LIVE GAME Round 26 v Raiders

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Rubbish take.

We were clearly winning contact in this match until the point where we just couldn't withstand the dogshit run we were getting with the refs.

This was clear on the eye test and was supported by statistics - first half post contact metres, run metres, distance per set set, tackle busts, all well, well in our favour. We were getting numbers in tackles and swamping the.. When attacking Raiders line their edge defence was clearly up to early. Yet despite all this, we somehow ended up losing set restarts 4-1 in that half.

You can be sanctimonious all you like. However, refs are human and subjective biases are enormous in all elements of life. It is pretty foolish to discount that refs wouldn't be impacted in the small margins we are taking about when it comes to PTB speed.
100% that was rubbish. He can big note all he likes about his superior knowledge of the intricacies of the game and exactly how the ruck is refereed, even though there's nothing in writing about it, like in a rule book. Can he explain why rules that are in a rule book, like a forward pass that every fool can detect, are not enforced? Or why some rules, like a "roll ball" only enforced very occasionally?
 
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