Who is the best referee in the NRL ??

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happy_tiger

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Just wondering who the majority think is the best referee in the NRL

For me its a choice between the Badge and Klein
 
hahaha…you're on fire with the dumb polls this week...

You left off...None of the above option...
 
The current referees are nowhere as controversial as Darcy Lawler was.

Extract from The Daily Telegraph
May 11, 2013 12:00AM

The most controversial chapter of his career relates to the 1963 grand final between St George and Western Suburbs, which is equally embraced and admonished, depending on who you speak to. History best remembers it for the slop and mud and the image photographer John O'Gready captured of Dragons captain Norm Provan and Magpies counterpart Arthur Summons embracing each other at fulltime. Wests players remember the game slightly differently, strongly believing that Lawler, the referee that miserable September afternoon, had backed St George.

They believed this because their prop, Jack Gibson, had turned to hooker Noel Kelly as they pulled on their boots in the dressing room and drawled: "We can't win. …....... Lawler has backed them".

The penalty count against Wests was pretty red-hot. However, of all the incidents that Wests players have howled about for the past 50 years, the try to Dragons winger Johnny King, when he appeared to be tackled but allowed to rise and run again and score the match-winning try, is recalled the most.
 
None of them deserve any credit at all.
The standard of referees in the NRL is embarrassingly low.
 
The question should be which ref has a tiny idea of what they are doing, compared to others who have no idea what they are doing? They're deadset pelicans our refs. Couldn't referee a snail race.

We should sign that Super League ref who was in the World Cup as the one and only ref in the game. He was great. Name escapes me.

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@Newtown said:
The current referees are nowhere as controversial as Darcy Lawler was.

Extract from The Daily Telegraph
May 11, 2013 12:00AM

The most controversial chapter of his career relates to the 1963 grand final between St George and Western Suburbs, which is equally embraced and admonished, depending on who you speak to. History best remembers it for the slop and mud and the image photographer John O'Gready captured of Dragons captain Norm Provan and Magpies counterpart Arthur Summons embracing each other at fulltime. Wests players remember the game slightly differently, strongly believing that Lawler, the referee that miserable September afternoon, had backed St George.

They believed this because their prop, Jack Gibson, had turned to hooker Noel Kelly as they pulled on their boots in the dressing room and drawled: "We can't win. …....... Lawler has backed them".

The penalty count against Wests was pretty red-hot. However, of all the incidents that Wests players have howled about for the past 50 years, the try to Dragons winger Johnny King, when he appeared to be tackled but allowed to rise and run again and score the match-winning try, is recalled the most.
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COME ON YOU GUYS

You need to get over it - more than 50 years ago and it wasn't even the Wests Tigers.

Isn't that who we support here or are we going back into the dark ages.

They won - you lost and that is it. Darcy Lawler isn't in this poll or Col Pearce.
 
@Russell said:
@Newtown said:
The current referees are nowhere as controversial as Darcy Lawler was.

Extract from The Daily Telegraph
May 11, 2013 12:00AM

The most controversial chapter of his career relates to the 1963 grand final between St George and Western Suburbs, which is equally embraced and admonished, depending on who you speak to. History best remembers it for the slop and mud and the image photographer John O'Gready captured of Dragons captain Norm Provan and Magpies counterpart Arthur Summons embracing each other at fulltime. Wests players remember the game slightly differently, strongly believing that Lawler, the referee that miserable September afternoon, had backed St George.

They believed this because their prop, Jack Gibson, had turned to hooker Noel Kelly as they pulled on their boots in the dressing room and drawled: "We can't win. …....... Lawler has backed them".

The penalty count against Wests was pretty red-hot. However, of all the incidents that Wests players have howled about for the past 50 years, the try to Dragons winger Johnny King, when he appeared to be tackled but allowed to rise and run again and score the match-winning try, is recalled the most.

COME ON YOU GUYS

You need to get over it - more than 50 years ago and it wasn't even the Wests Tigers.

Isn't that who we support here or are we going back into the dark ages.

They won - you lost and that is it. Darcy Lawler isn't in this poll or Col Pearce.
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Lighten up Russell, we're just having a bit of fun.
 
