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[Guest]

This is where there is something very strange Home games of ours recently the penalties seem to be even Yet away they have been lopsided against us for eons now Somehow sides when they play us seem to miraculously improve their discipline where they seem to concede much less penalties then their average per match

Make of it what you will

16-0 up you shouldnt lose Even if thta halftime score was flattering towards us

ok then...nothing

[Andrew Walker]

ok then...nothing

From you this does not suprise me

[John Corey]

We give away stupid ruck penalties.

That's the bigger problem.

It's mostly last year's brigade - like Kennedy's one that led directly to a try.

Our discipline is abysmal.

Kennedy wa strying to slow the ruck he had to we were getting steam rolled he was the only one trying in defence especially after friend went off .

Kennedy could not lift his fat arse up . That's why he gave it away. And he gave another away shortly after, that got blamed on someone else. Him and SKD need to go. We have plenty of depth. Marty runs like a pea heart and always gives away ruck penaltys.

No other changes needed. They will learn from this loss.

[Rocky Rhodes]

Gee mate, you really get very upset by me - Im glad you don't know where I live, you'd be stalking me. Have you considered therapy? As for the mental midget thing? Mate if we compared jobs (if you have one) I think I could afford to pay for your sessions

lol...So you reckon i'm the that's needs therapy? I'm not the one who is totally paranoid about the ref's and whinging about the ref's after every single loss over the last 5 or more yrs you have been on here.

Why on earth would i stalk you? You come across as a whinging pom so i wouldn't want to get within 10 meters of a smelly pom but one day if your lucky i'll throw a bar of soap at you. Now go and have a bath you paranoid schizoid freak.

I run my own business and I'm financially independent but thanks for asking. I'll remember to donate towards your soup kitchen in the mental institution that you are staying if you will be good.

[Guest]

Gee mate, you really get very upset by me - Im glad you don't know where I live, you'd be stalking me. Have you considered therapy? As for the mental midget thing? Mate if we compared jobs (if you have one) I think I could afford to pay for your sessions

What a wanker!! We all know what your job is. You have told us enough times. Did you see see Harrigan duck behind the grassy knoll you dope? The referee, our former grand final winning fullback is obviously an anti-Easts cheat. Us getting beaten had nothing to do with how we played. Ha ha ha LOL

[Kingsgrove-Loiner]

lol...So you reckon i'm the that's needs therapy? I'm not the one who is totally paranoid about the ref's and whinging about the ref's after every single loss over the last 5 or more yrs you have been on here.

Why on earth would i stalk you? You come across as a whinging pom so i wouldn't want to get within 10 meters of a smelly pom but one day if your lucky i'll throw a bar of soap at you. Now go and have a bath you paranoid schizoid freak.

I run my own business and I'm financially independent but thanks for asking. I'll remember to donate towards your soup kitchen in the mental institution that you are staying if you will be good.

Whats with all this anti - Pom shit?

I'll have you know that I have a shower every month, whether I need it or not......

[milanja]

We were up 16-0,

The raiders did not drop a ball in the 2nd half.

We put ourselves under pressure by them forcing line dropout and not seeing the ball for 10min of the 2nd half.

Skd and minis awful passes in try scoring opportunities in the 2nd half.

But lets blame the ref.

[player 1]

lol...So you reckon i'm the that's needs therapy? I'm not the one who is totally paranoid about the ref's and whinging about the ref's after every single loss over the last 5 or more yrs you have been on here.

Why on earth would i stalk you? You come across as a whinging pom so i wouldn't want to get within 10 meters of a smelly pom but one day if your lucky i'll throw a bar of soap at you. Now go and have a bath you paranoid schizoid freak.

I run my own business and I'm financially independent but thanks for asking. I'll remember to donate towards your soup kitchen in the mental institution that you are staying if you will be good.

Now there's a post of a mentally stable person
If I were you, I'd invest all that money you have on the green properties, you know Bond, Regent and Oxford St...


And Teeiyaki boy - I had no idea you were obsessed by me too!!

[Spirit of 66]

While not for a moment suggesting that we lost because of the penalties last night, I feel obliged to point out that the Raiders do have a habit of getting very good penalty counts against us when they play at home. This didn't hurt them last night and it certainly didn't help us:

2013: 2-6
2012: 4-9
2010: 1-5
2009: 3-9
2008: 2-5

There must be something in the cool Canberra air that triggers these penalty avalanches every time we play them there.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Not saying penalties cost us the game but sure didn't help.

There were the usual inconsistencies though... we conceded em but didn't get em on almost identical plays.

Oh well...that's the lot of an Easts fan.

[Yak]

What I found concerning more than anything was a high shot by a Canberra player was allowed to go unpenealised and the referee was clearly heard to say that is ok he fell into it

Have they changed the rules

I was absolutely livid when I heard that!! But I was equally livid when LOD simply hung an arm out to tackle Williams for the second try. Imo if Boyd Cordner stays on the field and LOD doesn't come on we win the game. I'm not saying we would have had much more dominance up the middle but that was a pathetic attempt on your own line and ended up costing us the match. His two stone cold dropped balls also won't help with him being selected next week. If Boyd plays I think they need to play either Guerra or Tasi. Both are far superior players. Oh and MK needs to watch SBW in the ruck. He holds the player down until his name is called by the ref and then immediately jumps up instead of pushing the envelope every time. On the flipside I thought his go forward was the best of our props.

[Spirit of 66]

Not saying penalties cost us the game but sure didn't help.

There were the usual inconsistencies though... we conceded em but didn't get em on almost identical plays.

Oh well...that's the lot of an Easts fan.

I think this is Player 1's main point - not that we were penalised, but that the Raiders weren't. Given that we scored virtually every time we were in their quarter, one or two extra 50m territorial handouts could easily have changed the result of what was, regardless of the penalties, a poor performance.

[TheLoneRooster]

It amazes me that no matter how clearly player 1 and Spirit of 66 spell out the anomaly of the lack of penalties received that there are some who just don't get the point. As Jack's Fur Coat stated above, "There were the usual inconsistencies though... we conceded em but didn't get em on almost identical plays." That is what gets to me most games, the inconsistencies.

And to those stupidly asking if Luke Phillips is in on the scam, in last night's game, the other ref cecchin (?) blew five of the six against the Roosters.

[Andrew Walker]

While not for a moment suggesting that we lost because of the penalties last night, I feel obliged to point out that the Raiders do have a habit of getting very good penalty counts against us when they play at home. This didn't hurt them last night and it certainly didn't help us:

2013: 2-6
2012: 4-9
2010: 1-5
2009: 3-9
2008: 2-5

There must be something in the cool Canberra air that triggers these penalty avalanches every time we play them there.

Do some more digging and I bet you will see similar penalty counts against us in other away fixtures This is one of the main reasons I rarely go to away games anymore

[TheLoneRooster]

raiders - 2013
R1 vs penriff (A) - lost penalty count 6-7
R2 vs goldy (A) - drawn penalty count - 11-11
R3 vs dragoons (H) - won penalty count - 6-3
R4 vs knoughts (A) - drawn penalty count - 4-4
R5 vs Roosters (H) - won penalty count - 6-2

Seems the faiders can do very little wrong at home. They have a +6 differential overall.

Now, let's compare how the Roosters have fared over the same five rounds in 2013 ...
R1 vs vermin (H) - lost penalty count 4-9
R2 vs worriors (A) - lost penalty count - 6-8
R3 vs groncos (H) - won penalty count - 8-7
R4 vs eels (H) - won penalty count - 6-5
R5 vs raiders (A) - lost penalty count - 2-6

-9 differential. Being at home seems to make less of a difference.