You know its bad when Gus and Gal are agreeing.

Getting hit in the head can make you sound like the four tackle bags sitting around this table.

At least they stayed consistent… that’s all we ask for as fans

Everyone’s just mad the roosters are out and the sharks lost hahahah

Gus and Paul are right. Some of those were ludicrous and should not have even been penalties. The game is getting really soft and over-regulated. I hope they fix this.

The crazy thing is this is discussed openly almost weekly on this show yet no change is ever made from the bunkers refereeing decisions, get the bunker out of the game, it turns the NRL into the laughing stock of sports in Australia and world wide. Abdo HAS to go, he's ruined the NRL

Still confused as to how Taukeiaho can come back out to play after playing the ball sideways and shuffling along like he did a poo but Tedesco cant come back on.

Rugby league is a rough & tough sport as Gus said, but the snowflakes in the bunker are trying to turn it into softball not football. Yes I agree some of those indiscretions were penalties, but NOT send offs. The ref should have called the captains together & gave them an earful about the reckless tackles & the next blokes going to the bin, let’s be honest some we’re high, Latrelle milking penalties was farcical..

Imagine being a journalist who pumps up the rivalry between these two teams and then they are dumbfounded when emotions run rampant between the two sides. With that being said... Go the Bunnies!!!!!

8:00 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!!!!!!!

Didn't hear anything Gus said. My eyes glued on the $100

The Nanny bunker needs to pull it's head in our I'm going to lose it!

Gus spitting straight facts 😤

Roosters are protected species in the nrl the media love them and cry when they lose

Gus the guru always makes so much sense. The bunk is no business in controlling the game

Sunday night after the GF ref will say to the wife " did you see me decide the comp tonight?"

The doubleheader on saturday night deserves more attention in my book.

This was the best game ive seen in years. Bring back the Biff!

For all injuries excluding HIA’s a substitution needs to forced. It will introduce a price to pay for laying down. Sure, you may get your penalty but you’ll lose that player and lose one substitution (or 2 if you decide to bring that player back on) or potentially be a man down while he is off the field, which may be enough to stop players laying down. If a player is genuinely injured from an illegal tackle, the defender should also be in the bin or sent off. There’s a valid counter argument that suggests players may genuinely feel injured but are then okay to play on afterwards. Although fair, that player needs to be helped off the field immediately and be assessed. You can’t just let go of the ball (which is a knock on) and expect the referee to stop the game as well as stay on the field. The referee should’ve initially blown a knock on when Latrell put that ball down, cause the play was not stopped. He let Latrell do his job and it was embarrassing to see. Simply put. Lay down = Get off

What in the hell did gal and gus smoke before that! Bring back the biff 💪 that was the most exciting game of the 2022 season. Rocks in there heads

Always seems the game winner’s are being taken out, if a player has to leave the field because of head attack, the player who committed the act should leave the field and only return when the player hurt return’s. I believe this will reduce the offence’s

Been waiting for Gus on this one .....

Nelsen asofa solomona did 2 elbow drops to the head in 2 weeks, 1 in which knocked out a guys teeth, and nothing happened. Storm favouritism

Spot on Gus Good luck with the future , cause I can see the game changing to touch footy and loosing its fans

Both these 2teams have some good actors they should both have boxing teams to fight each others in the ring every end of each season

It's the roosters and rabbitohs for fk sake of course it was going to be out of control 😆

I watched the game and yes some sin bins were reactive. Although you can't deny the game has morphed into where it is today because of the coaching. Very little wrestling anymore to slow the play down. Instead attack high, yes to wrap the ball up but also maybe get a head bin or better still player out for the match. You can see some players are not playing in the spirit of the game, they just want to out and out injure players. Isn't the idea of competing and winning against your opponent all about out thinking, out playing and out skilling them. Not about trying to remove them from the game by injuring them. All the excuses and blame shifting doesn't remove the real blight on Rugby League. No more high tackles and only two in to tackle. Let the ball be thrown around or offloaded more. That'll make the game more exciting, open it up and increase the skill.

Gus 'I said this 10 years ago' Gould

Gus and Paul are 100% correct. NRL changing the rules and decisions from " the bunker" will ul

If the referees let the high shots go yesterday it'd have been a way more grubby game. You have to factor in that players are way way bigger, stronger and if they're allowed to get away with 'a bit' brutality (don't call it toughness) do you think both sets of players say 'OK all good .. lets play footy now'. No way, it ends with 80 mins of spiteful, vengeful crap, you're basically handing the whistle to the players.. thats too hard to referee. Going forward if the referees are allowed to use the necessary authority, it means the opposition has to find a legal way to stop Teddy. It is naive to think the hit on Tedesco was an accident, its total BS .. the coaches and players want to run the game and thats all it's ever been about. The toughness comes with fatigue, pressure, responsibility, loyalty, not retaliating and giving 100%. The 'win at all costs! we'll worry about the effects of head knocks later' mentality is redundant and Abdo for all the criticism actually is the tough person in all this, to handle bile that gets spat at him and still try to do the right thing by the key stakeholders in the game.

