Leading NRL journalist Ben Dobbin and rugby league great Gorden Tallis have called for referees and the NRL to crack down on players back chatting with match officials.
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The pair both argued the game is seeing too many incidents where players other than the captain are arguing with referees, with Tallis suggesting it’s also a tactic to slow down the game.
“All they’ve got to do is use the sin bin and get them off, I don’t like the slowing down tactic,” Tallis said on Triple M’s Saturday Scrum.
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