Re: NRL Fantasy 2022 - Part 66 - Couch Party

Watched the Kayo Mini, that is a shocker.

Not even sure how the bunker gets involved, perhaps full time is a stoppage, although it wasn’t when the Raiders played the Dragons.

My sense is the on field ref was clearly shitting his pants and wanted to defer responsibility. Which I get, human nature, and should in theory led to a better decision. But then how does a referee watching on video interpret those events that way to make that decision? It just shows such a terrible feel for what the game should be.

robelgordo wrote:Watched the Kayo Mini, that is a shocker.

Not even sure how the bunker gets involved, perhaps full time is a stoppage, although it wasn’t when the Raiders played the Dragons.

My sense is the on field ref was clearly shitting his pants and wanted to defer responsibility. Which I get, human nature, and should in theory led to a better decision. But then how does a referee watching on video interpret those events that way to make that decision? It just shows such a terrible feel for what the game should be.

At an absolute stretch it was inconclusive which should then defer back to on field ref….full time.

They were absolutely conned by Feldt (and I think it’s fine for him to have a crack with the game on the line) and it was a pretty obvious case of shitting your pants when the pressure was on. It wasn’t a good sign when they took about ten minutes to rule knock on from the Nanai no try.

Papadontbleach wrote:I had a cracking week this week. Would have been better if I hadn’t captained DCE but still happy with my 1069. Made it into the top 500 for the first time ever.

Outstanding!

Been away on all weekend, just caught up on the Kayo mini after hearing about the ref controversy.

This clearly isn't the popular opinion, but......I thought they made the right call.

Kepaoa knew exactly what he was doing, he's definitely not running towards the ball. The ball lands midway between the 20 and 30, on the tram tracks. The angle Kepaoa is running takes him diagonally past that.

There are other questions about whether the challenge was actually legal, and whether that sort of action actually warrants a game losing penalty, but I thought the call itself was correct.

*hides behind the couch*

Papadontbleach wrote:I had a cracking week this week. Would have been better if I hadn’t captained DCE but still happy with my 1069. Made it into the top 500 for the first time ever.

I noticed you beat me in one of my many H2Hs, I thought that I did OK with 980 odd points, but you exceeded that by almost a century. Well done!

Anyway, like I said, been away all weekend and barely watched any footy, just logged in to find my highest score and highest rank of the year, so pretty stoked.

1035 score, taking me up to 1960 - hoping my first ever top 1,000 finish is still on.

Any other major fantasy-relevant injuries or talking points to catch up on? Doueihi was a tad disappointing, what happened there?

mrbrownstone wrote:Anyway, like I said, been away all weekend and barely watched any footy, just logged in to find my highest score and highest rank of the year, so pretty stoked.

1035 score, taking me up to 1960 - hoping my first ever top 1,000 finish is still on.

Any other major fantasy-relevant injuries or talking points to catch up on? Doueihi was a tad disappointing, what happened there?

Nice score and decent rank mate- beauty

mrbrownstone wrote:Been away on all weekend, just caught up on the Kayo mini after hearing about the ref controversy.

This clearly isn't the popular opinion, but......I thought they made the right call.

Kepaoa knew exactly what he was doing, he's definitely not running towards the ball. The ball lands midway between the 20 and 30, on the tram tracks. The angle Kepaoa is running takes him diagonally past that.

There are other questions about whether the challenge was actually legal, and whether that sort of action actually warrants a game losing penalty, but I thought the call itself was correct.

*hides behind the couch*

Just went and watched the replay a number of times from the high shot and it’s Feldt who changes his line late to intentionally shoulder Kepaoa. He was 100% trying to make contact to get a penalty.

Well I had a big week scoring 1030 which brought my rank in from 540 to 401 so I’m stoked with that!

mrbrownstone wrote:Been away on all weekend, just caught up on the Kayo mini after hearing about the ref controversy.

This clearly isn't the popular opinion, but......I thought they made the right call.

Kepaoa knew exactly what he was doing, he's definitely not running towards the ball. The ball lands midway between the 20 and 30, on the tram tracks. The angle Kepaoa is running takes him diagonally past that.

There are other questions about whether the challenge was actually legal, and whether that sort of action actually warrants a game losing penalty, but I thought the call itself was correct.

