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Date Posted: Sun, September 02 2007, 2:37:27 GMT-10
Author: Oliver Baasch
Subject: Challenge to Ref's call as per tennis' Hawk-Eye?

Hi all,

I am interested in what you think of an idea I had for reducing the impact of incorrect ref's calls to the result of NRL games.

I propose a ‘Challenge to Refs Call’ is made available to each team at the time of the call, in the same manner as is now the case for Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments with the “Hawk-Eye” system. In tennis, each player is given a number of challenges per set that count down if the challenge is unsuccessful. If successful the player keeps the challenge. The decision is based upon a computer generated projection of the ball to determine if the ball was in our out, while in League the decision would be passed to the Video Ref.

How it could work - Each team is given two challenges per half. At the time of a ref’s call, the player involved indicates to his captain that the call was wrong.
The captain instructs the ref that they are challenging the call. The Video ref would then view the evidence and give the result to the Ref. If the video referee agrees with the original call, then the challenging team loose 1 challenge, but if he disagrees, they keep it to use again.

This system would allow the ref to keep on calling the game as per normal, and only if the players felt that he got a call wrong, and were sure enough to risk losing a challenge, would they challenge the call. I expect this would have the following positive effects to the game:
- As has happened in tennis, league players would no longer complain about ref’s calls as they now have an avenue for challenging if they truly believe they have been wronged
- Incorrect ref’s calls will have less chance of impacting the outcome of the game.

A negative impact of this system could be that it would slow the game down by adding more video referee pauses, however another idea may reduce the number of times the video referee is required. At the time of Team 1’s challenge to the ref’s call, Team 2 can be asked if they agree that the call was wrong. By telling the truth up front and offering a quick result, Team 2 may be entitled to an extra challenge, so long as they keep offering up the quick result in following challenges.

I am interested in what you think about this idea and it’s chances of being implemented in the NRL?

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