Melbourne Storm

[LP]

Nah you are focussing on the decisions that were always line ball.

Not really, line ball has not much to do with it.

It's the same driving force that now sees players automatically begging for review pretty much every time there is a score or penalty or other such game breaking influence. It's changing the fabric of sport, team sports, individual sports, the begging has become professional, almost as bad as staging for frees. In tennis for example it's become a delaying tactic.

This whole situation is artificially created by the broadcast technology, and in effect it's the same driving force behind when BT making a song and dance about a goal umpire not knowing someone got a follicle on the ball 60m away before it travelled through the goals!

Now referees and umpires are basically conceding decision making to the video review, in some cases offering vague or unrelated reasons for the request to review.