: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:35 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Just like last week when this same referee put Westwood on report (5 matches) but no card, Mogg penalty but no card and Fakir not even a fooking penalty (1 match) let alone a card of some kind?

Like I said last week about Robinson, he's a typical Aussie Referee, anything below the temple is fair game.

But what I seriously don't get is whenever a player is injured in the NRL the referee's almost always uses the breathing space to ask the video referee to at least review what has caused the injury if there's a possibility of foul play.

If Robinson has done this in the last two weeks I must have missed it.

Hope we never see Jason ' Barry Manilow' Robinson again.

I sure the ref was getting help from upstairs later on in the game, he certainly had his finger in his ear a lot

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:38 pm  

hopie4ever wrote:

I sure the ref was getting help from upstairs later on in the game, he certainly had his finger in his ear a lot

That'll be to lesson the whining noises coming from the whinging poms, especially Ganson.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:40 pm  

Eccleshill Rhino wrote:

I thought it was a fair shot - what was Whatmough supposed to do - he simply ran over Burrow - no swinging arm a hit not unlike a few SBW put on a couple of Leeds players.

The pass was simply appalling - summed up Peacock's contribution tbh ie more of a hinderance than a help last night.

A bad pass does not technically give the defender the right to smash someone in the face, and because Burrow is smaller than most does not give the defender the right to smash him in the face. The angle from behind the tackler clearly shows him swinging his right arm - that's a "swinging arm" I believe.
I did think Burrow slipped a bit (but then you would try and duck if soemones coming to kock your head off), but how many times do you ever see a guy penalised for a high shot that knocks a player unconcious without him getting at least a yellow.
If you replace the Manly player with Adrian Morely and Robinson with Ganson and you're looking at a straight red.
I don't think there was much intent in the colission but I can't understand why the ref gave a penalty if the tackle was okay?

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:41 pm  

hopie4ever wrote:

I sure the ref was getting help from upstairs later on in the game, he certainly had his finger in his ear a lot

Either that or he's a folk singer in his spare time.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:41 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

I don't think there was much intent in the colission but I can't understand why the ref gave a penalty if the tackle was okay?

It wasn't - as some have asserted - for offside as it was given at the point where Burrow was felled rather than ten metres upfield from the play the ball...

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:51 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

but how many times do you ever see a guy penalised for a high shot that knocks a player unconcious without him getting at least a yellow.

Last week at Warrington for one.

Not all crippling head shots even got penalised that day by this particular 'so called' official.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:53 pm  

he slipped and was falling backwards

Re: Burrow getting KO'd : Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:59 pm  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

Perhaps the referees, who are also there to protect a player's welfare from foul play, did their jobs a bit more too ?

No foul play on Sunday night. Just a big smash.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:01 pm  

John D H wrote:

Personally I think Peacock deserves a real rollocking for passing him the ball in the first place.

Indeed.

Re: Burrow getting KO'd : Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:04 pm  

Boris wrote:

No foul play on Sunday night. Just a big smash.

It would appear the ref took a different opinion. But then what would a fully trained and experienced official know eh?