Season set up for the Dragons . ****ing Farce

[elo]

Well they did have :

beau scott
d boyd
b morris
costigan
creagh

all play for nsw so they did have rep commitments aswell.

We got ripped off on the day of the GF, but we shouldnt make excuses.
Next year baby!!!!!!!

I don't think it's about excuses eleroy.....I just wanted to see how the game would have played out with competent refereeing....the Dragons go into half-time on duck egg chasing 2 to 3 tries with that - they are then in a position that they haven't won from the entire season. (largest comeback 6 points)

Did we deserve to win based on the second half performance, ofcourse not - but we didn't deserve to go into half-time only 2 points up, ofcourse not either.

[Cockadoodledoo]

I don't think it's about excuses eleroy.....I just wanted to see how the game would have played out with competent refereeing....the Dragons go into half-time on duck egg chasing 2 to 3 tries with that - they are then in a position that they haven't won from the entire season. (largest comeback 6 points)

Did we deserve to win based on the second half performance, ofcourse not - but we didn't deserve to go into half-time only 2 points up, ofcourse not either.

Our second half performance was that of a team trying to play catch up football in the pouring rain. Which we should not have been doing...

[Guest]

The point to be made is that we can all go round and round in circles. All clubs can argue about the ifs and buts of the season. We got hard done by at certin stages of the match.

2 points or 10 points, we were in front and got dusted. Past is past, and dwelling on that game is pointless. All this shit about being robbed is pathetic. I would much rather look at the positives from a great year.

[Guest]

The point to be made is that we can all go round and round in circles.
I would much rather look at the positives from a great year.

OK, you are spot on about looking at the positives from the season of which there were many. And how great the team was turned around from 2009 and the future looks positive. No risk, these are valid points to be happy about.

I made the point earlier of how the Merge mob were always banging on about 99 and how they got "done". I think its kinda like that for some of us. The way we were reffed didnt give us a level playing field. We may still have gone down.

So for that reason the 2010 will be an infamous GF with a dodgy result. Not a conspiracy or bent, just stupid decisions at crucial times.

And yeah, there is a point we need to move on. I dont plan on stewing on it or feeling bitter, but I wont be forgetting it for the inept performance of certain individuals.

Maybe this thread help some of us let out our frustrations and helped us get over it. Well thats what I reckon, I found it helpful to rant and I feel better about the whole thing & have put it behind me.

[Guest]

OK, you are spot on about looking at the positives from the season of which there were many. And how great the team was turned around from 2009 and the future looks positive. No risk, these are valid points to be happy about.

I made the point earlier of how the Merge mob were always banging on about 99 and how they got "done". I think its kinda like that for some of us. The way we were reffed didnt give us a level playing field. We may still have gone down.

So for that reason the 2010 will be an infamous GF with a dodgy result. Not a conspiracy or bent, just stupid decisions at crucial times.

And yeah, there is a point we need to move on. I dont plan on stewing on it or feeling bitter, but I wont be forgetting it for the inept performance of certain individuals.

Maybe this thread help some of us let out our frustrations and helped us get over it. Well thats what I reckon, I found it helpful to rant and I feel better about the whole thing & have put it behind me.

All this thread did was show some up as whinging losers. ALL clubs get dudded through out the year, yet when we ar on the good end of decisions, nothing is said.

[Guest]

All this thread did was show some up as whinging losers. ALL clubs get dudded through out the year, yet when we ar on the good end of decisions, nothing is said.

Maybe, and I guess it's your choice to see us as sore losers. Well I know I didnt say it here, but I never though the Perrett "sitting on the ball" try was a try. But the game was way beyond reach and that was a call that went our way.

Whatever, we might just have to agree we see things differently.

Cheers.

[Guest]

All this thread did was show some up as whinging losers. ALL clubs get dudded through out the year, yet when we ar on the good end of decisions, nothing is said.

Fair dinkum, i have read this thread over many days

Did we lose the GF - Yes

Am i over it - not quite


You bring up many good points, but for some reason you cannot differentiate between being dudded in a regular season game and a Grand Final, massive differance and 10 times harder to get over, you also fail to see that these calls were not 50/50 calls( which as hard as it is) i can accept but blatant errors made by apparantly the best officials in the business against the best team in the business.

To suggest the merge only deserved to concede 1 penalty in 75 minutes when for 40 mins they were dominated by us is also ludicris.

They were not a 24 point better side than us on the day

Deliberately cheating may be far fetched but being absolutely farked over in the biggest game of the year by attrocious decisionsthat definately cost us the game is a fact.

