Referees today.

[Guest]

I wonder if they give the ref's drug tests ....... because they should.

well there is no risk they are taking performance enhancing drugs

[Guest]

I actually didn't have a MASSIVE complaint over Wallace's try. Was listening to 2GB and they were blowing up about it saying it was no try. No way is it benefit of the doubt. It's a try or a penalty but we've had way worse calls go against us.

The call where they just let that gibberer run away untouched though, unbelievable.

[Hawkeye]

It's not so much one called Roosters ball and then the other overruled it calling Broncos ball, it's the fact he then let the Bronco get up and run down field. There was a tackle, the players were grappling for the ball ...it should have been a play the ball one way or the other ....to let the Bronco just get up and run down field was just scandalous !

[Hawkeye]

I wonder if they give the ref's drug tests ....... because they should.

forget the drug test ...I think a brain scan is called for !

[PKR]

forget the drug test ...I think a brain scan is called for !

Only thing is ..... they wouldn't find anything.

[Guest]

It's not so much one called Roosters ball and then the other overruled it calling Broncos ball, it's the fact he then let the Bronco get up and run down field. There was a tackle, the players were grappling for the ball ...it should have been a play the ball one way or the other ....to let the Bronco just get up and run down field was just scandalous !

Hawk you & I know that's correct, Chechin or the other bloke should be given a lengthy suspension, it was one of the worst rulings I've ever seen!!

[mightyrooster]

Hawk you & I know that's correct, Chechin or the other bloke should be given a lengthy suspension, it was one of the worst rulings I've ever seen!!

Even Ray Warren said it was disgraceful and we all know he hates Easts.

[kurtsherlock6]

Hawk you & I know that's correct, Chechin or the other bloke should be given a lengthy suspension, it was one of the worst rulings I've ever seen!!

And then tried to cover it up by spinning absolute bullshit when questioned on it.

[Guest]

I want an explanation on how wallaces try is deemed benefit of the doubt

[Guest]

I want an explanation on how wallaces try is deemed benefit of the doubt

That was a text book double movement any other game ever.A payback from Aronas knock on try one could think...

[Hawkeye]

That was a text book double movement any other game ever.A payback from Aronas knock on try one could think...

A square up is the only explanation. I know supposedly ref's dont square the ledger after a mistake, but to me giving it a BOD just confirms it. It was either a try or a penalty, there were two good/clear camera shots showing clearly what happened, there was no benefit of doubt ...you either think it's a try or not !

I havent seen as obvious a square up since McCallum reffing our 1987 semi, incorrectly ruled a double movement against Danny Shepard, then ruled an even more obvious incorrect double movement against Cliff Lyons.

[Guest]

While the current refereeing is attrociously bad, I think it's time to make the following observation.

The Roosters blaming the referees, week-in, week-out, for costing us victories, is rather like the Australian Labor Party blaming the Murdoch press, week-in, week-out, for its current dismal polling.

While it's true that the referees have it in for the Roosters, and the right-wing newspapers have it in for Labor, you still can't keep on going on blaming someone else for your own incompetence.

The referees, since 1908, have ALWAYS had it in for Easts, yet in better times WHEN WE GOT OUR ACT TOGETHER, we still have made multiple finals series and won 12 comps....

And the hatred of Labor by the Murdoch press (and the Packer press before that, and other right-wing media operators before that) didn't stop Labor from winning many elections, WHEN IT GOT ITS ACT TOGETHER....

The point of my post is, yep, the refs hate us... but can we stop blaming other parties and external factors for what is essentially OUR OWN FAILING....

We are an incompetent football club on the field. We are badly coached and the players (though many are talented) do not have a clue how to win a game of Rugby League.

To any despondent Labor people reading this, the same applies... some good people, some decent policies, but "on the field" ie. the day-to-day political battles, they keep losing because they have no tactics, no game-plan, no belief even!

Like politics, Rugby League when boiled down, is a simple game. A simple formula. Winning Rugby League games is also like trying to lose weight... it's simple when you finally discover how to do it!

As a Roosters man and a Labor man myself... it's distressing times indeed!

[Guest]

Least you can always change the political team you follow

[Guest]

I blame Tony Abbott for the loss today, he's just too negative.

[milanja]

I think they awarded the wallace try because if he promoted the ball or not he was gonna land over the line regardless. not right and a square up, but that was how i saw it.

That other blunder has got to be the worst thing i have seen by a ref. ever. it blows the inglis "try" out of the water. imagine that in origin? Now lets see if it gets a mention/explanation in the rags.