Tactic

[The Skeez]

Parra are the worst at getting a HIA around the time they would need a forward rotation substitution.

[mattyh]

Id rather lose the game than feign injury to help win it

me too.

[OMR]

What happened is that the play went on and some Parra player got tackled by J Hughes and then he's holding down the Parra player screaming at the ref to stop the play. The Storm have delayed from taking dropouts by feigning injury...Souffs were trying it today too.

The ref was a weak c&@* who shouldn’t listen to players and referee the game as per the rules and penalise the little pr$*€ for his holding down the play.
Bill harrigan would’ve.

[ROC181]

The ref was a weak c&@* who shouldn’t listen to players and referee the game as per the rules and penalise the little pr$*€ for his holding down the play.
Bill harrigan would’ve.

Im thinking that the directions in this case are so vague that the refs are erring in the side of caution because there was an incident a few years ago where the ref got blasted by the media for not stopping the game when there was a serious incident but the ref continued with the play because it was well away from the injured player and that was the usual way to deal with injuries... Even in the Roosters Sharks game Dugan injures his leg in our try line and the play goes on and Keary scores and then the commentators on Fox, Voss being one, were depicting this as a controversial try because Dugan wasn’t where he was supposed to defending, as well as John Morris stating after the game that the game should have been stopped, even though Dugan did get up and continued playing.

The refs should be told that if there is a need to stop playing for an injury, then once they get to the injured player, they should remove them and be treated outside so the play can go on even if the team has to play a man down. The other option is to use more often that ruling where if a player needs simple treatment like when Fergo was playing for us and wanted to get treatment after a call for a scrum and he was told to go out and only come back on once we got the ball back from the other team. That would eliminate the fakes.