Interesting article here https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ssion=true Should give us hope for Ma'u visa

Interesting article here https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ssion=true Should give us hope for Ma'u visa

Manu Mau had a great game last time out for the Eels. He's deffo going to raise the bar of back row quality for us.

Had a good strong game in the win . I really wanted to see Wests Tigers win in Benji Marshall's 300th NRL game.

Manu Ma'u will play on Thursday night in the first NRL game(Brisbane v Parramatta) to have a female referee as one of the 2 controlling the match. I have seen her as a referee in reserve games and is very competent.

Is it the same ref that did the women’s soo , presume so.

Correct. Error by me though. Brisbane play Canterbury not Parramatta on Thurs. Parramatta are away to Manly on Sunday. Sorry!

you are lucky you have a competent woman ref over there,we cant even find a competent male referee over here.

A bit harsh i think.
The standard this season is much better.Most of the time the refs get it right.
The problem is its always the referee when teams get beaten

No it isn't

Personally I think some expect far too much out of the referees and they are scrutinised on every decision in every game due to TV coverage. Yes, they make mistakes, but then again, so to the players / coaches etc.

Its rare a referee will cost a team a game, even when you think of some proper howlers (Ganson missing Dobsons forward pass 2012) its one decision out of 80 minutes. Then again, good bloke that Ganson, he took his time but he managed to even out that howler with and equally impressive decision a year later.

There is far too much going on during a game for 1 ref to be effective any more, particularly with teams training to push the rules to the limit constantly. I believe it's the clubs who clocked the move to 2 refs as they don't want to pay for it but then spend most of the time whinging about refs. I agree, on the whole they get most things right

Well seen a little more of him now, if you’ve been a fan of our manu, you’ll like this guy, looks very very similar

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pr ... YMmq9RgWeA

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pr ... YMmq9RgWeA

Manu was excellent again this morning along with mitch moses (like to have him at FC as well but not going to happen). wouldn't like to call the nrl playoffs this season - lots of teams in good form

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/mau-turn ... -fc-21605/

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/mau-turn ... -fc-21605/

Ma's stats this weekend
144m
5 tackle busts
1 line break
33 tackles (0 misses)
3 offloads
0 errors

Sl top meter maker averages 140ish per game, nrl it’s up at 190 per game and loads have an average over 150. It’s a different standard, if he can consistently produce stats like that in super league, he’ll be a beast for us

His full stats are here.... https://www.nrl.com/players/nrl-premier ... /manu-mau/ They even include minutes played per game.

His full stats are here.... https://www.nrl.com/players/nrl-premier ... /manu-mau/ They even include minutes played per game.

The better metreage in the nrl is probably down to the better refereeing keeping the sides apart properly and stopping the messing about at the ptb

Probably explains why our forwards are not making the meters we'd have expected.



Even saints are complaining (to the rfl)….

wire did exactly the same to us in the semi. Was hicks the ref for our semi?

You obviously did not see the recent Canberra v Manly match which had around 26 penalties due mainly to problems in the areas you detailed. A truly horrible game between 2 sides battling for a top 4 spot.

Yet still better than any game in sl this season

Yes, it was Hicks in our semi.

It just shows that a referee can nullify even the best attack in SL by simply allowing the opposition to remain offside for most of the game.