Nah. Gotta protect players. Burgess was reckless and probably worse and JWH should have been sent off. Rules are rules. That hit on Tedesco sealed the game, wiped him out. Should have been a send off too. I hate games where there a sin binning and send offs too but I hate watching games where players have been rubbed out by illegal play as well.

Gus...demonstrating that dinosaurs are actually not extinct after all.

I don't have a problem with the bunker, it's not perfect but it's as close you'll get to a fair decision in most cases. These guys no matter what state the game is in will find something to whinge about, it's what keeps them in a job, create controversy etc....

Ahh, nothing better than a “in the old days” comment from Yoda about the state of the game. He even knows about the impending legal cases apparently!! Let it go dude!!

10 months later... They have not fixed it 😂😂😂

Some order some fish and chips. We need something to put all this salt on lol

A punch is a punch

Gus is right, as he always shows Logic and Common Sense...

Lol if the ref left those idiots on then fist would start flying and people would still criticize the refs.

Gus is such a dino

The thumbnail lol

Compared to the amount of teams in NHL ,players,with the population of both USA / Canada vs NRL,Teams,players and population of Australia, the difference of pay per player is only 4k on average. Yet NHL is more tactical and prone to more injuries throughout a season. What I'm trying to say is that the players sign on the dotted line what they are getting themselves into . NRL doesn't need to be over officiated, the money being spent on the bunker should be going towards Grass Roots . That is all .

Which sin bins do you think weren’t appropriate then

The bunker is scared of the lawyers. Someone gets hurt, someone is gonna get sued.

gus is right once again

Random comment: how long until Charlie is referred to as King Charles the Turd!

Gus speaks it as he sees it and we QUOTE: "It's refereeing from the bunker" - QUOTE: "An embarrassment to the code" QUOTE: "Absolute fear, fear of concussion" - " Been waiting for a tsunami of litigation, has not arrived yet, I assume it's still coming from the Pacific. UNQUOTE

Gus would still be having a sook, if it was the Bulldogs in that game, lost and none of the sin bins were handed out 🤷🏻‍♂️

Roosters and Rabbitohs were an embarrassment. I’m no fan of Klein but what’s he meant to do there when two teams spend 80 minutes throwing cheap shots and tackling high all game? About time these two teams get punished for the dirty way they play the game. Gus is just mad the Cowboys and Sharks put on a better show.

Gus has all the rant but none of the answers. If they start sending them off he'll also go nuts. Says " unfounded" medical advice on concussion. With Gallen sitting right there who just this week as discussed his fears of brain damage. And honestly .. the JWH head slam was worth a dissection. Far and away the worst thing done. Absolute intent. Needed to be 12 weeks.

I was watching rugby league from 1984 until 2015 then I stopped watching . I haven’t seen it since , and now I click on this clip. Its a totally different game now .

Radley being binned was fine. Everyone knows if u throw a punch no matter how soft u get binned. I do want to know what milne did to make rsdley so mad tho

Standard channel 9. "Don't penalise the roosters."

I think the bunker actually adds to the spectacle, the playback of the dirty plays or head highs on the big screen and the crowds reaction - it makes for drama and builds the tension of the game.

gus is 100% right

All that ever comes up in my KZfaq feed is 'Gus winging over something else now'. How about he get involved in administration if he thinks it is that bad. Oh right. It is much easier to criticise.

Can someone please explain what Wighton was penalised for in the 74th minute Moses tackle? There was no high or dangerous contact, and Moses wasn’t held. Klein cited “unnecessary contact”.

Paul Gallen should organize a boxing match

Gus is totally correct again

Gus thermo-nuclear farts

I was at the game live and it was a horrible “football game” and I was surprised when I saw online that people were loving it at home. Good so see I’m not going crazy

100% correct

you stop the players lying on the floor for penalties by sending them for a HIA!

Its like I'm watching soccer football

Honestly there had to of been a Sendoff as like, 4 high tackles to 1 team

NRL the new Australian dive team in the making .

