Joey finds why he refused to name 23 mins of Sharks v Tigers

Andrew Johns put his microphone down for the general 23 mins of Nine’s protection of the Wests Tigers’ disillusioned win over the Sharks on Sunday, revealing on Freddy and The Eighth on Monday night time that he was once appearing in protest following a sin bin blitz to police prime touch all over spherical 8.

Johns was once mute for the exciting golden level sport’s conclusion, after the name to sin bin Fonua Pole for a prime shot that was once to begin with neglected by means of the on-field officers however was once pulled up by means of the Bunker a number of performs later.

“Just another sooky pants moment,” Johns joked.

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“Oh, it was just frustrating. It was doing my head in. I just wanted to throw the microphone. So I left it up to (co-commentators) Freddy (Brad Fittler) and The Tank (Mat Thompson), they unloaded.”

Johns went directly to applaud the NRL for recognising that the Bunker was once having an excessive amount of affect and making a metamorphosis to prevent the video evaluation legitimate for leaping in to interfere a number of performs after a prime take on until it was once deemed to be a significant incident.

That trade will likely be carried out for Magic Round, in keeping with NRL CEO Andrew Abdo, who spoke on 2GB on Monday afternoon, alternatively as a visitor on Nine’s 100% Footy on Monday night time.

Abdo advised 2GB that the NRL needs to look the Bunker handiest interfere for “serious acts of foul play” after 18 sin boxes all over spherical 8.

“I think the Bunker, things like when two players go up to catch a ball, just show it in real time, have a look at it twice,” Johns stated on Freddy and the Eighth, calling for the NRL to keep away from the usage of slow-motion replays to make choices.

“If the (ball) touches their finger and goes into another player, who cares? Just show it in real time. Same as when a ball’s bouncing from a grubber kick, if someone dives on the ball just show it in real time.

“I perceive when the ball is close to the lifeless ball line, you’ll be able to use tremendous sluggish movement there however tremendous sluggish mo, it paints a distinct image.

“Every time the ball goes into the air, it feels like we’re looking for a reason not to give the try, just show it in real time. If it looks like a try, it’s a try.”

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As for the pinnacle prime touch, Johns had prior to now expressed his frustration at the Sunday Footy Show, describing the placement as “farcical”.

Fittler, in the meantime, believes there must be a correction in who will get safe all over a tackling contest.

“About 60 per cent of people getting taken off the field is because they’re tackling, so the majority of these are people who were tackling so it tells you we’re protecting the wrong person and I think what’s happened is they’ve just gone into overdrive on the head contact stuff,” he stated on Freddy and The Eighth.

“I don’t know whether it’s from paranoia about being sued in the future but it just went way too far over the last two weekends.

“Three weeks in the past, Andrew and Graham Annesley in fact got here out and spoke about how they neglected a pair. Jarome Luai in fact ended up getting a few weeks sidelined and so they neglected that all over the sport.

“There was three people during that week and from there, there was just a reaction and that’s what happens in our game a lot, there’s just a reaction through criticism that we may have missed something but at the end of the day, move on.”

On Monday night time, Abdo was once additionally quizzed by means of Nine’s 100% Footy panel over the drama from the weekend.

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When it was once put to Abdo by means of Paul Gallen that injuries occur, the NRL boss claimed sure golf equipment are managing prime touch higher than others.

“The important thing here is the risk of injury to the player, not whether or not they get an injury but what is that action in terms of the risk of the injury,” he stated.

“For decades it’s been illegal to hit players in the head and to have high tackles and we’ve been sin binning and sending players off for decades.

“What we are seeking to get at this time is refining what that bar is and getting that steadiness proper and what we are seeing is a few avid gamers adapting their sport very successfully.

“Some of the teams have not have a sin bin for a head high shot in eight rounds. We’ve had some teams only give away three penalties for head high tackles, some teams as high as 19. It shows teams are able to adapt to this and understand the standard that’s accepted.”