I don't need to. I'm not bound by their methodology requiring 100% assurity. The overwhelming probability is that he touched it. Even the touch judge thought he touched it ffs.
Definitely don't think we deserved to win that. That penalty at the end was fucking ridiculous. They never blow penalties in Golden Point, not even blatant offside. And you see this happen literally almost every field goal attempt. Tigers are really damn good. Thompson looks like a young Matt Bowen out there, and Brooks looks like he might be turning his career around. He just needs to keep Bunji next to him. Don't drop him for fucking Reynolds.
I can understand frustration at the lack of consistency but at some point they have to start actually penalising it, surely. What good is consistency if they're consistently allowing players to stand metres offside and play under different rules in GP? That's the real issue here.
It’s ridiculous that 20 penalties are let go, and the the ref literally decides the game by giving in easy goal range, by calling, shall we say a ‘questionable’ penalty. If it was called the first set of GP, I’d say good on him for making the call, but not after you’ve let cunts stand offside every tackle and rush the bloke taking a kick and all sorts of shit.
Fair enough but I still think it was a good call by Klein as a potential precedent. I don't care that the call decided the match. In fact I'm glad it did. It's one of the things the NRL should actually be cracking down on imo.
I've seen people whinge about this on facebook. The FG going over is advantage played. What would happen if he slots the FG, but the ref decides to call it back for a penalty, and they miss it?
Bernie Sutton has said it was the wrong call. “Initially, Robbie Rochow doesn’t start square, but he does adjust as the play-the-ball happens. “The other thing is when (Joe) Ofehangaue plays the ball, after playing it he steps towards the left. It gives the illusion to the referees that (Robbie) Rochow is standing standing beside, but he actually does adjust to the point where the ball is to be played."
Yeah, he doesn't. He adjusts after the ball is played. He's offside. The only argument is about whether it was sufficiently offside to blow the pen. Calling that square at marker is ridiculous.
He jumped early, not by much but then Rochow wasn't off square by much either. Go back and watch it admittedly that screenshot is a few frames late but he definitely jumps before the ball has cleared the ruck... which I'm pretty sure is the the definition of the rule?
He's not early. I've watched it a dozen times. The photo I posted shows he's onside. The ball has cleared the ruck and he's square. The ruck is not the area behind the man playing the ball. The ruck is directly below him and in front of him; between he and the marker. As soon as the ball leaves his foot, the defence is permitted to move up.
So rules should be applied differently because of where it happens on the field? What happens if they miss the penalty from in front? Where is the advantage? You're talking shit.
