'Don't like it': Gus' take on six again 'blitz'

Oh, we saw a sin bin for a trip. Yeah. Did you like what you saw? Well, yeah, I thought it was a sin bin. They used to be send. I was back in the day. But one thing that probably surprised me is we've seen we've seen a number of trips recently this year anyway. And I I can't remember too many that have been sent to the sin bin. Some have, some haven't, but hardly any. It's, well, hardly any out there. You go. So look, the refereeing and the bunker rules and how inconsistent they are, it's not surprising. The only thing consistent about is the fact they're inconsistent. We understand that. But there there there hasn't been many sent to the centre. The Symbian, he got sent, they actually had two sent to the Symbian. So they're down to 12 men, twice the Cowboys. That's how good their defence was yesterday. And look, we've been complaining about it all year. It's not going to stop just just the way it is. I think that trip was in particular because it was very much a try scoring opportunity. I think had he not made contact with the leg probably scores Lorry. Lorry scores. So they probably had to penalize that one a little more harsh had to been out in general play and they just probably put him on report and and gone again. So and it was at a vital stage of the game too. Panthers have been on their line for some time and just couldn't crack them. Dane Lorry was their most dangerous player of the day. He was. Does that matter guys? Does that matter? If you trip someone anywhere on the field, whether there's a Tri screaming opportunity to know if you trip someone, should you go to the bin or not? Why? Why are some getting sent to the Symbian and others aren't? I can't answer that. I've got no idea. Yeah, well, no one can. No one can. That's the problem with what's going on at the moment. Like, seriously, look at that. Look at that. Yeah, that that's if that's do you get sent for that? That is a blatant scent of every day of the week. And let me tell you, back in the old days, if you did that, you went home in a body bag. Oh, I've got no doubt it's someone come across. So the coach started dialling triple loading it down the inside and someone fixed it up for you. Is it that bad an act? Like, I mean, as a player you guys played it. Is it that considered that bad? Probably not these days. Dangerous. What we haven't seen is a broken ankle or a broken shin bone out of it yet, which can happen, you know, like it's it's that's where the outrage. Look, they're they're they're so agile these days. They're so big, they're so strong. They're so agile that you and a lot of them are just reactionary. But yeah, I think I I just don't understand why one's at one's 10 minutes in the bin and another one's not. That's what gets everyone. I think the thing about legs and the things why football is legs are your tools a trade. And I keep saying you can play with any injury above the waist pretty much, you know, but but your legs are your tools a trade. So anything that's going to risk broken legs or those sorts of things, they're very, very particular about Gus. Tell me this. We're seeing a few back-to-back to back six again. Are we in the middle of a set restart blitz? It's a blitz. It's a blitz. Crack handing. They're handing them out like Eminem's smarties. I don't know. How do you feel about it? I I don't like it. I've never liked it. I've never liked the situation. It's it's kind of like if they had to give a penalty, I doubt they'd give the penalty, but because they've got that's because they've got the safety of this six again thing where they don't have to be held accountable for it and they don't have to explain it and people in the crowd are going on. What's that for? Why was that? What's that for? Why was that? But the but the play's already gone. The play's moved on. So they banged straight away. Focus back on where the boys and move on. I I think the the players have some, some of the ends for it too. You gotta remember when there's a scrum, particularly 10 twins out from the trial line, nine times out of 10, the team's given away a set. There's one tackle they've made, they slow it down, they wait till the line's set, they'll blow 6 again. It's it's only one, one extra tackle. So the players are contributing to that. But some of the other ones, they're just, I agree with you. There's blowing them doing it for the sake. And if they had to blow the whistle, there's no way they'll stop the whole game. They just wouldn't. So it's frustrating for everyone because as I said, no one knows what's going on and the fact the play rolls on, they don't have the answer for it. My, my, my point is that if they didn't blow them, I I think the art of refereeing, particularly at the top level, is the ones that you don't blow, you let the game flow. All right. And we say it every year, the games where there are less penalties and less six against flow, they're more enjoyable. The players get into a fatigued state. The football looks after itself. If you keep doing that, everyone gets frustrated. Do we do we remember why they came in the six again? No, I can't remember. OK, was, was