The story of the last two years with the refs....

[Guest]

was just summed up there with the video ref giving a try when it was a blatant knock on.

And yet people say that we are favoured by the NRL. LOL

[Guest]

It was identical to one of the tries Harrigan awarded in the grand final (see sig). Under current Bill Harrigan interpretation of the rules it was a fair try.

[Spirit of 66]

You want the story? Here is the story:

In the last 6 years, Cronulla have been given a total of 139 MORE penalties than their opposition. The Roosters have received 157 penalties LESS than their opposition.

That means that there is a 296 penalty difference between the Sharks' treatment and that of the Roosters' - an average of 50 per season.

[Chook Norris]

under the current rules it's a fair try

it's equal for everyone.

[Johnny Tobin]

It's not a fair try at all. It was a knock on.

Not that it made any difference.

[Juggler]

under the current rules it's a fair try

it's equal for everyone.

What current rule? It has NEVER been in the rules. The decision was either incompetence or Clark had a big bet on Sharks 13+. But its nothing new. The video refs as a group are ****ed. Sack the lot of them. My 10 month old son could get more decisions right than some of them by randomly hitting one of three buttons. Harrigan won't admit he was wrong either. There is NO ****ing doubt. If you knock the ball towards your opponents dead ball line from the hand or arm and dont regain it before it touches the ground or any other player, it is a knock on.

[TheLoneRooster]

I knew when "double steamer" knocked on that ball that the guppies would score in the same set and sure enough that is exactly what happened. This try and the last one were both suspect and had they been scored in identical circumstances by the Roosters, both tries would have been disallowed.

Don't know how much more of this I can take knowing the Roosters will continue to get shafted.

[BUDDY]

What current rule? It has NEVER been in the rules. The decision was either incompetence or Clark had a big bet on Sharks 13+. But its nothing new. The video refs as a group are ****ed. Sack the lot of them. My 10 month old son could get more decisions right than some of them by randomly hitting one of three buttons. Harrigan won't admit he was wrong either. There is NO ****ing doubt. If you knock the ball towards your opponents dead ball line from the hand or arm and dont regain it before it touches the ground or any other player, it is a knock on.

According to Gus they shouldn't have taken that try away from them because they deserved to put the game away even though he admitted there was a small knock on. Same as the strip from Pearce. If Gus said he lost the ball even though it was stripped, then he lost the ball.

[Juggler]

According to Gus they shouldn't have taken that try away from them because they deserved to put the game away even though he admitted there was a small knock on. Same as the strip from Pearce. If Gus said he lost the ball even though it was stripped, then he lost the ball.

Gus talks shit a lot of the time. None of the Channel Nine commentators have any tendency to understand the rules. None. A strip is different because the defender has caused the ball to come loose.

And while we're at it, get the ****ing vidiot refs 3D tvs as well. Will that be Harrigan's next excuse?

[Rooster_Luke]

absolute joke!! it didnt change the result but this stuff continues to happen to us and one day it will cost us an important game (probably to get the wooden spoon) how in the bloody hell was that not a knock on... and to make matters worse the coward awards it as 'benefit of the doubt' he is dreaming!!!!!!!!

[Chook Norris]

you guys make it out like bad decisions don't go against other sides?

[BUDDY]

absolute joke!! it didnt change the result but this stuff continues to happen to us and one day it will cost us an important game (probably to get the wooden spoon) how in the bloody hell was that not a knock on... and to make matters worse the coward awards it as 'benefit of the doubt' he is dreaming!!!!!!!!

I actually thought the Tupou knock-on was the turning point. Of course they were going to score off that set. We would have been one try behind. OK we didn't score but it makes a big difference trying to make up two tries than one.

I'm sure it came off the back of that dumb penalty Friend gave away which didn't help.

[Juggler]

you guys make it out like bad decisions don't go against other sides?

They do. I don't have a problem with mistakes unless they are the result of incompetence - the last video ref decision for example. There have been other shockers in games involving other teams. The penny pinching of the NRL means there is no pool of video refs or that they dont exist in the 20s. As a result they get a rest of one week when Harrigan actually has the balls to admit they ****ed up. Drop them and stay dropped till someone in firsts has a ****up. I bet you will lessen the incidences of today's farce.

I also have a problem with inconsistency - which at the very best/worst seems to go against us very often - Sharkies got away with a shitload of slowing down the PTB. Masoe got penalised and rightly so, but Nulla did just as much if not more and got away with it.