![\"Jack](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784000662_800_b176abb594c2fa0d0004108290af26bfc5a9c3aaf7b80318a34936e14bd2ff1e.jpeg\")
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Jack Bostock touches the ball in the air.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n
Replays showed Jack Bostock appeared to knock the ball on in the lead-up to the try, but the Bunker ruled it a four-pointer.<\/p>\n
Post-match Smith argued the Bunker should be \u201cflicked\u201d<\/a> if it can\u2019t get slow-motion replays right, especially at a reported cost of $2-3 million per season.<\/p>\n He explained on 100% Footy<\/a>, the funds used for the bunker should be diverted elsewhere, and the game should revert to one video referee like the old days.<\/p>\n The NRL<\/a> introduced the video referee in 1998 following the success of it in the Super League the year before. However, it was replaced by the Bunker<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s reinvest that back into junior rugby league or money out in the bush and take it back to the old days when the video ref, not the Bunker, the video ref, sat in a little room, looked at a screen next to the commentary box and made decisions,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n Gallen agreed the decision last week by the Bunker was incorrect, yet argued completely scrapping video technology is unrealistic and pointed out instances where Queensland had directly benefited from mistakes in officiating in the past.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember a time back in 2012 where Greg Inglis dropped the ball over the try line and it was given a try to decide the match,\u201d Gallen said on 100% Footy.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then I remember a decider, where Justin Hodges scored a try off a shepherd, and they beat us by one point. Not 18 like Queensland were beaten by (last week).<\/p>\n \u201cSo what goes around, comes around, get that up you Queensland, we won.\u201d<\/p>\n Pre-2016, the video referee used to sit alone in a box at the game, but fan backlash over officiating and inconsistency led to the shift after the 2015 season.<\/p>\n The next year the NRL centralised the operation from one location away from the ground, giving officials access to simultaneous views of multiple camera angles and a dedicated fibre network directly connected to every NRL stadium.<\/p>\n The move also gave fans clear explanations on decisions made in the game.<\/p>\n Gallen disagreed with axing the Bunker in favour of one official.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t get rid of it because these days everything is on the phone. As soon as the game finishes, every single replay\u2019s on the phone right there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s too accessible for people these days.<\/p>\n \u201cSo they need a bunker there to get the majority of the decisions right. While we have human beings involved, there\u2019ll always be some sort of human error, which there was the other night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was almost a week ago, and they\u2019re still going on about it. The controversy over Bradman Best\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-798913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}