Standing Ovation for a Ref...

[Maximus Decimus]

In the NRL at the Sharks-Storm game the ref has just sin binned Cameron Smith for backchat, the first of his career. 

Hilarious response from the Sharks fans! 

[Dave T]

Yup. Smith and Melbourne acting classless with his refusal to step off the pitch to stop play to get a substitution.

Clubs and players should be getting punished for blatantly taking the pee out of the authorities.

[Dave T]

Isnt this two top teams - 24 penalties so far. 

[Maximus Decimus]

12 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Isnt this two top teams - 24 penalties so far. 

Two huge penalty counts this morning. The difference between us and them though is you suspect they'll sort it out. Over here they would be more likely to double down and make out there isn't a problem. 

[Dave T]

I think there should be charges for both of those teams for failing to control players.

[Spidey]

I had to switch off. I’m gutted I missed this historical moment ??

[Sports Prophet]

11 hours ago, Dave T said:

I think there should be charges for both of those teams for failing to control players.

There is nothing to charge them against.

Are you suggesting penalty counts of 10+ should be a chargeable offence?

[Padge]

12 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

There is nothing to charge them against.

 

Incorrect, there are two catch all laws in the game, one is for players; ungentlemanly conduct, the second for anyone, including clubs; bringing the game into disrepute. 

[Sports Prophet]

4 hours ago, Padge said:

Incorrect, there are two catch all laws in the game, one is for players; ungentlemanly conduct, the second for anyone, including clubs; bringing the game into disrepute. 

I would love to be at the hearing if prosecutors tried to make either of those charges stick on a club having a high penalty count.

[Blotto]

17 hours ago, Maximus Decimus said:

In the NRL at the Sharks-Storm game the ref has just sin binned Cameron Smith for backchat, the first of his career. 

Hilarious response from the Sharks fans! 

Ceccin having a bout of PMT, being very sensitive to suggestions about his decision making!

[lucky 7]

18 hours ago, Dave T said:

Yup. Smith and Melbourne acting classless with his refusal to step off the pitch to stop play to get a substitution.

Clubs and players should be getting punished for blatantly taking the pee out of the authorities.

Storm and Smith have been getting away with lots over the years.

Even their first try in the NRL grand final last year should have been pulled up for obstruction

[Dave T]

7 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:

There is nothing to charge them against.

Are you suggesting penalty counts of 10+ should be a chargeable offence?

There were offences in the game that could easily see charges, particularly the Smith being a tool thing and the lst skirmish. 

The fact that the players just got to the point where they were ignoring the officials is an issue.

[Dave T]

1 hour ago, Blotto said:

Ceccin having a bout of PMT, being very sensitive to suggestions about his decision making!

No. The arrogance from Smith needed punishing. He had already marched him 10, but Smith feels his is untouchable and said more as he walked away. He then refused to leave the pitch.

But hey, in RL we reckon we are respectful to the ref. 

Are we balls, those players were worse than Premier League footballers yesterday.

[Sports Prophet]

31 minutes ago, Dave T said:

The fact that the players just got to the point where they were ignoring the officials is an issue.

Yep, that Smith incident staying on the field was pretty poor. There is an offence there for sure.

[wackojacko]

This was an immensely satisfying moment. Almost made up for losing to Saints.

[deluded pom?]

I’ve always like Cecchin since the WC semi final.

[Phil]

4 hours ago, Dave T said:

No. The arrogance from Smith needed punishing. He had already marched him 10, but Smith feels his is untouchable and said more as he walked away. He then refused to leave the pitch.

But hey, in RL we reckon we are respectful to the ref. 

Are we balls, those players were worse than Premier League footballers yesterday.

We had that respect but somewhere along the road we lost it, now players wave their arms in the air and act like petulant teenagers. It has to be stamped out, if that means a season of multi binnings and high penalty counts then so be it. 

[Blotto]

3 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:

Yep, that Smith incident staying on the field was pretty poor. There is an offence there for sure.

If you were watching he would have been off but before he could leave the field one of the Storm trainers told him to stay while they did an interchange, some players walk off quite slowly when given a yellow there is no time penalty on this and no offence, Smith did nothing wrong!

[Sports Prophet]

15 minutes ago, Blotto said:

If you were watching he would have been off but before he could leave the field one of the Storm trainers told him to stay while they did an interchange, some players walk off quite slowly when given a yellow there is no time penalty on this and no offence, Smith did nothing wrong!

A player must make his way from the field when ordered. He delayed leaving the pitch to allow his team to gain an advantage. That's one thing in itself. To do it after you have been sent to the sin bin is actually just taking the mick.

[wackojacko]

2 hours ago, Phil said:

We had that respect but somewhere along the road we lost it, now players wave their arms in the air and act like petulant teenagers. It has to be stamped out, if that means a season of multi binnings and high penalty counts then so be it. 

Clear directive at the beginning of the season and cards for anyone who ignores it. It would be cleaned up within the month (more or less).

[Just Browny]

2 hours ago, Phil said:

We had that respect but somewhere along the road we lost it, now players wave their arms in the air and act like petulant teenagers. It has to be stamped out, if that means a season of multi binnings and high penalty counts then so be it. 

People love saying stuff like this on forums, but as soon as you get a game like that the ref is accused of ruining the game. Gould, Vautin, Johns and co were all at it yesterday. Baz, Eddie and Tez would be exactly the same over here.

[Just Browny]

2 hours ago, Blotto said:

If you were watching he would have been off but before he could leave the field one of the Storm trainers told him to stay while they did an interchange, some players walk off quite slowly when given a yellow there is no time penalty on this and no offence, Smith did nothing wrong!

I was about to say something about how even Lounge Room Lizard (who would offer to go to jail for Smith if invited) hadn't tried to defend his actions that brazenly, and then I saw that he had liked your post.

[Phil]

6 minutes ago, Just Browny said:

People love saying stuff like this on forums, but as soon as you get a game like that the ref is accused of ruining the game. Gould, Vautin, Johns and co were all at it yesterday. Baz, Eddie and Tez would be exactly the same over here.

They don’t run the game, we need to get back to the point where refs had respect even yawnion is light years ahead of us in this. 

[JohnM]

On 30/03/2018 at 11:39 AM, Dave T said:

Yup. Smith and Melbourne acting classless with his refusal to step off the pitch to stop play to get a substitution.

Clubs and players should be getting punished for blatantly taking the pee out of the authorities.

Yes. Mind you, i think this was an isolated incident and not at all indicative of the attitude of Australian players in general, no matter what the sport. 

[deluded pom?]

What is about Aussies called Smith and bad sportsmanship?