[Guest]

attrocious decisionsthat definately cost us the game is a fact.

We may have ended up losing. There is no doubt or 2nd 40 was bad, in fact we needed to seal the game in the first half with all that possession. And the Mergre should have been zip at half time, no doubt about it.

I suppose what is pissing some off is that because of dud decisions, the Merge were nicely invited into a competitive position and what impact did that have on a young side ?

[Guest]

Fair dinkum, i have read this thread over many days

Did we lose the GF - Yes

Am i over it - not quite


You bring up many good points, but for some reason you cannot differentiate between being dudded in a regular season game and a Grand Final, massive differance and 10 times harder to get over, you also fail to see that these calls were not 50/50 calls( which as hard as it is) i can accept but blatant errors made by apparantly the best officials in the business against the best team in the business.

To suggest the merge only deserved to concede 1 penalty in 75 minutes when for 40 mins they were dominated by us is also ludicris.

They were not a 24 point better side than us on the day

Deliberately cheating may be far fetched but being absolutely farked over in the biggest game of the year by attrocious decisionsthat definately cost us the game is a fact.

Pearcy. Always love your comments, and agree with most you say. My problem lies in the fact that we have been good enough all year to beat the opposition, and the dirty refs. I have not for 1 minute thought the merge were flawless in the penalty count. The cards on the day didn't fall our way.

Deliberately cheating is far fetched, and embaresses me. We didn't lose the game from decisions made. All dodgy decisions made, were in the first half (Youngs try was BOTD), and until this stupid rule is changed, we havn't got a leg to stand on. We were ahead at half time. You can come up with all the stats you and you chookpen mates want,, but to me a half time lead is a half time lead.

24 point beter side? NO. Last time I looked 1 point was good enough, and yes they were 1 point better than us.

[elo]

Pearcy. Always love your comments, and agree with most you say. My problem lies in the fact that we have been good enough all year to beat the opposition, and the dirty refs. I have not for 1 minute thought the merge were flawless in the penalty count. The cards on the day didn't fall our way.

Deliberately cheating is far fetched, and embaresses me. We didn't lose the game from decisions made. All dodgy decisions made, were in the first half (Youngs try was BOTD), and until this stupid rule is changed, we havn't got a leg to stand on. We were ahead at half time. You can come up with all the stats you and you chookpen mates want,, but to me a half time lead is a half time lead.

24 point beter side? NO. Last time I looked 1 point was good enough, and yes they were 1 point better than us.

OK, now you are just trolling.....Perrett blatantly pushed in the back and ball out off of Morris' head yet we are forced to line dropout was dodgy. The Young try wasn't just dodgy it was a disgraceful decision, Warren Smith summed that one up well. There was also Mini tackled without the ball in the second half but that's probably a 50/50 decision.....which we were never going to get.

[Guest]

Apart from the disgraceful calls, and when you have Warren Smith questioning the calls against the roosters you know something is wrong, but can someone please explain why the half-time break was 25-30mins?

The dragons were gone at HT. They needed a big break (and rain) to get back into it. I thought the HT break is 10mins

[Guest]

My problem lies in the fact that we have been good enough all year to beat the opposition, and the dirty refs.

Not true. We were dudded in a big way against the Warriors. We were good enough to overcome some dodgy decisions against the Bulldogs and the Broncos but only in the last few minutes. It could have very easily gone the other way.

With the closeness of the NRL, it is silly to suggestion that a poor decision will not affect the results of a game or a competition. Let alone the number of poor decisions in the grand final (see my signature of what the Foxtel commentators thought about the game).

At 12-nil or 14-nil halftime it is a completely different ball game with Saints being the ones to take all the risks with the slippery ball.

[Guest]

Apart from the disgraceful calls, and when you have Warren Smith questioning the calls against the roosters you know something is wrong, but can someone please explain why the half-time break was 25-30mins?

The dragons were gone at HT. They needed a big break (and rain) to get back into it. I thought the HT break is 10mins

Is that really true about the half time break. I was such a nervous wreck at that point that I did not notice. If it is true that is an absolute disgrace.

[Johnny Tobin]

Is that really true about the half time break. I was such a nervous wreck at that point that I did not notice. If it is true that is an absolute disgrace.

It is true.

The whole thing was set up for them.

We were never going to be allowed to win it.

[Guest]

It is true.

The whole thing was set up for them.

We were never going to be allowed to win it.

Fark. That is really bad. I didn't realize that. That extra time must have contributed to the momentum swing.