Getting fed up with this season's referee obsession.

Fine, I agree an obviously late challenge should be penalised, especially on kickers who are exposed, but we've seen two ridiculous penalties given early on in the Saints-Leeds semi. It's something I've noticed creeping increasingly into the game and the mentality of the referee this season.

If a player chooses to draw a defender and release the ball late, he knows there is a very good chance that defender will be coming in to make a hit, and a defender cannot pull out of a challenge like that with 0.2 of a second to react.

We do not need more penalties in RL. Give it a break Cummings, it's a farce.

What are the players expected to do?

They are commited to a challenge, and when someone like Burrow who is dangerous with the ball is dancing close to the line, any player will try and make the challenge.

Both early penalties against saints for it were both the wrong call. Both times the player was committed to the tackle and the hit was within a fraction of a second of the player being tackled releasing the ball.

I'm all for protecting players, but at the end of the day it's a physical game and big hits are part and parcel of that game

What pees me off is the inconsistancy of players getting shown yellow cards for it.
A player will get 1 in a game you will then see the exact same situation result in nothing but a penalty for weeks and then all of a sudden another sinbin will appear.
It is even a sinbin offence or it isn't.

Moores was unlucky, Meli's was just a stupid play by Meli,

Meli clearly had the time to pull out, the ball was long gone before he committed himself

It has become a joke, you are going to be committed, it's a contact sport.

Both ridiculous decisions. What is so annoying is that every single set sees two or three of them from any side in any league. Then the ref sees fit to only penalise one team for it, thats when it frustrates.

Meli wasnt, he threw the shoulder in knowing he wasnt going to hit the man with the ball, it was gone before he committed himself.

It does need to be refereed consistantly, you wont find me arguing against that, it is unfortunately ignored a lot of the time. But the game gains nothing from allowing players like Meli throw that shoulder in.

Moore's was unlucky, he was keeping Sinfield honest and we dont want to lose that from the game, but Melis was different.

Meli stood his ground, I thought that was allowed

except when leeds players do it.

In that case it's dirty play.

Listen sunshine, you and I both know that if ryan bailey had put in either of those hits thered be people on here asking why he wasn't sin binned/sent off/burnt at the stake.

Ryan couldn't put challenges like those in though as it would require him to be first in, which our Ryan never is.