Quote: HyperbolicRhino "Can they not appoint one person with the sole job of video reffing every game? I'm not aware of an occasion where two games using video refs in England were being played at the same time. At least that way there would (or perhaps should would be more appropriate....) be a lot more consistency. With a different person being video ref every week we're bound to get inconsistency down to one person interpreting something differently to the next person.'"
When they were looking at that decision I actually joked that it wouldn't suprise me if they tried to find a reason to give the try, I didn't really think for one minute that he would actually allow it.
I just dont understand how there can be so many contentious decisions. Take the Mcguire try, some so they believe it to be a clear try, some dont, but surely with the incorporation of 'benefit of the doubt', these 50/50 decisions should be going to the attacking team. But I don't want to get hung up on that one try, because this isn't about a Leeds try being disallowed, it's more the fact that some of the decisions that are given are absolutely baffling.
With regards to the NRL, I think it looks slower, however if you count the seconds between contact and the ball being played, it's usually around 4 or 5 seconds. Count superleague and you are lucky if it is less than 8 seconds. The muppets on sky said the other week that ours was actually faster, and that may be the case from hitting the floor to the ball being played (I've not counted them), but certainly not from the initial contact. The main difference between superleague and the NRL is the line speed in defence. As soon as the ball is played, the defence are in the attackers face, this makes the play the ball look slower as the attack dont often get much room to move. This may be why we are struggling to catch the Aussies, they dont particularly play any awesome moves, they just batter teams with consistant, error free rugby, playing for position before finding a weakness. Watch the NRL games and have a look at the usual completion rates, I have seen numerous that have got to 25 mins without either team making a mistake, and likewise without making a break, they just play fairly boring, but hard and fast rugby until one team wilts under the pressure.
That's my two penneth anyway!
