Farmduck

For some weird reason everybody in the stadium started chain-smoking at HT

Badger sent Klemmer to the bin for dissent - which should happen a lot more, IMO - and she sent Seyfarth for a head butt in a kerfuffle, standard NRL procedure.

I thought she did a good job. I thought she spent appropriate amounts of time outlining decisions to players. I even recall thinking what a good job she was doing during the run of play.

I'm sure it's the fault of Kayo Sports. It's just a streaming version of the Fox RL coverage, ads and all, but for some reason, they always add about 2 minutes at the end of HT with a screen that says something like, "Don't go anywhere we'll be right back." God only knows why they do it. Are they trying to force people back to Foxtel subscritions? Why, when they are selling you only a quarter of that product on Kayo for half the price?

WTF with Kaufusi's hari? Is that an actual hair style or just an odd variation on balding?

FT: Melbourne 22 Gold Coast 20

78min: Titans challenge a knock on call but bunker decides it was a strip and penalty against the Coast

77min: Phil Sami goes close in the corner but foot on sideline

Titans win a Challenge in the 73rd minute but it's a technical win. They were right but they didn't get the ball back. So they knocked on but they keep their challenge.

68min: Meaney kicks a penalty goal after hitting the post with an almost identical kick 3 minutes earlier Storm 22 - 20

58min: Brimstone plants the ball behind the sticks but Beau Furball took Munster out of the line in the lead-up. Another one where the defender probably wouldn't have stopped the try but he hit the deck to make sure the officials saw it and the decision is consistent with current NRL decisions.

54min: Kelly kick the obstruction penalty 20 - 20

48min: Brimson try + Kelly goal Titans 18 - 20 Faalogo HIA'd during HT??? Melbourne doctor informed NRL officials at the end of HT that he was HIA and not coming back. This means his compulsory off-field time starts at that point. If they had decided earlier and informed the officials immediately, he could be back on the field by now, given that he has passed HIA and returned to the bench.

HT: Storm 20 Titans 12

1 minute before HT Papenhuyzen limps off with some kind of lower leg enhobblement.