Mr. 36.8%

[The Real King]

Dolphins v Roosters: Referee: Gerard Sutton
How will Mr.36.8% try to screw us over today?

There is no doubt we will be down a man for at least 10 minutes.
No Jarrod, so not sure, maybe Rads in the bin. Bin for repeat infringements on our line almost a certainty.
OK Jerry we know it will be 45 six-agains and 50 penalties against us, but we can still beat you!

Team	Referee you want	Referee you don't want
Sydney Roosters	Grant Atkins 70%	Gerard Sutton 36.8%

[Archelon]

Watch the hidden agenda in full swing in trying to get Dolphins to win in front of the Perth crowd to pump up the excitement for the new expansion team..

NRL: “Sutton.. You know what to do..”

[Thirteen]

Excuses before a ball is even kicked. What a disgrace.

[Qld Chook]

That's a pretty tragic stat. Any idea what the sample size of games is?

[Headless Chook]

That's a pretty tragic stat. Any idea what the sample size of games is?

Stats can be deceiving without knowing whats behind them. I'm guessing we have had him in a lot of games against Melbourne and Penrith in recent seasons.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

IMO humble opinion when a team's win/loss ratio under a particular ref is more than 10% to 15% max off under a particular official compared to their normal win/loss you have to start questioning WTF is going on?
For example under Robbo I think our win rate is about 67%. So it's not surprising that under Atkins our record is about 70%. But the fact that under Sutton it sits at 36% is alarming. If under Sutton we were at 50% to 55% I'd say okay, but 36% compared to 67% odd is a big difference when looking purely at the numbers.

[Mickie Lane]

Ohhh no hear we go.
The refs & bunker are going to make sure we don’t win.
Why do you people watch/follow the NRL?

[Ron Burgundy]

The 36.3% comes from a Daily Telegraph article which only looks at the last 4 years of results. Too small of a sample to be meaningful and probably heavily skewed by the quality of opposition. For all games under both refs we have won 55% under Sutton vs 58% under Atkins with the difference probably explained by the quality of opposition with Sutton being the higher ranked ref.

[Spirit of 66]

I can't watch games officiated by Klein or Sutton. I just can't escape the feeling that they are orchestrating the match not refereeing it.

[HunchoRooster]

To those holier than thou's talking about "whinging"

a ) Why post on the thread?
b) Identify where the OP has stated we won't win or gives an excuse for not winning.

Stats are stats. We will be up against as usual.

[Ron Burgundy]

To those holier than thou's talking about "whinging"

a ) Why post on the thread?
b) Identify where the OP has stated we won't win or gives an excuse for not winning.

Stats are stats. We will be up against as usual.

a) to provide some balance
b) did you read the OP? It suggests there will be 50 penalties against us amongst other hysterical rantings.

[Renman]

There is little doubt the we seem to continually get Rogered by the refs. There can only be two reasons for this. Either we keep stuffing up and are incompetent and our coaching staff have been oblivious to fixing such a huge issue or, the game, and by that I mean the NRL, have agendas that supersede proper impartial refereeing.
I was watching Fox last night and they had a promo for Women in League. One of the faces was Belinda Sharp who referred to herself as a game manager. Surely there must be outcry for this.
We don't want f''''going game managers we want refs. I would love to see a T-shirt that says, Sack the Game Managers and hire some refs.

[eddie]

None of the game managers give us a fair go, haven't for years.
For once the stats back me up.

[Archelon]

To those holier than thou's talking about "whinging"

a ) Why post on the thread?
b) Identify where the OP has stated we won't win or gives an excuse for not winning.

Stats are stats. We will be up against as usual.

Shhhh.. let these people live in their glass houses. I’m sure they never complain or make any excuses about anything.

[Thirteen]

Shhhh.. let these people live in their glass houses. I’m sure they never complain or make any excuses about anything.

Cry me a river. The refs hate us boo hoo.