News Graham Annesley weekly football briefing - Round 16

[Mr Invisible]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/07/08/graham-annesley-weekly-football-briefing---round-16/

About 28 minutes in he talks about the Hiku HIA that resulted in a try.

Badger got the rule wrong (re stop of play), and sounds like he'll cop it.

Not sure whos asking questions but one female journo is (rightfully) going for the throat.

Brent Read absolutely hammers him in the end over the Flanagan kneeing incident and allowing him to play this week

 

[Raysie]

Badger was dropped last time for the Nene Macdonald HIA incident earlier this year as well. The one this time around was just dumb. He stooped there staring at Hiku and did nothing, it was ridiculous.

What did he say about the NO TRY to Ken Maumalo? It was a square up for the TRY they gave to the Warriors last week? lol

 

[Mr Invisible]

"They got that one wrong". Blamed the referees coaches and will have a word to them.

Pretty much said they have multiple camera angles but should have stopped at the first one, and there was no need to check a second angle.

 

[Raysie]

Pretty much said they have multiple camera angles but should have stopped at the first one, and there was no need to check a second angle.

That answer there just shows they have no clue.

The fact of the matter is the on-field ref went to the Bunker with his opinion that it was a TRY. The only way under their own guidelines that they can overturn the on-field call is if they're beyond no doubt that it's wrong. Obviously in this case they weren't beyond doubt! My issue with the Bunker stems more with this than anything else.

 

[Kaz]

Brent Read absolutely hammers him in the end over the Flanagan kneeing incident and allowing him to play this week

The Fox commentators were going off their heads when Lodge tripped him.

They ate humble pie when they saw what lead to it.

Flanagan takes after his father, a fucking grub.

 

[KiwiDog7]

Warriors got robbed by the refs but still won

 

[Doggies2015]

The Fox commentators were going off their heads when Lodge tripped him.

They ate humble pie when they saw what lead to it.

Flanagan takes after his father, a fucking grub.

Tbf so were a lot of people until they saw the replay

 

[Heckler]

Love the Badge. Don't sack the Badge.

 

[Kaz]

Tbf so were a lot of people until they saw the replay

If it was any other player apart from Lodge, no one would have said a thing.

The commentators were frothing at the mouth.

 

[Mr Invisible]

That answer there just shows they have no clue.

The fact of the matter is the on-field ref went to the Bunker with his opinion that it was a TRY. The only way under their own guidelines that they can overturn the on-field call is if they're beyond no doubt that it's wrong. Obviously in this case they weren't beyond doubt! My issue with the Bunker stems more with this than anything else.

There just doesn't seem to be any logical sense put into the decisions.

Whatever happened to "benefit of the doubt" and "refs call" descisions.

 

[TABOO]

The Fox commentators were going off their heads when Lodge tripped him.

They ate humble pie when they saw what lead to it.

Flanagan takes after his father, a fucking grub.

That knee was fucking deplorable.
If it was a prop kneeing a halfback, we would NEVER hear the end of it.
He should have got 8+ weeks IMO to send a very clear message that this kind of BS will not be accepted.
The inconsistency drives me nuts.

 

[TABOO]

"They got that one wrong". Blamed the referees coaches and will have a word to them.

Same dribble every single week and yet it still happens without fail.
Garbage refs we have in this game.

 

[Alan79]

Do people still think an Annesley apology is anything more than moisturising lotion for severe burns. The refereeing of the game has been modified every year to make sure that new grey areas apply which allows the results to be manipulated. And the refs still have to cheat to get the results required.

 

[The_Chimpster]

The problem is, there's no accountability or consequences when a ref or the bunker fucks up, with only the refs boss coming out and issuing a South Park like "we're sorry" "ohhh so sorry" but it doesn't change the result.
This year was supposed to be a year of "change" where the refs got a plethora of support and massive upgrade in their wages, if anything the result is worse than last year, and that says a lot because I didn't think the standard of reffing could get any lower, but alas I was wrong