This is dedicated to some Parra fans who said they felt guilty when 1 or 2 calls went against the Warriors a few weeks ago. Those calls didn't define the outcome of the game though. Parra had some bad calls too which cost us points. The reffing against the Broncos cost us the game.
The Monday Bunker crew have ripped into the referees after yet another stuff-up threatens to rob a team of their season.
Brisbane’s match-winning field goal against Parramatta appeared to clearly show Darius Boyd taking out Clint Gutherson as Brisbane snuck home with a 17-16 victory.
“It’s terrible. It’s game-defining. A top four opportunity for the Eels has evaporated because the referee didn’t blow his penalty,” said The Daily Telegraph’s Paul Crawley.
“It was a deadest penalty, when it happened I couldn’t believe the commentators didn’t blow up about it, it was so obvious!”
“Once again, they’ve forgotten what the rules are!”
Jamayne Isaako’s field goal wasn’t the only play to earn Crawley’s ire with a questionable decision to deny a try to Blake Ferguson due to a forward pass from Gutherson also copping some heat.
“It’s just wrong that they don’t do anything, and the Eels cop some rotten calls,” Crawley said.
“That no-try for Blake Ferguson, the rules says you have to pass backwards – but it doesn’t say the ball has to travel backwards.
“That could have been one of the great tries of the season. It’s a shocking call.”
The Courier-Mail’s Mike Colman could at least see the lighter side of things, but claimed rules seems to be forgotten during golden point.
“Everyone’s been waiting for Darius Boyd to do something this season and he finally has,” Colman said.
“It’s a problem – not just up here but it’s a problem whenever a game goes to golden point, because the whistle goes in the back pocket.
“Otherwise you’re going to get it going for 20 minutes cause nobody can kick a field goal, apart from Aidan Sezer.
“The offside rules seems to be completely forgotten in golden point”
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Would have been nice for Brad to man up and have a say in the presser about it.
We are easy targets.
I can understand that Parra don't want to officially have a go at the refs but they can use a conduit (i.e an ex-player) that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty and throw some mud where necessary and appropriate.
How knows, maybe someone from Parra had a chat with Crawls and said "go out and bat for us mate and we can hand you the odd tip here and there."
Brilliant!!!
BA never gives the media much at all. It's clear he doesnt want journos following up with questions over the next few days because its a distraction. This can be good sometimes but also means that other people in the media or ex players or whoever arent talking about the unfair calls that went against us either and we tend to become easy targets.
All it will cost is $10k and nothing gets done about it Snake, that's probably why Brad Arthur doesn't bother! A waste of breath! Nobody listens!
I posted this exact point after the game. We seem to just sit and cop it sweet, week after week.
EE, early in BA's time as coach here he made a few comments regarding the refs, not bad enough to be finned but all that appeared to happen was more decisions against the eels. Only thing I can say is that since Aniseed has been in charge there has been a bit more of taking notice, note BIT If the NRL want to be fair dinkum about bad and incorrect decisions along with missing/ignoring.wrong calls that affect the game as to their win or lose a game then they should have the points and win given to that team, given we see an admission of 3 dudded events, then there's no doubt we should have the 2 points awarded.
It seems from the report that BA did actually meet and dsicuss the issues from the weekend and that is a good thing!
The ref didn't miss that they just throught fuck it it only Parramatta loseing
The good thing is that warriors game proves we aren't imagining it. When we got a few calls and it genuinely felt weird.
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