I thought the refereeing was fair to both sides. Players from both sides were allowed to get away with a fair bit and the game flowed better because of it - moreso in the first half, though. I wish they would ref more like this in the normal comp and stop pinging players for every silly little nothing indiscretion and let the games flow.
I'm over the stop/start nature of today's game and players getting penalised for tackling too hard or because they put a finger near a players head, take half a second too long to get up from the tackle or something equally lame - it's a contact sport for goodness sake! If it's good enough to ignore these things and let the game flow in Origin, then it should be good enough for every NRL game.
I agree… Both teams received silly calls and then at other times no joy.
The word Consistency is what I want to see.
Happy to let both teams sort it out. But if one dominates, these muppets try to keep the close
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Consistantly seeing 50/50 calls to the Marroons is what you want to see. So far, so good.