*hides behind the couch*

Every week you post "didn't watch the games, what happened to players x, y and z?" and it shows.

I'm gonna join you in not watching any games, but I won't be posting about it anymore. Next season will be an even bigger joke with the Redfern, Randwick or whatever the fuck Dolphins. The NRL has gone downhill under this 80s sleazeball, greed is good, Vlandys clown and I won't support it any longer while he's involved.

I'll probably pop in to see how the fanatics are doing, been a good place to take the mind off things over the years, some good people here.

All the best til then lads.

WT Winfield wrote:

Every week you post "didn't watch the games, what happened to players x, y and z?" and it shows.

I'm gonna join you in not watching any games, but I won't be posting about it anymore. Next season will be an even bigger joke with the Redfern, Randwick or whatever the fuck Dolphins. The NRL has gone downhill under this 80s sleazeball, greed is good, Vlandys clown and I won't support it any longer while he's involved.

I'll probably pop in to see how the fanatics are doing, been a good place to take the mind off things over the years, some good people here.

All the best til then lads.

Sorry to hear mate. Goes without saying, but you will be missed.

Was out last night, so missed the action.
Sounds like another refs shocker at the Cows v. Tigers game.
The Bludgers cracked the golden 1k for the first time this year (1020) and finally broke into the top 1000 (864) for the first time.
So, overall, I'm a pretty happy Bludger.

966 for me with Ponga in the 17. Slowly creeping my way up the rankings but my "great depth" has fallen to pieces in a single week (Ponga probably gone for the year, Walsh stuck on the bench). Looks like Penisini will be back in the 17 until I take the risk on an upgrade

Krump wrote:
Just enjoy being on the right end of it for once mate. Can’t think of a team more robbed in the big moments than the Cows

Sharks fans send there errrr.. thoughts out

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:

Actually did this with the last one which went down like a lead balloon

Watching the Bulldogs is risky

It’s going to be another tough week deciding on trades. Could play it slow and steady or could go all gung-ho

Can’t believe I’m actually considering Mbye as a cashout to afford Cook and Murray (why not both). Someone slap me

Ramsey out 2 weeks and Suli out until finals means Mbye should start, gives me CTR “cover”

Interesting to see all the jaded and being turned off the game comments when over here in NZ it's Rugby union that's happening with and all the fans are actually turning to the NRL instead.
Been a league fan for a number of years and also a union fan too, but now all my die hard union mates think they are NRL experts after watching the last couple of seasons, makes me laugh some times.
Definitely think there's some problems with the way the NRL is run and some of the new rules, but no way it's anywhere near in the hole rugby union is these days

Ponga replacements shortlist.

Points chasing:
Laurie
Suaalii 

Others:
Fifita
Savage
Hoy
Sloan

May the fantasy gods have mercy

Shit didn’t realise Laurie updated to 98!!

Scrub him from the list, too expensive now, Suaalii will probably be out of range too

mrbrownstone wrote:
This clearly isn't the popular opinion, but......I thought they made the right call.

As a referee in my weekend comp - the refs association has said in the past they will always back us in complaints from teams as long as we are correct at law (ie get the rules right). We have the advantage of our game sot being filmed from multiple camera angles, and we don't have any media personalities critiquing us every week.
But as an example the Cowboys Manly final from a few years ago where Foran scored off a knock on wasn't a mistake at law - if they decide that Foran knocked back then allowing the try was the correct decision. The mistake was in not spotting the knock on - but at least they got the rules right. An example of a mistake at law would be a Tigers/Souths game from 2004 that went to golden point, but they forgot to have halftime in golden point and just kept playing after 5 minutes until someone scored. Obviously the rules say you have to have a half time so at that time the refs failed at law.

Ans in yesterday's game, the referees failed at law. You can't challenge a non-call from a ref. And you can only challenge at a stoppage. Referee hadn't blown full time so it failed at both counts.
The NRL likes changing its rules multiple times a season, so they'll probably retroactively make it a valid challenge. But its a terrible precedent - if they did allow that then we'll see challenges on almost every kick chase so I suspect it will be a one-off.

It also highlights why I hate NRL commentary. Many on Fox/9 may be talking about it being a terrible call, but they say that 3 or 4 times a game, so why would anybody care what they say.