{"id":625072,"date":"2026-06-06T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625072\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:44:08","slug":"daryl-powell-wakefield-trinity-boss-says-captains-challenge-must-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625072\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Powell: Wakefield Trinity boss says captain’s challenge must be abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain’s challenge was introduced to Super League games for 2025<\/a> and allows teams to contest a referee’s decision at a stoppage in play. Teams are allowed one unsuccessful challenge per game.<\/p>\n

The system was first introduced in Australia’s National Rugby League in 2020 with the aim of reducing the impact of an incorrect refereeing decision on the outcome of a match.<\/p>\n

During Saturday’s fixture, however, some incidents needed lengthy assessment on review.<\/p>\n

Peta Hiku thought he had grounded the ball for a late Hull KR try which would have won his side the game, only to have his effort chalked off after a lengthy review by Rush which painstakingly assessed multiple angles.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Robins used their captain’s challenge late on to assess a high tackle, something which Powell said was a tactical decision.<\/p>\n

“I can’t tell you how many times he looked at that Hiku one,” Powell added.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen anybody look at an incident so much in my life and it was obvious from the second [angle]. <\/p>\n

“You’ve got fans slow handclapping now. That is not what we want.<\/p>\n

“The beauty of this game is the flow and the energy and the intensity of it. Hull KR went for a captain’s challenge on an obvious high tackle at the end to give themselves a breather to defend that final four minutes. Well, it’s an obvious high tackle.<\/p>\n

“If you add up the time taken from captain’s challenges today what would it be? Maybe 15 minutes? <\/p>\n

“It’s not good for the sport, everybody is saying it. Get rid of it. If it doesn’t happen now it has to happen for next season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain’s challenge was introduced to Super League games for 2025 and allows teams to contest a referee’s decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625072","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\/625072","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=625072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}