Penalties.

[chook 56]

If we can improve on this, it will help to highlight the stinking bias against this club.

Embrace it.

I do.

Hate us…..we will crush you……and love it.

[Guest]

As Robbo always says, it's not the penalty that is the problem - it's how you react.

I remain amazed at what we achieved last season.

I'm not, Easts are @ their best when defensive attitude loses the penalty count and Easts grind a team into the ground holding them to 0 and win.

[Guest]

Manly have thrived their entire club history on the motto:

'You hate us? Guess what, we hate you too!'

As the former long-standing NRL media manager said to me in person when I rang up head office to give him a verbal barrage over officiating of a Roosters game back in about 2005...

"Look, it's no secret refereeing of Easts games has been a problem for the last four decades, I don't know the reason why that is, but there is no doubt there is an issue there..."

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[The Axe]

As the former long-standing NRL media manager said to me in person when I rang up head office to give him a verbal barrage over officiating of a Roosters game back in about 2005...

"Look, it's no secret refereeing of Easts games has been a problem for the last four decades, I don't know the reason why that is, but there is no doubt there is an issue there..."

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Who said this Edge?

[Tommy Smith]

As the former long-standing NRL media manager said to me in person when I rang up head office to give him a verbal barrage over officiating of a Roosters game back in about 2005...

"Look, it's no secret refereeing of Easts games has been a problem for the last four decades, I don't know the reason why that is, but there is no doubt there is an issue there..."

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Quite a startling comment in a professional sporting competition.

[Andrew Walker]

As Robbo always says, it's not the penalty that is the problem - it's how you react.

I remain amazed at what we achieved last season.

I too am amazed at what we achieved I have said numerous times to people it is an absolute miracle we won the com last year with the officating thatw ent on in our games throughout the year I am very grateful for the fact the officiating in the GF was unbiased

[Guest]

Quite a startling comment in a professional sporting competition.

For some..

[Kingsgrove-Loiner]

I too am amazed at what we achieved I have said numerous times to people it is an absolute miracle we won the com last year with the officating thatw ent on in our games throughout the year I am very grateful for the fact the officiating in the GF was unbiased

It's ironic that Manly still feel they were duded in that game. It was about the only game last season where were refereed fairly.

They forget about the semi where we got penalised about 14-7 or something.....

[BallyChook]

The problem is now that the perception is so far gone that we are an undisciplined team, who deliberately gives away penalties to gain an advantage (wtf?), that it is almost impossible for games involving us to be refereed in a fair manner. Conversely, everyone we play miraculously improves discipline.

All we can generally hope for in the foreseeable future is that we can hold a penalty count to be lost by 3 or 4 penalties. If so, we will have done well. And although there are views that we shouldn't worry about the counts against us, my fear is that eventually it will wear the team down (if it hasn't already). Hopefully, if the refs are true to form they'll stick the whistles in their pocket closer to finals time.

[TheLoneRooster]

It's ironic that Manly still feel they were duded in that game. It was about the only game last season where were refereed fairly.

They forget about the semi where we got penalised about 14-7 or something.....

I work with a rabid manly fan and he is still bitter about the GF as he believes manly were robbed.

[The Axe]

I work with a rabid manly fan and he is still bitter about the GF as he believes manly were robbed.

Sound familiar?

[elo]

I work with a rabid manly fan and he is still bitter about the GF as he believes manly were robbed.

Robbed? There were 3 bad calls in the game with 2 of them going our way and 1 to them.

If he wants to see highway robbery he should go watch the 2010 Grand Final, that match really should be investigated, so should Archer and Finch for the entire season.

[The Rooster Oracle]

Robbed? There were 3 bad calls in the game with 2 of them going our way and 1 to them.

If he wants to see highway robbery he should go watch the 2010 Grand Final, that match really should be investigated, so should Archer and Finch for the entire season.

Bingo! The first try to womanly was obstruction bull$hit!! And yes we were massively shafted in that 2010 GF, womanly have absolutely nothing to complain about in comparison!!

[Tommy Smith]

And ftr, Maloney's pass to Mini WAS backwards. It just looked foreard because of body positioning.