Totally agree with Gus. It's a tough brutal sport. I agree high shots and head slams aren't on but the sin bins in that game were atrocious. Hargreaves and burgess probably deserved a rest but the other 5 were a joke. Its not hand bags at two paces. In a collision sport like rugby league accidents and head clashes are inevitable so play at your own risk and accept the consequences if any. And don't blame the game you played and loved and got paid big dollars for, for any future problems. Don't try and water it down just so people don't get hurt. That's the whole lure of the game. The Toughness, the skill, the fitness of these special athletes that play through pain and attrition make us go "wow !" Take out the legal brutality and soon we'll be left with touch footy. While former players developing early onset dementia is extremely sad, somewhere in the world every 3 seconds someone develops dementia. It is now the third biggest killer of Australians behind heart disease and cancer. I think there's more to it than head knocks from rugby league ! 🤔

If you lay down to milk a penalty then the ref should give the penalty to the opposition.

The Roosters Souths game was more farcical than F1 race or a soccer game . Players taking key players out around head so they know they get the new mandatory head bin and people milking laying down like soccer players do all the time . Football coaching has role is difficult and has become so unscrupulous .They have found more ways to cheat and get away with it hoping you won't notice . It's not like ist used to be.

its how NRL is rigging the games to make it end how they want it to end

Each one of those players know, when they step on the field there is a chance of being injured… whether it’s a tackled that’s slipped high or if it’s just a high shot, they have signed a waiver…. The bunker has no place within the general flow of the game.

I enjoyed the game yesterday

It started way back when the refs/bunker started for no real reason penalizing a big strong forward like NAS from the Storm, for just about anything in every game. Every week the refs/bunker were in the game. The writing was on the wall in rd24 when rooter JWH rough house NAS and the result was the rooters had 3 on report and 1 sin bin...

Gal is spot on! Bunker only used for tries makes sense,otherwise guys will refuse to play the ball & ruin the game. It wasnt that long ago when you could........😂

Ashley klien changes the outcome of matches. Nrl. SOO. And international. The only reason I dont complain is because he gave the kiwis the rlwc in 08

I agree with Gus that they should get rid of the bunker

Souths vs Easts battle for the pride cup with Hand bags at 50 paces

I want that $100 Gus

I could listen to Gus all day. He’s the Geoff Boycott of the NRL world for knowing his sport inside out.

GUS IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT 👍

If gus was still at the roosters, I wonder how he would control jwh , Radley and co

That was a great game of AFL, oh sorry they hit harder 😂😂😂 the NRL is dead

Why can’t all professional players sign a waver saying they can never sue for any future concussion issues?

Rabbitohs will always own roosters in Alianz stadium. Up the Bunnies.

Somebody needs to pull some old footage of Gus complaining about refs bad calls on field costing teams games. The bunker pretty much came about because of TV personalities slamming the refs live on tv

Thanks Gus one of the only X players calling this BS out on TV and calling it out for years. I played park footy for 30 years, loved the game but can't watch it anymore, unless state of origin or finals. Actually watched a big game a couple of weeks ago and it went for an extra 40 mins due to stoppages. How much is media advertising making on this extra screen time and what is their input into decisions about rules behind closed doors. As for most of the other X player commentators ya hear crickets as they collect their rubys and help turn this once honorable game into Ruby League

I 100% agree

Bunker rules on in goal only and they put another ref back on the field. Was never a fan when they used to but it was a hell of alot better than watching the ref and bunker make it all about them. Klein has always been a dubious ref made some real howlers this season...

New rule... If you don't get straight up and play the ball, you go off the field for a medical assessment... End of milking.

You know what the most embarrassing thing to the sport is? Gus, Johns and the entire commentary panel. All they do is whine and bicker. There were instances where the commentator didn't say a word for 15-20 seconds. American sports anchors would think this production is pathetic

The guy who reffed friday nights game was better he let a lot slide

Gus n Gallen should go out there and ref

The attacking players will look to play the ref. They know any high shot will be a pen if they stay down it will be a sin bin. Attacking players will make sure to drop there bodies if they know they will be tackle chest high. Means the player tackling hand will go over the ball an onto there head. They stay down bunker looks at it in slow mo ( witch makes things look far worse ) tells the ref its on report an sin bin. The NRL along with the SL have done this. The refs are following the rules. RL is now like football. Players playacting to get a man yellow carded

Gus should be boss of bunker

The league is very happy to take the money from the gambling on league. Thats why they have to be so careful about rulings there`s money on the results.

NRL has become shyt to watch. The finals have now become farcical. Might as well have no ref on the field and ref from the bunker using loud speaker. Start watching Union now, of AFL

And this is why I stopped going to games years ago and stopped spending a cent on league . The most they get is an occasional watch on Tv if I happen to fall right in front of it .

There is nothing in the game of rugby league that looks worse then when someone is playing for a penalty , laying down like a dog it's not a good look .

What was the ref supposed to do about 3 head highs in a row in constant sets

Game of the year lol 🤣🤣🤣 to club's wanted to win you do what you have to do boys