Disgraceful and really petty comments. Especially his clear implication that it’s a "Brit thing"

Perhasps the RFL should be equally petty and come out with "We are not sure how it is done in Australia but in the UK we respect the officials, one match ban"?

Even worst for the fact that it was his team that was the guilty party. Bentham probably should have blown a few penalties to stamp his authority, but then if it had carried on we would have either had "No consistency from the refs" if he stopped blowing for penalties every 5 minutes, or "it’s another Ganson show, 7 penalties in 7 minutes!" I think he made the best decision personally.

sorry but that is how origin is played and if you dont like it stop saying there the best team/ players in the world. it great not to see a team with a nippy hooker run ten meters because it is impossible for any tackling players to get back in time. why he said its a brit thing no idea didnt see the interview was late here and i wanted to sleep, but hes talking bull its an nrl tatic and its made them have some great attacking players as its harder to break a solid defence line rather than a dogs back leg because some one has hit the floor faster than a rugby union player got back up and played the ball quickly. Also aus where laying around alot more than new zealand and thats why they lost also the fact bentham gave aus a penalty for a high shot and smith does the same thing to sika and nothing given. I think refs are scared of aussie teams and are idiolising there players to much you could see bentham having an nice chat to the aussie players every time there was a break in play.

I think you will find the NRL has a happy balance regarding the play the ball.
Its not touch football where tackles are almost voluntarily to get the next play (Scooting, FFS ) trying to catch markers /teams offside but its also nothing like today's game where the Ref let it be a slow play the ball.

The Ref decides the rhythm of the play the ball early in the game.
The players play to the whistle.

i watched the whole of the origin and it looked no different from last night apart from there is more intensity in the origin match.

Well if that's what the pinnacle of our game has become then I'm happy to settle for second best.

It's a load of bollox saying the players will adapt to how the ref lets then play. The best players in the world are there to play - not spoil play. It doesn't say much for their aspirations. RL was once a great sport to watch - it's going down the pan quicker than last nights curry if all that our best players want to do is wrestle on the ground. They could take a little responsibility and actually try to play a bit of rugby.

It was boring as fook.

The speed of that ruck was marginal, and I mean marginally slower than the weekly rounds of the NRL. If Sheens and Kearney want a quicker PTB, tell their respective players to get their ing hands off the ball in the ruck.

Poor comments from Sheens and if the RFL had any balls they would say something. I can't imagine them fining him though

I think Sheens should be banned from RL Fans Forum.

Sheens may have a point but he's certainly got no class. He's a typical Australian, having lived in Sydney and been labelled whinging Pom more times than I care to remember, it never ceases to amaze me how ironic that statement is, we may have invented whining but boy did they perfect it.

They do this every year, complain about the ref, stamp their feet until they get their own way.

Couldn't figure his comments out, was he saying he wanted the ref to penalise his own team for slowing the PTB down



If you don't like it, don't do it youreslves you whining Aussie tosspot.

But Chris returnofthechris the fact that you were built up to move to Oz and it did not suit you colours your judgement.

English people have been branded as whiners for decades nowadays there is a trend to brand Aussies as whiners at any chance there is to do so.
Maybe its the pommie influence starting to come through in Australian culture?
Some old things die hard, where I live there is an English enclave about 10ks away, you can smell them before you meet them.
In a Supermarket the Body odour comes across from the adjoining aisle.

The team plays to the Refs whistle.
Should Australia have jumped up from every tackle and the Kiwis hold Australia down in every tackle?
The Ref decides what he allows in the play the ball.