If Childs is the ref? About a week.

All of you who complain incessantly about refereeing decisions must be elated. You would now be able to scream cheat at the video ref for his decision under the captain's challenge.

This.

Jeffries shouldn't have been penalised, but once he was the sin bin was the right decision.

Which would we be appealing? The original decision or the sin binning?

A few years ago it would have been inconceivable to challenge an umpire in a cricket match - yet now they have a limited number of referals for each team.

With modern technology I would think it would be possible monitor 10m at play of the ball - imagine not having to shout "Get em on side"

This thread follows on from Robbie's article in the Times about the game needing to show some more innovation to get media attention.

The game will become like WWF where the content is secondary to the gimmicks.

I hate the way them pandas steal the attention with their on/off breeding and that.

Wouldnt it be simpler to use it the same as the NFL where each team gets say 3 challenges to use throughout the game and if the challenge is correct then they get that challenge back but if the challenge fails the team who made it loses an interchange this would make teams only use they if they believe it is necessary otherwise it would harm their team.

I really don't see the point in this for SL. The NRL has a video ref at every game, we do not. We already have a situation where the referring is different in 2 matches of every round. I wouldn't even consider it until we have a video ref covering all matches.

Am i just imagining it or did SL use to have a VR at every game? But not a big screen

problem would be lack of camera angles at the non sky matches. Most clubs video all their games but only with a single camera. so video refs at non sky matches dont have the multiple angles available that sky provide. to be fair it needs to be all matches non-video ref or all matches video ref using same quality of coverage. Unlikely the latters ever going to happen due to finances.

The ref would need to know who the captain was first. Thaler thought it was Gale.