the reason was because Melbourne still more wrestling that that was the, the quiet reason why they were brought in to stop that sort of the play in the ruck. Melbourne sitting on top of the comp again. Yeah, I don't know. I think it was, I think it was a well then they brought the six again in and then they decided not to do it inside their footy cause teams were deliberately kicking down and giving away a couple on the first couple tackles to slow them down so they can get their set of six or coaches will always work through it. All right. But you're kind of playing into their hands, blowing them sometimes. I, I just think a lot of the six again that we give are unnecessary. And if they were normal penalties, they wouldn't give them, they wouldn't award them. Yep. Last week we talked about these inconsistencies. We had the Roger tool, faster shake lifting tackle that resulted in a sin bidding. Yeah, last night, RP Korosal finds himself in the bin. Look, the RP Korosal one, I could, I could understand immediately a penalty. So the the the two of us to check on was ridiculous. It was even a penalty. It was embarrassing for the game. That was even a penalty. Is it a bin? This? No, no, no way. It was a simply the two of us. Check this one here. I could understand why it was a penalty. The reason that he was sent to the SIM in my opinion 'cause there was a scuffling play the set before it. Now I believe the referee was losing control and thought I've got to settle this down. So when he got lifted him up, he did get in a dangerous position, but he got put down flat on his back. I reckon the referee thought, I've got to settle this down. I'm going to put something in the Sydney just to slow and take the heat out of the game. I I think that's why he did it, because there's no way in the world that should have been a Sydney. No way. It just it just I could understand the position he got in a penalty straight away because initially he did get in a dangerous position, but it didn't end bad at all. So the video ref, the bunker should've relayed that to the referee and said penalty only that went to the sin bin because two of us, a shek went to the sin bin and they they supported the decision. But you think they'd if they'd have come out last week and said, look, that probably shouldn't have been a sin bin. Yeah, OK. There's no way Corazon goes to the sin bin this week. So this, this stupid word that they use is consistency, right? They want now you want what's right? You want what's fair at the time. Not every incident is the same. They're all different. It's just gotta come down there. Have you heard what? And as he said, what's that? And as they've apparently come out and said, it shouldn't have been a sin bin. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, but he said it should have been. No, absolutely. Yeah. But I'm saying it wouldn't have been a sin bin only for the fact that they supported the decision justify the check the week before. How can he? So what? What the referee seek now is, well, we've gotta be consistent because that happened last week. Forget last week, forget what happened 5 minutes ago. Let's judge what this is cause 'cause origin count, though, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. High tackles, obstructions, stripping rules, all these types of things in the game, they're all different, they're all individual and you've got to trust the referee and the instinct of the referee to make a decision on the time that's the right decision and the fair decision. You shouldn't be held accountable for this, this, this consistency thing because the consistency is what causes the problem. The search for consistency, which will never happen, is why you get decisions like that. I just can't get our energy ones. Where did he agree with the two of us? Check one. Yeah, he said it. Yeah. Until he until he watched it in slow motion. Then he realised there was a danger of him being. Yeah, but. But. But he said it's a possibility of danger. They said the decision was right. Yeah, exactly right. They're saying. And then the week later he's saying it was wrong. Yeah. Figure that. Yeah, Figure that. No, we can't. No, that's what that's crazy. I don't understand. So what's a referee to do? What's a bunker to do? Referee on what? He sees What What are the bunkers? What are the bunkers? Obsessed with Black and white and consistency. These two terms that have been put into our rugby league language which are ridiculous. Black and white and consistency. Our game is not black and white and it's not consistent. Not every incident is exactly the same as the one before. Keep trying to find that and think you're gonna please the public and please the footballers and please, it's wrong. We know the other one is. It's not gonna happen. He's the obstruction rule. The the obstruction rules don't stop me on obstruction. But I've I've seen, I've seen a couple in weeks gone by dead set obstruction rules, blocking the blocking the lead runner blocking. So I'm gonna be in a water truck 'cause they say it wouldn't have affected the play. Then yesterday in the Rooters game, same thing happens. No, try.