COCKNEY GIANT wrote:Rightly so.
I don't agree with Justin or any other coach publicly having a go at the ref. Their job is hard enough anyway.
But it's obvious that refs have had a directive to be more lenient at the play the ball and this has been a gift from heaven for Nathan Brown.
Holding down, wrestling and interfering at the play the ball is the platform around which the Giants game is built this season.
Ben Thaler seems to have taken 'lenient' to a new dimension and stretched it to 'anything goes'.
I think the Giants and Nathan Brown should enjoy it while the going is good. It's only a matter of time before the RFL realises that they need to go back to promoting a quick play the ball.
Nathan Brown is fresh from Australia where slow play the balls and wrestling techniques have been in vogue for a while. Over here you would normally get penalised out of a game for that, but things seemed to have changed at least for now.
Suddenly we get another World Cup beating and the RFL decide we'll do whatever the Aussies are doing.
The Giants can play good rugby too there's no doubt about that. It'll be interesting to see how they get on later in the season when inevitably, the destructive side of their game plan is clamped down on.