{"id":568925,"date":"2026-05-06T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:32:15","slug":"sam-burgess-becomes-latest-super-league-coach-to-call-for-change-after-tough-to-watch-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568925\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess becomes latest Super League coach to call for change after \u2018tough to watch\u2019 game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AM2_1114.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"Warrington Wolves\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sam Burgess has become the latest Super League coach to call for changes in the process of officiating games after Warrington Wolves\u2019 win over Huddersfield Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday evening saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-head-coach-talks-ewan-irwin-challenge-cup-ban-concern-and-more-huddersfield-giants-v-warrington-wolves-talking-points-114870\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warrington win 34-4 against the Giants<\/a> in a game that seemed to drag on forever with the second-half viewed by many as an extremely poor showing of Super League, not just down to what the players did but also the elongated captain\u2019s challenge and video referee processes.<\/p>\n<p>Wire led 28-0 at half-time with the match effectively over and that only served to add to how futile the second-half was with commentator Mark Wilson taking to social media to label it the \u2018worst half of Super League ever\u2019, and he probably wasn\u2019t far wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Post-match on Sky Sports, Burgess would joke and ask where he could get his money back for the second-half and it\u2019s something he spoke about in his post-match presser, shared to the Warrington Wolves\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VTRc_joce80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you want to start?\u201d he responded when asked about the second-half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the game, it was so long. So long. Like, what are we doing?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a neutral and you turn that game on, you turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have a look at, if we all care about the game being better, it needs to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burgess made it clear that he wasn\u2019t taking aim at anyone in particular, adding:\u201dI\u2019m not having a shot at anyone. It\u2019s just the way I feel. It think, yeah, it was tough. It was tough to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only 24 hours before, Leeds Rhinos had defeated Wakefield Trinity in a game that Brad Arthur had described as the \u2018longest game in history\u2019 with that match seeing an injury delay, three sin bins and multiple video reviews which meant it took over two hours to complete.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768126635_668_srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess has become the latest Super League coach to call for changes in the process of officiating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}