sergeant pepper wrote:Can't remember who did it, but the shoulder to the head late on in the game (the Penrith guy kicked off about it) would have been a yellow, maybe red over here.
It was Capewell I think, and it would have been a yellow or red over here 4 weeks ago.
The ref let a lot go that he would have hung drawn and quartered for if he missed in a regular season game. Player welfare seemed to go out of the window. But the game could have been ruined or certainly heavily influenced if a team had ten minutes a man down.
There were sevral instances where players stayed down in a tackle to gain a penalty, and he just played on. The game was much better for it.