From what I have seen all the refs calls are favouring Raiders this year including twice against storm in Melbourne - and us in Canberra.
Has NRL decided it is their year?
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Here we go again
Probably
Of course not.
Feck, all year it’s ‘the NRL and their favouritism towards the Storm’ always getting the rub of the green, Greenberg and his ‘plus one’ Cam Smith etc.
If Melbourne had won, it would have confirmed some nutburger corruption theory, they lose and it’s confirms some other theory.
What really happened is the Raiders showed us how to match it with Melbourne.
Every Raiders game I watch they get all the bad decisions there way.
I hate the storm and don’t think I am biased but I think the storm got hard done by in both the games I have seen them play Raiders and some for other teams who play araiders
OK let me explain this to you, real slowly, and as simply as possible.
The NRL knows the jig is up re their bias towards the Storm to keep rugby league alive in a territory where no one gives a fuck about rugby league and “fans” don’t come to games when they lose.
So the word is, internally, cool it with the scale tipping calls because the fans are onto us and they’ll burn down their fucking stadiums if they can confirm it.
The Storm’s benchmark winning reputation is intact. They don’t need a premiership this year to remain popular to their fair weather fans. In fact, the NRL wouldn’t want a Storm win this year after the Cam Smith wife ring debacle and basketball game tickets shit.
The NRL wants Canberra to do well this year because it’s a great story and good for the game, the return of the green machine!
After reading the eels broncos sold out in record time I think the NRL would FINALLY like to see the Eels go deep into the finals, if not win the GF
Expect ref calls to be pretty even tomorrow.
It is just incompetence from the refs not a conspiracy. However I think their may be a level of unconscious bias towards favourites and teams performing better or even the team with momentum in the game. It isn't related to the NRL but is a natural reaction similar to the unconscious bias fans show when they only see bad decisions against their team.