The Bunker

[jirskyr]

Here's a question: tonight's Broncs v Cows game, GP when Thurston is ruled to have bobbled the ball in crossing for what would have been the match winner.

The winger Eden dives back into the field to play at the ball, with legs still in touch. Now in simultaneous motion of him touching and JT swooping on the pill, you award possession to JT, fine. But because JT is deemed to have knocked it on in that motion, is there thus a previous infringement by the winger?

Or even does the winger simultaneously touching the ball whilst standing in touch void the whole play, resulting in a scrum to the Cowboys?

I think it is OK as long as you don't improve your position from being out of the field of play

A good example of what I mean was the SOO game back in 2014 when Morris comes from an off side position from the sidelines to tackle Inglis in Game 2

No I mean he's actually in touch with his leg when he touches the ball, just before or as JT dives on it.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

It's not perfect, but it's better then what we had. It speeds things up a bit more.

That's what Greenberg and his halfwit mates keep wanting us to believe Mama, but now it is getting to the point where it is just as slow- if not slower - than in previous seasons. One of the RL shows on tv highlighted a decision that was sent to the bunker from the Good Friday Dogs vs Souths clash that took 3 minutes and 50 seconds to eventually roll out a decision. $2 million for that rubbish is a massive waste of money.

 

[maxxy86]

I was a supporter but in recent rounds I'm thinking its not the best spent money. Anyway were going to the board and it's a …......nice try but still got flaws

 

[Harvey]

NRL 360 was comparing the Aubusson decision with A league technology where offsides can be confirmed in a second. If they are paying 2m, but don't have the technology to confirm whether a player is in front of the kicker, then the money has not been well spent

 

[WestsSupporter]

If they got it wrong this season, they would have got it wrong last season. Just they're wasting less time getting it wrong this year. What if have is better than what we had.

I've sympathised with the Cowboys in the past, though, the amount of rough decisions they get is starting to become hilarious. Thank god they won the premiership last year or half the referee team would be dead by now.

 

[mike]

I still think it is working. Better and faster decisions. The controversial ones they mostly get right, even when just about everyone else thinks the opposite. They are following the rule book much more consistently, much less individual refs interpretations. I like it.

 

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The bunker is only 1 cog in the whole shambolic mess that is the rulebook of rugby league and how it is enforced.
Sam Burgess last night fumbles the footy whilst playing it and Manly get penalised even though he is not supposed to put the ball on the ground to play it until after he has got to his feet- it was such a blatant illegal play the ball but he gets rewarded for it. The way the refs penalize the markers instead of the bloke playing the ball annoys the hell outta me.
And the big crackdown the NRL had during the preseason on actually playing the ball with your foot (or making a decent attempt to) has gone out the window pretty quickly-can't remember the last time a bloke got pinged for it since round 1.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

If they are getting less decisions wrong and it's happening quicker, it is automatically more efficient than the old system. Give it a season and let them review how many clangers they had compared to years gone by and the average decision time.

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

Bunker plus lesser interchanges and Shot clocks are really pushing the players to their limits

It will be real easy for fans to spot the lazy players from the hardworking ones

Bunker is not perfect but I like the fact the game goes on at a faster rate, none of this 55min halfs we sometimes got from fart arsing with video Refs

 

[Fade_To_Black]

The referee's are so pathetically incompetent in the NRL these days it is really beyond a joke. Hometown Henry got the Storm the victory today, the Knights got done over massively in the 2nd half. 4 or 5 penalties and/or incorrect decisions went against them,Nathan Brown would be justified in telling it how it is and costing his club $10 000.
Hope we get the same hometown favours this afternoon, heavily doubt we will though.

 

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…...And we didn't. Resume normal transmission. ####### joke.