A rugby league legend has ripped into “time-wasting” groups and trainers within the recreation with the NRL saying there are a couple of “disincentives” for gamers who feign harm.
Speaking on Triple M on Sunday, NRL CEO Andrew Abdo was requested how the league can deter gamers to remain down to choose up a penalty or cease time within the present setting of elevated sin bins as a consequence of hip drops and harmful tackles.
“We spend a lot of time in the off-season thinking about ways we can mitigate the risk of players feigning injury,” Abdo stated.
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“The Bunker can only intervene and stop play if it’s a reportable offence so we’ve raised the benchmark slightly, and now we’ve seen less of it.
“It’s about getting the balance right between the ref on the field, who’s only got his set of eyes and where he’s looking and the benefit of another experienced match official in the Bunker looking at multiple angles.
“We don’t want to over analyse things too much, we want continuity, but also making sure we identify the really material ones.”
Abdo went onto say that participant security is paramount and all precautions will likely be taken, together with taking a participant from the bottom if he has faked an harm for a penalty.
“Player wellbeing and safety with regards to HIA’s, we aren’t going to take a backwards step for that however if a player is going to feign injury and they stay down on the ground for too long, well they are going to be removed,” Abdo stated.
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“The club doctor or the independent doctor is going to take them from the field for assessment, so I think there are a few disincentives.”
Gorden Tallis as an alternative directed his frustration in direction of some groups and their trainers, who he says come onto the sector throughout an harm for the only real motive “to waste time.”
While not referencing any explicit incident this season, Tallis believes it’s a situation that’s taking place far too usually, labelling it his “gripe of the game”.
“When trainers stand there when players get hurt, and we all know it’s only to give his team 1-2 minute break, I don’t like that,” Tallis stated on Triple M.
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“Just take the player off. You (trainers) aren’t a doctor, don’t sit there and assess. Get the player off and take him to the doctor.
“You stand there and do this half-arsed test but you have no idea what you are looking at.
“It is time wasting. If your team is under the pump, it’s a directive from the coach and it’s not cool.
“For the trainer that comes on when a player gets injured even though he isn’t injured and he stands in the middle of play, get off. Don’t stand there and stop the play.
“He’s got his designer stubble around his face, he’s lifted one bench press in his life, he’s never played a game of rugby league and he stands there to get on television so his Mum can say, I saw you on TV darl.”
Tallis stated it’s a difficulty that’s “been on my nerve for a while”, remembering a 2021 closing between Parramatta and Penrith the place a Panthers coach was suspended for the remainder of the season for stopping play late within the recreation because the Eels had been on the assault.
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Tallis’ Triple M co-host, former Bulldogs and Dragons enforcer James Graham argued that the gamers personal some accountability in these conditions.
“What I think players are doing and I say this often, but we are products of our environment so players know that if they are in a position that they think it may be a hip drop tackle or a crusher tackle or receive some of contact to the head, they’ll take longer to get up” Graham stated.
“It then becomes a Mexican standoff between the player and the referee.
“The referee should just wait, and say I’ve not seen an infringement here so just play the ball or penalise the players.
“The incidents where it tends to happen is when they player has the ball and waiting to be checked by the Bunker but that’s something I really don’t like and what I’d like to see from the NRL, is to take the Bunker out of general play. If the referee misses any head contact initially, leave that to the match review committee.
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“If the player stays down, here’s two potential solutions. The referee should keep saying play the ball, just keep saying that, and if they don’t play the ball, penalise them for time wasting and give the ball to the opposition. Or they bring out the stretcher.
“The stoppages in the game are just so frustrating for the fans.”
Tallis added that there was one participant he seen throughout Magic Round who gained his respect for not attempting to exploit a penalty.
“I want everybody to look at Canberra’s Jamal Fogarty over the weekend. Josh Reynolds hit him high and if he lays down, it’s a penalty, but he gets up and keeps going and I was like, I like you so much,” Tallis stated.
“He is now one of my favourite players now because in that moment, he showed that the game was the star.”
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