Live Game thread *spoilers

[851]

All fairness to Brooks, he's forced a couple of dropouts and if would have landed Thompson if the post wasn't there.

Benji is struggling. His long kicking is decent still but.

Brooks hasn't been bad and looks like one of our more likely to do some damage.

Brooks would be a good ISP half, not a good NRL half

Just finished watching the game and must have watched a different one..

This is the most bizarre comment in this thread…it has to be personal...

You can think what you like, he passed behind players, run around in circles on the 5th tackle, he is not a great half on what he has shown

 

[newtiger]

All fairness to Brooks, he's forced a couple of dropouts and if would have landed Thompson if the post wasn't there.

Benji is struggling. His long kicking is decent still but.

Brooks hasn't been bad and looks like one of our more likely to do some damage.

Brooks would be a good ISP half, not a good NRL half

Just finished watching the game and must have watched a different one..

This is the most bizarre comment in this thread…it has to be personal...

I must have watched the same game as you Geo, I thought Luke had a really good game.
851 just hates him.

 

[Russell]

Brooks hasn't been bad and looks like one of our more likely to do some damage.

Brooks would be a good ISP half, not a good NRL half

Just finished watching the game and must have watched a different one..

This is the most bizarre comment in this thread…it has to be personal...

I must have watched the same game as you Geo, I thought Luke had a really good game.
851 just hates him.

Oh! he does - almost as much as JT and that is saying something.

 

[AL The Tiger]

After a gruelling 87 mins, going down in golden point due to a dubious call, we get the same amount of competition points as the Eels after getting flogged 54-0…

Really NRL?

 

[newtiger]

After a gruelling 87 mins, going down in golden point due to a dubious call, we get the same amount of competition points as the Eels after getting flogged 54-0…

Really NRL?

Really good observation, but surely now Bernie Sutton admitted the Klein stuffed up the NRL will split the points 1 each.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Decades ago I loved the complication of one point draws - it made the countdown to the finals more interesting. I won't mention how a different capt may have handled it

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Mate that is a try every week.

How can you even prove "downward pressure". It's a bs rule… all you need to see is contact with the ball.

He grazed the side of the ball with his finger, he didn't change it's momentum even a fraction of a percent in a downwards direction, he propelled it forward or did nothing to it at all.

I'm not gonna act like a Storm supporter and cry about every decision that goes against us.

Watched it again. There is a frame showing his fingers touching the top of the ball when it was on the ground.

Like Gus said "what is downward pressure"… it's something which shouldn't even be in the rulebook. Either there is contact with the ball in a downward motion or it's an obvious knock on.

The ball was propelled forward - knock on every day of the week.

Russell I was thrilled for WT that it was not a try but when trying to thinking logically, I know it is dangerous, the fingers could probably have touched the ball on upper edge of round corner protruding towards the player, that is about 10 min to midday posi on a clock. Once below the 9pm towards the 6pm slot the ball would have been too far away. So if touched the ball at all it had to be above the 9pm slot and therefore exerting downward pressure and also forward due to roundness of ball - but still a try.

Even if was only grazed a fraction and we cannot see the downward pressure scientifically it could be measured and does exist. Bum fluff maybe but that is all that is necessary.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Brooks played excellently over all - main blunder when at dummy half and he passed to a ghost, even the commentators could not believe it at first grade.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

It was always bound to happen that the usual suspects would cop it after the first loss. Brooks kept us in the game. How he gets hung out to dry beats me.

 

[jirskyr]

**But you can have 1 point each after extra time if there is no clear winner
Is that correct
So how is this any different or fairer for that matter**
It is about trying to get the fairest and correct outcome for both teams
A refs wrong decision should not advantage or disadvantage any team
Especially in extra time when both teams have put in for 80 minutes of pure effart
One person in the middle deciding if we take away a 2 points or zero points
If a player fronts the **duediscery** over a possible illegal tackle ruled on by a refferee on the field then
Why can't that same **duediscery** also look at an outcome based on a refferies decision on the field in the same game
If it's good for the goose it's good for the gander
Tigers lost two because of a bad call
We may still have won or lost but that decision finalized the result

This is the most creative way of spelling judiciary I've ever seen :roll

That is one final result…a draw

You want two results from one game...a draw and a win, crazy

Got to agree with ink here - it creates a situation where there are more competition points on offer in the Golden Point game than in a regular game, meaning it is unfair to the teams that don't go into GP.

You would have to increase the total comp points up for grabs in regular matches to do what you are suggesting. Even then, I think @Harvey mentioned it…what happens when it's a draw after GP?

Potentially, you could have:

Regular win = 4 points
GP win = 3 points
GP draw = 2 points
GP loss = 1 point

I agree, it more or less works so long as every game has the same total points. Phil Gould has previously made an argument for getting more or less points in a game depending on the margin, e.g. in your scenario if you lose by 6 or less you get 1 and the winner gets 3.