Kenny Edwards vs. Referess/RFL

[Human Punk]

I don't think that our refs are, as a whole, worse than those in the NRL. There have been some terrible decisions in recent NRL matches, much to the amusement of the commentary team, and a whole lot more where they've been saved by the captain's challenge.

The number of errors we see in SL are about the same. You get the odd poor performance from one ref or another, but those things happen. No doubt better funding might help add more depth to the refereeing pool - that's the major area where improvement would be welcome.

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6 hours ago, Human Punk said:

I don't think that our refs are, as a whole, worse than those in the NRL. There have been some terrible decisions in recent NRL matches, much to the amusement of the commentary team, and a whole lot more where they've been saved by the captain's challenge.

The number of errors we see in SL are about the same. You get the odd poor performance from one ref or another, but those things happen. No doubt better funding might help add more depth to the refereeing pool - that's the major area where improvement would be welcome.

I think this is where the impact of ref's are different in SL compared to the NRL.

The captains challenge has allowed teams to challenge a decision of a referee, if they lose - it's gone, but if they win, they retain it.

IMO, it has lead to less blame being placed on officials, and some more on captains for choosing when to, or not to use their challenge. You often hear "oh, and they've already used their challenge, so they can't do anything about that" rather than constantly talking about the referee getting it wrong.

Referees are humans, and they will get things wrong during a match, it is expected - No one should expect them to be absolutely perfect.