Penalties

[Bowzy]

Once again the Warriors were very disciplined whilst playing us today, and as natural as the sun comes up in the morning we lose a lob-sided penalty count.

It's a conversation that continually follows us and our fans, its been raised in the media every once in a blue moon and will continue to happen.

I absolutely hate having to explain my frustration to people with evidence as clear as day.

It's cheating, we are continuously cheated out of games week after week and I'm absolutely sick of it.

I'll be the first person to stick their hands up and admit when the team plays poorly but what can I say when we get rorted out of games. Absolutely sick of it.

[Tommy Smith]

It's clearly a fix. Not even up for debate.

Cordner was smashed around the head and we receive nothing. The Tupou sin binning was a joke.

We have no hope of winning the comp this year whilst ever the refs are managing our games like this. We can forget it.

Tedesco would be smart to join the Dogs instead. Why would you join a team that the refs make a concerted effort to cheat out of 2/3 games?

[Andrew Walker]

I actually feel desensitised to it now.

[milanja]

We did actually play very poorly though, and other than that gift 2 points we should of had in front when cordner got hit high, we were really struggling to do anything with the ball.

[ROC181]

It's clearly a fix. Not even up for debate.

Cordner was smashed around the head and we receive nothing. The Tupou sin binning was a joke.

We have no hope of winning the comp this year whilst ever the refs are managing our games like this. We can forget it.

Tedesco would be smart to join the Dogs instead. Why would you join a team that the refs make a concerted effort to cheat out of 2/3 games?

You might think so but the two times we have won the comp this century, we've been the worst team on penalties.
As for the Toupo sin bin, the warriers did a similar holding the man down so we don't play it quick ON THEIR LINE but that's not a professional foul. For a professional foul it probably needs to seem like there is a 50% likely hood of scoring from about 20 out but from less than 1 metre where there's probably 90% chance of scoring, no professional foul...What a fowl up!

[The Brain]

We did actually play very poorly though, and other than that gift 2 points we should of had in front when cordner got hit high, we were really struggling to do anything with the ball.

I agree to an extant but that ref let them defend offside the whole second half just about on every tackle if your smothered you cant play football.
Their forwards were cactus in the second half.

[Guest]

Warriors conceded a total of 17 penalties in their last two games. Amazingly disciplined today.

[ChookyG]

I agree on the penalties but also think that we played very poorly.

One thing I think that isn't getting mentioned very much is that outside of how good our attack looked over the first month, our last 5 games in attack have been average. We've scored 12 points, 8 points, 24 points (Against Knights), 13 points and 13 points. And there was also the 14 point game against the Panthers. That's 5 times under 14 points in 9 games, not too good. I think the attacking structure is there but the plays just don't seem to be coming off.

I can't put my finger on what it is. The last couple of weeks we've looked very dangerous shifting it out to the edges and even in the middle but it seems like we're struggling to break tackles close to the line and get those clean offloads.

This is the main reason why I think Teddy makes us favourites next year. Our defence is very solid and him breaking as many tackles as he does on those shifts to the edges will be worth 2 tries a game imo

[milanja]

We have received 41 penalties for the season, the next closest to us is Newcastle and sharks with 53.

Sharks have the worst differential with -21 (53 F, 74 A)
We are -17 (41F, 58 A)

[BUDDY]

7 minutes to go. I think this is where flash went for the try. No penalty.

[Team Evil]

Referee makes right call to penalise Mitchell Pearce and cost Roosters the game against the Warriors


Nick Walshaw, The Daily Telegraph
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ASHLEY Klein, take a bow.

For no matter how many times we rewound the tape on this one, looking for something, anything on which to hang you for the dramatic penalty decision that finished the Roosters, there was nothing.
Nada. Only you, with the clock winding out, making a call as ballsy as it was bang on. So thanks for nothing.
Referees Right ... who wants to read a headline like that?
LATE SHOW: Warriors put Roosters to the sword

Pearce was left confounded by the late loss. (Photo by Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images) Especially when Roosters halfback Mitchell Pearce, five days after booting his side to an Anzac Day thriller, appeared to have done it again.
But then, you ruled him offside. With a tick over 60 seconds to play.
Warriors star Shaun Johnson converting for what we hoped was the most controversial of finishes.
But then we checked the tape — three times — and found that as Pearce tackled Warriors centre Blake Ayshford 20m out from his tryline, with the seconds ticking down and his side up by one, he did indeed remain in an offside position. Just as you told him.
Rather than retreat 10 metres, or even rise to marker, a physically stuffed Pearce simply knelt beside the play the ball.
And had the ensuing play shifted right, as it first seemed, no drama. But it didn’t.

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Johnson's tricky strip

No, after first going towards the posts, the Warriors then came back to the left where Pearce rose before attempting tackles on Simon Mannering, Isaac Luke and Johnson.
And just like that, the man who appeared to have won it for the Roosters did the opposite. Which is heartbreaking, sure.
For in the same week he kicked his Roosters to victory in an Anzac Day thriller — his first successful field goal in 19 straight attempts — Pearce appeared to have again got his side home with five minutes to play.
And should have.
For with under two minutes on the clock, the Roosters were attacking the Warriors tryline. Pearce bombing a cross kick which appeared headed for touch.
No drama. Let it go out, wind down the clock and defend from a scrum at the right end of the field. Yet instead, centre Shaun Kenny-Dowall flicked the Steeden back into the field of play. For nobody.

It was a frustrating afternoon for the Roosters. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images) And so Johnson scooped it up, ran upfield and got tackled. At which point, Roosters forward Zane Tetevano flopped on him.
Penalty. Again, correct call.
Just as Klein and his buddies in yellow were right in the first half when binning Roosters winger Daniel Tupou for a professional foul. And so the Warriors went upfield and, even when they appeared to have lost it again, won the game.
At which point critics of Pearce will look to hang him. They always do. Yet for much of this one, he looked the man most likely.
Same deal Kenny-Dowall, who despite making the wrong call when flicking that ball back into play, scored one try after intercepting a Johnson pass and essentially set up another after picking up a loose Johnson pass and running 50m upfield..
Indeed, after those two blunders it seemed the Warriors playmaker had lost it for his team.
Instead, he did the opposite. All while the referees were — gasp — right.

[milanja]

7 minutes to go. I think this is where flash went for the try. No penalty.

Why is friend in the warriors defensive line??

[mightyrooster]

What I don't get is if the Klown played advantage how could he then go back and give them a penalty well after they failed to take advantage of that advantage?
And what about the high shot on Cords a few minutes before?

[Johnny Tobin]

I almost vomited when i read, "Ashley Klein. take a bow."

The only bow I want to see that prick take is to put his neck on the chopping block.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

The point of whether this one incident was technically right is not really the issue.

It's the context of the overall game whereby we played the almost perfect team in discipline and adherence to rules. Two teams again reffed differently for 80 minutes.

Then to come up with that decision at that time when normally it would be missed or overlooked looks very....unusual.