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The New Zealand Warriors<\/a> have pitched the NRL<\/a> on a shake-up of shot-clock protocols in the wake of Saturday night’s farcical finish at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n A vanishing clock turned a tense finale to the Warriors vs Sharks matchup into a full-blown headache for officials and the fans.<\/p>\n The LED screen blunder, in which the goal-line dropout shot clock vanished from view at the worst possible moment.<\/p>\n Although they have admitted to making the mistake on their end, the Warriors have suggested fixes to this issue.<\/p>\n The Daily Telegraph has reported that the Warriors’ solutions for this issue included:<\/p>\n Sounding an audible 10-second warning at the venue With no prompt from the bunker to confirm the correct time remaining, the referee for the game, Gerard Sutton, was left making an educated guess.<\/p>\n
\nMirroring the bell already used to flag set restarts
\nThe referee steps in to count down the closing seconds out loud whenever the clock itself goes dark.\u00a0<\/p>\n