I changed my mind…is ir Devcich or Shortall who got to the vid ref with such elegance ..We have a T..R..Y.
 
@Russell said:
@Newtown said:
The current referees are nowhere as controversial as Darcy Lawler was.

Extract from The Daily Telegraph
May 11, 2013 12:00AM

The most controversial chapter of his career relates to the 1963 grand final between St George and Western Suburbs, which is equally embraced and admonished, depending on who you speak to. History best remembers it for the slop and mud and the image photographer John O'Gready captured of Dragons captain Norm Provan and Magpies counterpart Arthur Summons embracing each other at fulltime. Wests players remember the game slightly differently, strongly believing that Lawler, the referee that miserable September afternoon, had backed St George.

They believed this because their prop, Jack Gibson, had turned to hooker Noel Kelly as they pulled on their boots in the dressing room and drawled: "We can't win. …....... Lawler has backed them".

The penalty count against Wests was pretty red-hot. However, of all the incidents that Wests players have howled about for the past 50 years, the try to Dragons winger Johnny King, when he appeared to be tackled but allowed to rise and run again and score the match-winning try, is recalled the most.

COME ON YOU GUYS

You need to get over it - more than 50 years ago and it wasn't even the Wests Tigers.

Isn't that who we support here or are we going back into the dark ages.

They won - you lost and that is it. Darcy Lawler isn't in this poll or Col Pearce.
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Russell, you appear to have misinterpreted my post. Its point is that 50 or so years ago refereeing was in a much worse state than it is today. Looking at history allows us to look back at the mistakes which occurred and find methods to overcome these mistakes. We now have video referees which were not in place 50 years ago. If they were in place the controversial try decision referred to in the post would not have been awarded. It is inconsequential which teams were playing in the 1963 grand final. In fact I was following Newtown at the time.
 
@Newtown said:
@Russell said:
@Newtown said:
The current referees are nowhere as controversial as Darcy Lawler was.

Extract from The Daily Telegraph
May 11, 2013 12:00AM

The most controversial chapter of his career relates to the 1963 grand final between St George and Western Suburbs, which is equally embraced and admonished, depending on who you speak to. History best remembers it for the slop and mud and the image photographer John O'Gready captured of Dragons captain Norm Provan and Magpies counterpart Arthur Summons embracing each other at fulltime. Wests players remember the game slightly differently, strongly believing that Lawler, the referee that miserable September afternoon, had backed St George.

They believed this because their prop, Jack Gibson, had turned to hooker Noel Kelly as they pulled on their boots in the dressing room and drawled: "We can't win. …....... Lawler has backed them".

The penalty count against Wests was pretty red-hot. However, of all the incidents that Wests players have howled about for the past 50 years, the try to Dragons winger Johnny King, when he appeared to be tackled but allowed to rise and run again and score the match-winning try, is recalled the most.

COME ON YOU GUYS

You need to get over it - more than 50 years ago and it wasn't even the Wests Tigers.

Isn't that who we support here or are we going back into the dark ages.

They won - you lost and that is it. Darcy Lawler isn't in this poll or Col Pearce.

Russell, you appear to have misinterpreted my post. Its point is that 50 or so years ago refereeing was in a much worse state than it is today. Looking at history allows us to look back at the mistakes which occurred and find methods to overcome these mistakes. We now have video referees which were not in place 50 years ago. If they were in place the controversial try decision referred to in the post would not have been awarded. It is inconsequential which teams were playing in the 1963 grand final. In fact I was following Newtown at the time.
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I don't know Newtown

Apart from Darcy the game was far more simpler and there weren't nearly as many grey areas as in todays game

The rules can change weekly in this day and age and the refs seem to change their minds on what is good and bad from game to game
 
Happy, you make a good point there. The game in those days was much simpler but in many ways more enjoyable. Players were so much more loyal to their club and except for a few cases the big money factor had not yet infiltrated the game.
 
@Newtown said:
Happy, you make a good point there. The game in those days was much simpler but in many ways more enjoyable. Players were so much more loyal to their club and except for a few cases the big money factor had not yet infiltrated the game.
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the game is the same (except for the scrum)- the rules are just not that simpler

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