Wayne Bennett Wants Replayed Grand Finals Brought Back

[Tim Sheens]

The idea of a Replay is ridiculous, but I dont like Golden Point deciding the Premiers.

Extra Time or Golden Try is a better result.

Those 4 tackles for the Cowboys last night was an embarrassment for our game.

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I thought the scrum prior to those four tackles was the biggest joke.

 

[tiger_one]

I thought the ref's missing the Darius Boyd knock on in the 2nd half was an even bigger joke!

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Unca Wayne's monumental ego took a fairly significant hit last night- Paul Green summed it up perfectly " its not worth talking about,we won the comp"…..he should of ended with " get that up ya Wayne". Bennett is on the rules committee isn't he? Surely the whiny sour flog can manipulate the rules to suit his wants and needs? You stuffed it up Wayne with the GF in your grasp, suck it up old son. I don't agree with golden point either but if he was holding the trophy aloft he wouldn't have given a toss about arguing the merits of golden point. He calls it a 'lottery'....well so is the judiciary and he won the lottery last Tues night....can't be greedy and expect to win 2 'lotteries' in the 1 week.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Golden point is a crap way to finish it, but raging about the rules after the fact just smacks of sour grapes.

Suck it up Bennett, your boys stopped playing football.

 

[Yossarian]

Golden point is a crap way to finish it, but raging about the rules after the fact just smacks of sour grapes.

Suck it up Bennett, your boys stopped playing football.

But he has been a vocal opponent of golden point since it came in. It's not like he's changed his mind post event.

 

[happy_tiger]

When you have 2 Qld sides having a replay lacks common sense

The only winners would be the NRL and the airlines (again )

20 minutes of extra time is a far better idea

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Golden point is a crap way to finish it, but raging about the rules after the fact just smacks of sour grapes.

Suck it up Bennett, your boys stopped playing football.

But he has been a vocal opponent of golden point since it came in. It's not like he's changed his mind post event.

That is true Yoss. But I dare say he wouldn't of been complaining too much had one of his blokes slotted through the winning dropgoal. Its always all about Unca Wayne when it comes to the thoughts of Unca Wayne…..always has been.

 

[everett]

Don't like the idea of a replay, don't like that a field goal wins a game in extra time.

Like the idea of draws during regularly season games and in the finals golden try.

It was always going to be the Cowboys year and JT deserved to lead this team to their first premiership.

I am a huge JT fan and glad he has now achieved everything he can in this great game called NRL.

You can write Cowboys off for 2016 glory. Cronulla might finally win a premiership in Gallen's last year. Have a decent squad but lack one or two props unless Gallen plays prop and Rhino at lock.

 

[Yossarian]

Golden point is a crap way to finish it, but raging about the rules after the fact just smacks of sour grapes.

Suck it up Bennett, your boys stopped playing football.

But he has been a vocal opponent of golden point since it came in. It's not like he's changed his mind post event.

That is true Yoss. But I dare say he wouldn't of been complaining too much had one of his blokes slotted through the winning dropgoal. Its always all about Unca Wayne when it comes to the thoughts of Unca Wayne…..always has been.

I don't agree with a lot things he says but his résumé probably gives him the right to give his opinion on the game. I've seen him complain about golden point when his team has won. He's also a guy who's been pretty supportive of the Cows.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Can't say I heard him being too congratulatory to the Cowboys on winning the premiership though, he was more intent on bagging golden point than giving NQ their due.

 

[sunshine_coast_tiger]

During the home and away series scrap golden point and go back to the draw, but the grand final the golden point is the only way to get a result, coming back the next week is just a massive let down

Bennetts negative tactics in the second half lost him the game that they had won for all money. When you loose a grand final its best leaving the talking to the winners

This, their is no good reason we should not have draws during regular season games. Sometimes a draw is a fair result.

For SOO and finals I would go to 10 minutes each way and then if needed Golden Point. At least 10 minutes each way gives teams the chance to play more normal rugby league rather than the field goal competition we have now in golden point.

 

[mightymagpie]

I also think we should do away with golden point in regular season. If they really must have it then maybe rejig the competition points to something like 3 for a win, 2 for win in golden point and 1 for loss after golden point.
For finals it should be 5 or 10 minutes each way extra time and then golden point. And, if and only if, it's still level after golden point, then there would be a replay

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[Abraham]

Agree with Bennett's sentiments about golden point 100%.
I think it should be scrapped for competition games, however have 10 mins each way extra time in finals/rep matches.

Like most people I was going for the Cowboys on Sunday, and while it was exciting, it was criminal for the match to end the way it did. Can only imagine how I would feel if the Tigers lost a GF to a golden point field goal.

As for those criticising Bennett for the timing of his comments, the thing about Wayne Bennett, is that Wayne Bennett is way smarter than you lot. He has brought up the issue which has been a long standing bug bear for him at the exact time and place where it will get most exposure, and as a result it's still on the back page of the papers today. He plays the media like a fiddle old Wayne, and this is another example of that.

