Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:24 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

So which penalties is it "commonsense" to ignore, out of interest?

The main one would be the marginal holding down decisions that made up a majority of the penalties and led to the game descending in to touch and pass. Again, it's unhelpful to have this interpretation now and then have a completely different one in big games/internationals (and even the second half!!).

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:17 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Excellent performance by Hicks, and ironically it was exactly because THE PLAYERS were deliberately trying to slow the game down that he blew most of the earlier penalties. Every one was justified, and unless you take the view that every team should be allowed a number of free shots, you have to agree the pens were right.

Players see how far they can go with refs. They try to get away with stuff and play to the limits. All that happened was they didn't think Hicks would stick to his guns and so stupidly continued infringing. Blame them.

Put us on a team warning after far less number of penalties. Inconsistent.

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:53 pm  

Sin-binned Carney for a palm in the face of Sims, yet the same ref only penalised Pritchard last week for doing exactly the same thing!

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:55 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Put us on a team warning after far less number of penalties. Inconsistent.

Wasn't that Bentham?

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 6:09 pm  

moto748 wrote:

Reluctantly I'm coming to the conclusion that we need a RU-style "Try: Yes or No?" option for refs if they genuinely aren't sure/can't see,

Spot on!

When the ref and touchies aren't sure send it up for the two VRs to try and make sure of what happened, not try and prove the ref's guess wrong.

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:38 pm  

Wow. That was not a try.

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:41 pm  

Willzay wrote:

Wow. That was not a try.

More obstruction than the Cas disallowed try last week and less downward pressure than Ryan Shaw for Hull KR, also disallowed.

But hey it's Leeds so got to give it!

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:44 pm  

And how the hell is that a penalty?

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:53 pm  

100% try. Belt up.

Re: Refs : Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:57 pm  

Surely there's a difference between downward pressure of fingers on a ball and downward pressure of the ball on the ground - and the latter is required?