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  Mo September 9, 2015 at 12:48am

  Honestly if a ref makes a mistake every so often but is consistent i'm happy, but inconsistency is not acceptable. Like i said though human error every so often is fair enough if the systems are less robotic. Too bad they use more technology and make more errors lol.
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  sixtiesboy September 9, 2015 at 1:01am

  The statistics indicate that range of referees take issue with our game. As I stated, it's worth investigating what we can do to address it.
  My biased eye still sees our stupid penalties, which for mine are the marker being caught offside or a blatant strip. But apart from those, I've seen real head scratching decisions going against us. Perhaps there is a pattern of penalty types that can be detected and rectified.
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    Sir Col "THE NODDY MUSHROOM" > sixtiesboy September 13, 2015 at 6:33pm

    60s - if you want to see some "real head scratchers" just replay this weekends Finals series games.

    3rd rate refereeing at its worst in ALL games.

    Gavin Badger was by far the BEST referee over the weekend and he did pull 3 doozies that I can recall, surprisingly (NOT) all in favour of the Bronx.
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  Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown September 9, 2015 at 2:08am

  60s theres no doubt that we have shown plenty of poor discipline over the season, lazy silly penalties, even blokes like gower who was outstanding last year and up until he had the compound fracture in the finger this year had a poor second half of the season, his discipline was not up to scratch.

  Now combine that with the same sort of stuff from Moeroa, Pauli, Choc gave plenty away same with junior and Lussick, Kelly, Norman they all give plenty of penalties away and BA needs to get it out of their game.

  We received plenty of poor calls from the refs this year but imo thats no excuse for our poor discipline.

  Ive got a theory that plenty of it is a knock on effect from lacking confidence as a team,  imo confidence is the key to good synergy on the park, Foz will bring plenty of that.

  Nice blog mate and thanks for the stats 40/20
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    Robisms > Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown September 9, 2015 at 1:08pm

    I reckon it's ref prejudice against Parramatta actually, much more than ill discipline from our boys. I justify this by noting that other teams perform the same indiscretions as us but don't get penalised for them, for example, our line speed was outstanding on many occasions and we get penalised for offside, but other teams ARE offside and they DON'T get penalised. So I say this screams of viewer bias or prejudice.
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    FME September 9, 2015 at 6:48am

    But that's a tactic they use to slow the play down. Whenever they are in trouble they purposely give away a penalty, to bring play and momentum to a stop, and back their defence to hold you out. Why wouldn't you back your own defence when you have a team choc full of internationals.
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    Rise of an empire September 9, 2015 at 7:01am

    I remember before we played the chooks & I was thinking at least we should win a penalty count today, because of there bad track record, but sure enough from memory we supposedly were the ill disciplined team & they were angels for a change.
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  FME September 9, 2015 at 6:45am

  We have had a number of different coaches over the years who have tried to address this problem. They worked with the refs and consulted with the NRL on how to better stay within the rules, and they did exactly what the refs told them to, but the same stat pops up for the eels year after year. We've also had a number of different players over the years so it cant be the same old offenders every week of every year.  So is it the coaches, players or referees that are the problem here? Surly out of all the coaches we've had at least one of them would have been able to fix this problem so that being said I say the refs are the problem.
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    sixtiesboy September 9, 2015 at 7:45am

    The penalty count in that match was one of the worst against us, 10 to 5. It included very significant calls, including a Roosters penalty for a lost possession on half way, which was a lost possession not a strip. It brought the play into the Parra quarter for the JWH try.
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  Rise of an empire September 9, 2015 at 7:15am

  Correct me if I am wrong Sixties, but in pre season training blogs I thought I remembered you saying we had refs at training., so we could work on rule interpretations, that didn't seem to help, were giving them a hard time at training or something or did they just get a good look at how we were going to try to take an advantage through some type of deception. I don't this has baffled me all year & I have gone through all sorts of conspiracy theories this season. One of my theories is maybe Daniel Anderson has seemed to upset a lot of people over the years, maybe when he was referee's boss he just pissed them all off so much