The Sending Off : Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:33 pm  

I have have just watched a rerun of the game today and noticed that Singleton would have got away with the elbow charge had the game not been televised. The video ref nowanday looks at who should be red carded aswell as trys

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 1:13 pm  

Kallum Watkins has just come in third man with a swinging arm to Matty English’s head . The lad goes down injured but the Sky don’t rerun it from every possible angle and the ref and video ref aren’t at all interested in taking a look at it . Where is the consistency?

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 1:28 pm  

Consistency is a major problem in the game (and all sport TBH)

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:22 pm  

For me it was a definite sending off,but how the hell Sezer didn't get sent off i don't know,he hit Richardson on the chin

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:55 pm  

I think many saints fans are 50/50 on it?

It could have been a red or yellow, worse have been missed but I have no issue in video refs jumping in to correct errors. Happens in NFL all the time and no one moans about it.

I'm sure if we had the money then we would have cameras at every game whether televised or not

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:54 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I think many saints fans are 50/50 on it?

It could have been a red or yellow, worse have been missed but I have no issue in video refs jumping in to correct errors. Happens in NFL all the time and no one moans about it.

I'm sure if we had the money then we would have cameras at every game whether televised or not

But we don't.

It's galling enough that a televised game is officiated to a different set of rules to a non-televised game. The video ref piping in and telling the on-field ref to send someone off is ridiculous. If the on-field ref hasn't seen it in real time then it's up to the panel to rule on it during the week.

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:22 pm  

I'd just love to see a captain's challenge inserted into the UK game.

Can you imagine the egg on the referees' faces, when 7 out of every10 of their decisions are overruled?

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:31 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

I'd just love to see a captain's challenge inserted into the UK game.

Can you imagine the egg on the referees' faces, when 7 out of every10 of their decisions are overruled?

Only 7? They're improving then.

Re: The Sending Off : Sun Jul 10, 2022 11:39 pm  

I think the decision on the sending off was influenced by Napa not getting a red against Saints, then receiving a 5 match ban. The thought being that if it's worth 5 matches it should have been a ban. This influenced the video ref in this situation.

Re: The Sending Off : Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:59 am  

P-J wrote:

But we don't.

It's galling enough that a televised game is officiated to a different set of rules to a non-televised game. The video ref piping in and telling the on-field ref to send someone off is ridiculous. If the on-field ref hasn't seen it in real time then it's up to the panel to rule on it during the week.

The rules are not different they are the same, it's just about the odds of them being applied and enforced correctly.

It's a bit like saying if you get caught speeding by the police you should not be punished because they are not monitoring your speed on every road.

I think it' is ridiculous to say that in a match we know that a dangerous incident has occurred but we will sit on our hands and do nothing because we are a bit of a luddite sport.