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  sixtiesboy July 16, 2015 at 8:51am

  This still doesn't tell the full story. The timing of the penalties is also significant. Late tackle count penalties, piggy back penalties to get a team downfield, consecutive penalties to a team to dominate possession or maintain a roll-on - all assist a team. Penalties when a match is over, a penalty with a few seconds left in the half. A first tackle penalty when a team is already attacking in the quarter.- none of these are any benefit yet they appear as a penalty received. I have an issue with how we fare in regard to these aspects.
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    Trini Lopez calling Go Go Gomez > sixtiesboy July 16, 2015 at 1:27pm

    Spot on, sixties.

    The make-up penalty regime is a real blight on the game, imo.  It does nothing other than give a false impression of proceedings in a match.

    If the teams have been refereed unbiasedly, the refs. shouldn’t give a toss about penalty counts.  If a 20-2 count is an honest one, then so be it.
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  Tin Tim July 16, 2015 at 9:52am

  This has contributed to our close losses. I guess it's not always the coaches & players fault dumb decision by refs have cost us in the past. So a game like the Tigers where dodgy decision went against the oppositions meant nothing. It happens!!
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  BiG G July 16, 2015 at 10:17am

  All you can do is laugh.
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    Gower Power > BiG G July 16, 2015 at 9:12pm

    or cry
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  Last place July 16, 2015 at 10:28am

  Rubbish stat
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  Kerry George July 16, 2015 at 12:07pm

  It was worse when Bill (I hate Parra) Harrigan was reffing us
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  Sticks and Stones July 16, 2015 at 12:29pm

  Richest team in the comp, unlimited salary cap and the media still wants us to feel sorry for them all the time.
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  Tentonz July 16, 2015 at 4:14pm

  Maybe a better scale would be "how many metres were gained" and "which tackle did the penalty occur on". That would probably give all the information needed to know how critical the penalty was.