getting death threats.

Its that or train conductor!

 

[Mr Invisible]

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/de...-cecchin-to-quit-the-nrl-20180802-p4zv6x.html

Good article there about Cecchin.

 

[86Gtown]

@86Gtown I was tossing up between AnalSleeve, and AnalEase ... but that works as well.

Pmsl both are better then mine lol. We shall dubb thee sir Analsleeve

 

[GrogDog]

Happened again tonight, Warriors should have won that game yet Matt "Not" Checkin gifted Storm another 2 points. I'm just not watching anymore Storm or Rorters games, the blatant cheating is doing my head in and I just don't need it in my life.