precursor wrote:Video refs not being able to rule on forward passes has to be one of the stupidest rules in the NRL. It works absolutely fine in union and it’s virtually the same thing as ruling on a knock on.
That was one of the #codeincrisis moments back in the day, where video refs rules passes forward that may/may not have been backwards out of the hand so they decided it was too hard.
But then in a recent game you had a ref pretend a pass was a bat-on so they could rule on it anyway. Which shows the absurdity.
If they get the chip in the ball to work though, I fear we will never get through a set of six without a forward pass from dummy half. At least for a few rounds.
Other things I don't like:
* golden point in regular season games
* golden point, generally. It's bad footy to watch, with a few rare exceptions
* the 7-tackle set restart if a ball goes dead. Seems disproportionate punishment for a grubber going a bit long
* the other team not being able to pickup a kick restart that doesn't go 10m
* tries being allowed from grounding with your torso, or anything that isn't a hand
* tries being allowed when a guy is wrestling in a tackle, held-up, for 15-20 seconds, way after it would be called held anywhere else
* anything that is reffed differently in the goals compared to the 100m in between
* the way refs will let the play go to a try, so they can get the video ref to check something 50m earlier. One day a player will deliberately get tackled 5m out to end that nonsense.
Also I like field goals but it's weird that the act of kicking a field goal involves a deliberate knock-on. Which makes me think, if a guy drops a pass cold, but kicks it on the bounce, should it not just be play on? Why aren't players doing this? Aside from that one time Benji scored that way, I mean?