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[Fade_To_Black]

As for those criticising Bennett for the timing of his comments, the thing about Wayne Bennett, is that Wayne Bennett is way smarter than you lot. He has brought up the issue which has been a long standing bug bear for him at the exact time and place where it will get most exposure, and as a result it's still on the back page of the papers today. He plays the media like a fiddle old Wayne, and this is another example of that.

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As you can see the majority of people agree that golden point should be scrapped, especially for a grand final. Unca Wayne is not a lone genius for disputing golden point. Yes he may be smarter than all of us but he wasn't smart enough to guide his team to a premiership when it was all but a foregone conclusion with time winding down on Sunday evening- that fact would of had his ego hurting. What would have happened if Brisbane had dropped the kickoff like that with 10 seconds to go in regulation time? It still would of been a heartbreaking way to lose but because it happened in golden point people are having a meltdown over it. GF's should be played out to golden try regardless of how much extra time has to be played- its not as if either team has a game to worry about the week after.

 

[jirskyr]

When you have 2 Qld sides having a replay lacks common sense

The only winners would be the NRL and the airlines (again )

20 minutes of extra time is a far better idea

This seems to be to be the obvious way to do it.

Teams would not go for the 1 point so quickly, and mistakes would not necessarily be match-ending. Both teams would get a proper chance with the ball, and fatigue would make it very compelling to watch.

Perhaps for regular-season draws you could play out 10 mins extra time and not have a golden point. 20 mins might be too much for those games where a draw would ultimately be ok.

I for one think it's time to change up the points and match-end rules for the whole season.

Extra time losses should be worth a point, as should bigger wins and narrow losses. Every result should count.

For example, if wins are 2 points, > 24 point win worth an extra point. <= 6 point loss should be worth 1 point to the loser. Games that end in draws at 80 mins should award both teams 1 point, with the extra-time winner taking another 1.

Some commentators say that if you can kick a FG to win at 79 mins, you should be able to do it in GP. Though I don't agree, because the GP clock stops and the regular clock does not, in a revised points system a win "at the death" generally yields 2-1 points, whether it's 79th minute or 89th.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

As for those criticising Bennett for the timing of his comments, the thing about Wayne Bennett, is that Wayne Bennett is way smarter than you lot. He has brought up the issue which has been a long standing bug bear for him at the exact time and place where it will get most exposure, and as a result it's still on the back page of the papers today. He plays the media like a fiddle old Wayne, and this is another example of that.

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As you can see the majority of people agree that golden point should be scrapped, especially for a grand final. Unca Wayne is not a lone genius for disputing golden point. Yes he may be smarter than all of us but he wasn't smart enough to guide his team to a premiership when it was all but a foregone conclusion with time winding down on Sunday evening- that fact would of had his ego hurting. What would have happened if Brisbane had dropped the kickoff like that with 10 seconds to go in regulation time? It still would of been a heartbreaking way to lose but because it happened in golden point people are having a meltdown over it. GF's should be played out to golden try regardless of how much extra time has to be played- its not as if either team has a game to worry about the week after.

Unca Wayne's ego won't be hurting too badly. He knows he has a side that will win it within the next 2 yrs.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Golden point is a crap way to finish it, but raging about the rules after the fact just smacks of sour grapes.

Suck it up Bennett, your boys stopped playing football.

But he has been a vocal opponent of golden point since it came in. It's not like he's changed his mind post event.

That is true Yoss. But I dare say he wouldn't of been complaining too much had one of his blokes slotted through the winning dropgoal. Its always all about Unca Wayne when it comes to the thoughts of Unca Wayne…..always has been.

I don't agree with a lot things he says but his résumé probably gives him the right to give his opinion on the game. I've seen him complain about golden point when his team has won. He's also a guy who's been pretty supportive of the Cows.

I know he doesn't like it Yoss. They're the rules whether he likes it or not. I highly doubt he'd have said anything if the Broncos slotted the goal. If the Broncos played the game for 80 mins instead of 79 mins & 50 seconds, it wouldn't have even went to golden point.

 

[underdog]

Fair enough on Bennett's opinion on Golden point, as others have said he's been vocally against it since day one, however perhaps a golden try situation should be considered from here on in - with penalties not allowing for goal kicks, and no field goals.

I know what most of you are thinking - if that's the case, then what's to stop everyone being offside? The sin bin.

If a team is continually giving away penalties to disrupt the game on their goal-line, put players in the bin, as they won't be returning.

During the season 5 minutes either way should suffice - but the key difference should be 2 points to the winner, 1 point to the loser.

Finals games should be five minutes either way, then continuation until a result.

I do however feel that Bennett not giving a single shred of praise to the North Queensland Cowboys for their performance on the day is a bit of poor form.

 

[Yossarian]

Watching a team give away enough penalties to prompt enough players to be sin binned to open up the game is possibly not a great improvement I'd suggest.

 

[Goose]

Qantas were calling for a replay, actually they were lobbying for an American style best of 7 series.