QUEENSLANDER!!!!
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The Reggae
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aphelion said:
Oh Greg....
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME[-X
While I agree Tonie isn't the prettiest player going around, Johnathan Thurston, Locky, Dallas Johnson, Chris Flannery and Josh Hannay are all pretty cute.
Especially Johnathan - he just came into my work (about 5 minutes ago!) and I must say he had a very healthy post-Origin winning glow.
Krissy (Still flustered after meeting him!)
Especially Johnathan - he just came into my work (about 5 minutes ago!) and I must say he had a very healthy post-Origin winning glow.
Krissy (Still flustered after meeting him!)
KriDdLe said:Remember Greg McCallum... nsw's answer to the grasshopper... pretty were even
Well Said.......100%
HOWS this though..
QUEENSLAND'S top rugby league official has branded the refereeing in the Origin decider as "incompetent at best" and said standards had fallen dramatically since the retirement of Bill Harrigan.
QRL managing director Ross Livermore also called for the scrapping of the system where only Sydney-based referees were used in the NRL and representative football.
Still seething at referee Steve Clark's display in Queensland's thrilling 16-14 win over NSW in the Origin decider at Melbourne's Telstra Dome, Livermore said he was going on the front foot in his criticism because he could not be accused of sour grapes.
Livermore said the QRL had been complaining for some time about deteriorating standards of refereeing and Wednesday night's performance by Clark and video referee Graeme West was the final straw.
"Surely the best referees should not be making the simple mistakes we saw last night," Livermore said.
"The best you could say about the display was that it was incompetent. I was sitting with some former New South Wales players and they couldn't believe some of the decisions.
"It's a load of hogwash that you have to move to Sydney to get a look in and the QRL has already started moves to get referees from Queensland into the NRL system.
"We have (former Test referee) Eddie Ward working full time here and he could supervise blokes up here."
Livermore said he was outraged that Clark and West had tried to defend some of their decisions on Wednesday night when they should have been offering apologies.
The Queensland camp was furious with at least five decisions, in particular a stripping ruling which denied a try to Maroons lock Tonie Carroll and another that gave NSW winger Eric Grothe his second try after an obvious knock-on by fullback Brett Hodgson.
Livermore said he had heard Hodgson had admitted to a knock-on in leaping for a bomb from Craig Gower but West had claimed his decision was correct.
"It's just not good enough," Livermore said.
"It's one thing to make a mistake but not to apologise is a different thing altogether."
Referees coach Robert Finch backed West's decisions to rule a NSW try after what appeared to be a Hodgson knock-on and to disallow a try to Carroll after Steve Price stripped a ball from Eric Grothe.
"As far as the Hodgson incident is concerned, it's important to remember the referee does not have discretion in these areas," Finch said.
"He has to have evidence of the ball touching the arm or hand to be a knock-on.
"Graeme could see no evidence of that and there is nothing in the video that I've seen that shows the ball coming into contact with the arm or the hand."
Finch was equally adamant the Carroll verdict was correct.
Finch conceded Clark made an error in ruling Queensland half Johnathan Thurston knocked on a ball he did not play at.
Interesting read i say....
Better training of Referees of interpretation of the Rules would be a good start..
charliebrown
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Go the Cane Toads squashed them cockroaches again!!!!!!!!!!!
