Re: Video ref : Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:08 pm  

bellycouldtackle wrote:

I don't blame ref for last nights results, he made several calls that turned out to wrong, thats understandable, no way can a ref be expected to get all decisions correct, balls steals or knock on, tackled in the air or competing for the ball, grounding the ball or knock on, onside offside etc etc. At full speed, live, with just one view it must be a very tough job. That said when there is a video ref at the game there is no reason for these calls to be made incorrectly. We should lean from RU on this, the infield refs and video refs in RU are talking all the time, the video ref advises about foul play, when the ball is in play the ref asks video ref to look at a play and advise him. Watching the Lions last Saturday the video ref and on field ref worked perfectly together, RL should copy and learn. Last night there were some tough calls for the ref that he got wrong, he should have asked for help and then every decision would have been correct, would it of changed the result , probably not but it would avoid the feeling that I have that we were on the wrong end of the luck. By the way the last penalty for been offside at the kick off was pathetic and I believe the ref was an booty for making that call

There is a big difference though between the two games. Whilst League is fast and furious, Union has long static phases when the ref might as well have a chat with his mates as there is nothing else happening on the field.

Re: Video ref : Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:11 pm  

I actually thought Kendall did ok. Yeah he made some errors but that happens every game. Thought he controlled it reasonably well and didn't get too whistle happy with ruck penalties. A couple of poor decisions in there but thats par for the course. Impossible being an RL ref need ten pairs of eyes. Linesman need to do more for me. We need to just suck it up, our errors gifted them momentum and to our credit we halted it and got our noses back in front. 100% effort but some intermittent brain farts at crucial times did us over

Re: Video ref : Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:06 pm  

tigertot wrote:

Surprisingly most Wakey fans were happy with the ref in the first half.

No he was garbage in the first half also. How many times did he speak to shenton but he never put Cas on a team warning.

Re: Video ref : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:26 pm  

I'm not overly fussed about the ref - given the speed and intensity of the game, I thought he did alright; some bad decisions, but it probably balanced out.

Re: Video ref : Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:35 pm  

It's not the ref that's cost us the match, along with this match and also a few other previous close matches, we should have had the game won. Trinity seem to come up with either wrong decisions at crucial points in the match [E.G. last night not taking the 2 points for a second kickable penalty when we had just kicked a 2 pointer a couple of min's before] Not been prepared for short kick off immediately after we had gone 6 points in front late on in match. giving stupid penalties away when pressure is been applied by opposing team at crucial moments of the game.
We seem to get too overly excited, no calming influence at moments when an opposing side can get back on the front foot against us. A first class player, leader and captain who gets his message across to the other players when we are under pressure is needed. With that i think we are in a excellent position with the players we have to continue on an upward climb in the S.L and become one of the best teams in the league in future seasons.

Re: Video ref : Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:39 am  

Disney cat wrote:

No he was garbage in the first half also. How many times did he speak to shenton but he never put Cas on a team warning.

No he wasn't. On the night I thought he had a very good game overall. Having just watched it on TV for the first time there were a few calls he got wrong with the benefit of replays. None were as embarrassing, obvious or inexcusable as the errors made by players of both sides, often very early in the tackle count. Your faux outrage is pathetic.