They should have them at all games or non at all.



I this case though if there was a video ref at this game I reckon Hodgson's try would've been chalked off as he dropped the ball while trying to ground the ball. Swings and roundabouts n'all that.

This.



Seems like they've sat down, gone through the match and Sandercock has breached their confidentiality to whinge about one specific, marginal incident trying to infer they were badly done to. Paints him in a poor light, IMO.

Hull KR ran well overall over the 80 minutes.



Their stupid ill-discipline caused their blow-out in the final quarter.



I hope Super-cock realises this.



Well done to Tvoc for noticing TMFMISL's superb 'dummy run' which drew in a host of red and white shirts in this incident.

tbf like tvoc says if video replays were in use hodgsons try would have been dissallowed, I hope sandercock's not gonna be a moaner, we've already got enough of them in super league.

One of the Cas trys v Salford was just as questionable and they had a VR but still given and St's and Wire score plenty more blatant than the Watkins one it's strange none of the highlight shows called it as such and mentioned the bad read by Dobson.

Contradicts himself anyway by saying the discussion between the two parties will be kept in house but then goes on to tell the tale of one of their "talking" points. A fitting coach for a club with a fitting reputation....

Giving an idea is no different to what we have already at the non televised games, where we additionally have in-goal judges whose sole responsibility appears to be to assess the validity of tries. The on-field officials (four pairs of eyes for each score) are actually reasonably capable of making these calls if you're prepared to trust them to do so.







Precisely on the first part so what's the point in wasting money, time and effort to introduce a system the game can't afford and likely as not will not be any more reliable than trusting the on field officials.



I thought tonight's game was a reasonably apt demonstration of how useful a non broadcast quality system would be. When it takes a camera situated appox 90 metres away to clearly see a 'no try' after cameras at the scoring end appeared to show a possible score it's highly likely that 'try' would have been awarded when perhaps the referee's instinct had correctly told him the ball was bounced.



Don't get me wrong I'd like to have the full video referee available at every game but I just don't see it happening on financial grounds.



Back in Ashley Klein's SL days they had a trial at Hull KR but (despite it being relatively successful) the clubs baulked at the annual price tag for introducing it. Someone may remember the actual figure but I recall it being at least £250K.



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Yeah .... minus two dodged a potential bullet there. McGuire might have had to take a share of it or perhaps all of it as I don't think Opta do half penalties.

You were lucky Blake Green wasnt playing or Rovers would of kicked your a-se !

My thoughts exactly mate. Welcome to the little league! A 14-5 pen count should be his concern. I would think that might be more to do with his teams loss, or maybe all that spoiling stopped it been a cricket score?

Sorry mate but have to massively disagree.



If you take last nights game at the new (and quite impressive) Langtree Park for instance - when Dixon (??) was through for a touchdown. From 3 camera angles it looked like a nailed on try then from the final 4th camera it was clearly a knock on.



If you're going to have a video ref then it needs to have an entire professional infrastructure to support him and just not a couple of groundsmen with Handycams.

I love australians, they never accept responsibility for anything

Is he moaning? Or is he making a valid point?



I think he is making a very valid point - everyone should be playing under the same rules and conditions.



It's like saying - we haven't got enough touch judges, so we'll only have 2 touch judges at 3 games this weekend - people wouldn't stand for it.



Whilst I think the video ref can assist in the decision, I have also seen many a strange one and don't always see "Slow mo" as effective.



However, Season 17 - we should have the technology at all games or not at all.