🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About The NRL Bunker?

Does the NRL bunker pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation down.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the Jonesy demand of arms for the pub test.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Today, bunkers as in NRL bunkers, not World War II bunkers.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 4 (00:13):
World War two bunkers. We're putting it to the pub test.
So yes, what we're looking at is Wayne Bennett who
said these interesting words in a press conference, get rid
of it.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't want to hear that.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, no one wants to hear it.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I was one of those that didn't like the bunker originally,
but now I love it.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I love the theatrics.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I like that little sound, that that ding ding sound
when they get six again. I love the theatrics. So
that's what footy is about entertainment. I think people get
bogged down in the tintas. And I know I'm going
to contradict myself here because sometimes the bunker can uncover
those particular tic TACs tintacks. But still the bunker is great.
When you see a screaming try and they ground it

(00:52):
as just great.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
But it takes a momental way. You see a screaming
try and they ground it. That's the old school of playing.
Now we're going to look at every pass, we're going
to look at every kick, We're going to go every tackle.
It slows the game down and takes away the natural
pace from the game. But what do you think should
we get rid of the bunker? Does it pass the
pub test?

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, there should be no bunker. It should be the
referee decision the whole time. We'll live with it before
media and all that type of thing. If the referee
gets it wrong, it gets it wrong. But if it's
a good referee, we should think everything is going on
the tust judge, you should do their job and batfully,
we don't need the bunker.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
Why to stop there? Get rid of the bunker and
then get rid of the league altogether. Like you know,
then Union might be able to get some supporters. If
they can't crutify on our forward path, that could make
or break your team on winning a game. So get
rid of the bunker. If they can't utify on a
forward path.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, I reckon it does pass the pub test. Well
you need in the game. I think that it's very
hard to have a happy medium. But you get a
lot of people that are saying, you know, decisions are wrong.
You get complaints right away and probably is the rules
and the game change every year, and they stand down
certain things and then next year they won't like. So
it's more the rule for the game that's problem, not

(02:08):
the bunker.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
I tend to agree.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
Referees are paid to make the decision. Leave the theatrics
for the movies. Get rid of the bunkers, definitely not.
They get it wrong and there's no comeback on it.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
The coach MOUs up against the bunker. It gets fine.
Player says something wrong, he gets fine.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
The bunker gets strunk.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Hey, nothing matters. Get rid of the bunker.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
The bunker gets away with it scott free.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, the bunkers of having drinks after the game.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Thank you for all your calls.