Officiating 2025

[incontrol]

Ask yourself if Mitchell Moses whilst playing for Parra or Nathan Clearly playing for Penrith made the exact same tackle as Laui would they have been penalised? No, They would be celebrated for such a wonderful tackle and sensational kick pressure with no penalty. When a Tiger does it, He’ll receive the harshest punishment the NRL can dish out.

The Sorenson tackle is the same situation. If the exact same tackle on Bula was made by the another team in the exact same situation by a player wearing a Tigers shirt that tackle would have been a penalty try with the Tigers player in the bin with a 5 match suspension.

The NRL has favourites and the Tigers are not one of them.

 

[colinbh]

Mate he hit him from the side and almost flipped him. That’s dangerous under their current interpretations.

What rubbish
You have no idea. Not late or dangerous.

 

[zowieben]

Similar rubbish penalty as in the game against the Warriors, Latu made a tackle below the legs, the guy flipped up and landed on his back. We were smashing them on their line, I think it was going to be 5th tackle and they were 20 metres out. Got a penalty, they marched up field and i think they scored from that set of 6. Our 8 point lead with 10 minutes left evaporated and then they got that ridiculous penalty when they ran into Seyfarth who stood his ground. lost that game due to 2 woeful decisions. We cop more bad decisions than any other team.

 

[Kelce68]

Mate he hit him from the side and almost flipped him. That’s dangerous under their current interpretations.

a) it's not illegal to hit somebody from the side when in possession of the ball.

b) 'almost flipping him' is vague. He didn't go past the horizontal and landed safely. It, by definition wasn't a dangerous or careless action as he did not end up in a dangerous position.

A woeful call and one that was explained terribly by Annesley.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

a) it's not illegal to hit somebody from the side when in possession of the ball.

b) 'almost flipping him' is vague. He didn't go past the horizontal and landed safely. It, by definition wasn't a dangerous or careless action as he did not end up in a dangerous position.

A woeful call and one that was explained terribly by Annesley.

Woeful alright.

I'd love to see the other incident and whether Liam Martin was well in front of the kicker - Rob bechara was pretty adement he was. Does anyone have a clip? This would definitely warrant a please explain from the NRL as the bunker adjudicated on it.

 

[Flippedy]

My issue is with their interpretation. It’s not in the rule book and it’s wrong - you make things up on the fly and you get unintentional consequences. He was not flipped past horizontal.

And if they want to make up rules on the fly, at least be consistent with them. Teddy got absolutely minced as he kicked the ball recently, no penalty.

Consistency - it’s all we ask isn’t it? If you’re gonna ping one player for your interpretation of a dangerous tackle then do the same for others.

However, we all know there will be numerous tackles similar to Luai’s that won’t be penalised before the season is out. It happens time and time again every year without explanation.

The ref, Annusley and about 3 people on here are the only ones who believe that tackle should’ve been penalised. Everyone else, including a host of former players, other team’s supporters and even most of the Penrith supporters thought it was just a good tackle. Go figure.

 

[Flippedy]

Ask yourself if Mitchell Moses whilst playing for Parra or Nathan Clearly playing for Penrith made the exact same tackle as Laui would they have been penalised? No, They would be celebrated for such a wonderful tackle and sensational kick pressure with no penalty. When a Tiger does it, He’ll receive the harshest punishment the NRL can dish out.

The Sorenson tackle is the same situation. If the exact same tackle on Bula was made by the another team in the exact same situation by a player wearing a Tigers shirt that tackle would have been a penalty try with the Tigers player in the bin with a 5 match suspension.

The NRL has favourites and the Tigers are not one of them.

Hard to disagree when it keeps on happening.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Ask yourself if Mitchell Moses whilst playing for Parra or Nathan Clearly playing for Penrith made the exact same tackle as Laui would they have been penalised? No, They would be celebrated for such a wonderful tackle and sensational kick pressure with no penalty. When a Tiger does it, He’ll receive the harshest punishment the NRL can dish out.

The Sorenson tackle is the same situation. If the exact same tackle on Bula was made by the another team in the exact same situation by a player wearing a Tigers shirt that tackle would have been a penalty try with the Tigers player in the bin with a 5 match suspension.

The NRL has favourites and the Tigers are not one of them.

100% spot on….we never get the rub of the green from the refs…it’s almost like they have been given an edict to never give us a break…no 50/50 calls go our way

 

[TIGERS]

Mate he hit him from the side and almost flipped him. That’s dangerous under their current interpretations.

'Almost' is the key word here. They penalised the risk, not the tackle. Which is stupid.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

So I guess we can scrap the 'arms wrapping around the kicker?'

Seriously they keep changing things no wonder people players coaches commentators are conused...especially when its left to "interpretation" ...which rhis grey area imo is an easy out for them

I actually think the fact Luai let him go was the issue as that created the effect/perception of danger, if Luai kept his arms around him which softened the perception of danger then it would’ve been alot less dramatic looking and it would’ve been play on.

Carrigan did a tackle like it but held the player post so he didn’t fall side on to the ground and it was play on.

The dangerous component is all about perception, the refs have rapid seconds to process and make the decision related to a player being in danger.

 

[Needaname]

'Almost' is the key word here. They penalised the risk, not the tackle. Which is stupid.

In game I can’t blame the ref for what he witnessed in that moment. Having Annsely go on and try and tell all and sundry it was an illegal tackle is the issue. We’ll see if going forwards if there is anything similar punished.
I have to admit watching the game on TV I had an oh oh moment as soon as I saw the kicker on the ground; I expected it to be penalised but to this point I’ve seen a few others in past games where I was expecting the same to occur and yet it didn’t.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

Authoritarianism

 

[Flippedy]

Anyone hear anything yet about Benji being either warned or fined because of his comments?

 

[hodgo]

Again the issue for me is is it or isn't it penalty no body can actually say this is the issue to much grey area

 

[Merlot]

100% spot on….we never get the rub of the green from the refs…it’s almost like they have been given an edict to never give us a break…no 50/50 calls go our way

when we jell as a team and start winning, they will

 

[BAGNF05]

Again the issue for me is is it or isn't it penalty no body can actually say this is the issue to much grey area

Exactly. They need to define when a runner becomes a kicker, similar to the NFL when a passer becomes a runner. Then there will still be shades of grey but at least there is a clear delineation. Is it when the ball hits the foot? When he props on one leg and is off-balance? Just make it clear. Luai doesn’t make that tackle if it’s clear.

 

[happy_tiger]

My issue is when they play back the situation it is not played back at normal speed
Slowing it down always makes it look worse and doesn't put the play to see how little time you have to pull out

 

[Properossi]

a) it's not illegal to hit somebody from the side when in possession of the ball.

b) 'almost flipping him' is vague. He didn't go past the horizontal and landed safely. It, by definition wasn't a dangerous or careless action as he did not end up in a dangerous position.

A woeful call and one that was explained terribly by Annesley.

Time for Annesley to go and find relevance in life somewhere else doing himself no favours associated with the NRL take Gus with you

 

[jadtiger]

Time for Annesley to go and find relevance in life somewhere else doing himself no favours associated with the NRL take Gus with you

Anusley failed as a ref went into politics and was equally as useless at that so he came back to be the Big Bwana of the referees running the show and sucks at that as he only defends their mistakes.A completely useless and total failure sums his career up perfectly.

 

[BAGNF05]

Anusley failed as a ref went into politics and was equally as useless at that so he came back to be the Big Bwana of the referees running the show and sucks at that as he only defends their mistakes.A completely useless and total failure sums his career up perfectly.

He has no feel for the game. I suspect he played chess for school sport.