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 Gama.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
NRL footy Bunker. Does it pass the pub test? When
it first came in I was against it. Then for
certain tries, I think it's pretty good. It's stopped a
lot of people yell them get onside ref because they've
managed to sort that out a little bit. But then
what we saw over the weekend was a lot of
sinbins and where the player had been going for a minute,

(00:25):
then all of a sudden there's a call to the
ref to stop the game. So there was multiple times
when tries were happening a minute in an NRL game.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a long time is a.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Long time, and people are blowing up about this. I
thought Willie Mason had a very very point.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
But like, whoever's in there, guy's ease or they've got
too much power. Let the ref's ref, whoever's in the box,
just pull the game up if it's something egregious and
someone's knocked out and the ref actually missed it. Other
than that, let it roll.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think I just like that will He used the
word egregious.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, they're asking you that this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Pregious is a great word. Andrew Abdo, the NRL CEO,
boss Man. He was unapologetic about this.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
We won't take a back good step from player safety,
and our policy is clear and it's been consistent. We
want to protect players from direct force, all headnot.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
So that's what they're saying is this is the way
we have to clamp down on concussions and on the
player safety. What do you think the Footy Bunker is
it past the pub test?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It goes lot. It was the biggest pats of money
and they ever put in, as far as I can say,
the rest of there to do a job. Let the
rest ate the calls if they missed something, so the
move on play the eight. I'm old enough to remember
a guy called REGs Moss when I heard him one
day so when I was seven years old. If we
use these slow motion replays, there'd never be another wrong

(01:48):
call ever again. He'd be absolutely rolling in his grave.
They still get things wrong. Obviously that I passed the
pub test.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
No, if the Bunker has not passed the pub test,
for goodness sake, just lets the game play and that
way it will be a nicer, smoother, all round enjoyable
game to watch. Definitely not they get it wrong and
there's no comeback on them.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Get rid of the Bunker, get rid of the Bunker.