Wow. What a game. The Knights benefit from one of the biggest leg-ups I've ever seen.
* Should have been a penalty try to start the game. At very worst Gidley should have been binned, instead he scores and converts the first try.
* Knights drop the ball on their 20 and it's called six again - Try.
* MacDougall passes off the ground - Try.
* Knights kick out on the full - scrum called deep within Broncos territory and not on halfway as it should have been.
* Folau has the ball knocked about 10m backwards out of his grasp - play on called.
* Vuna never grounds the ball - Try given. FFS Cummins never even wanted to go upstairs and was ready to give despite seeing nothing.
The Knights played well, and were in top form, but it's very easy to be the dominant side when you have the f**king refs in your pocket. Brisbane clearly displayed they were capable of winning that match. Problem is they were denied a fair shot at competing.
There's iffy decisions, then there's the weight of what is demonstrated above, on the back of a 7-3 penalty count.
One could argue that you can't complain about ref decisions when you drop that much ball. But there was much more than some "iffy" decisions tonight. It was downright incompetance.
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I'm watching the game right now, and few of those decisions are 'clear-cut'. Brisbane played no where near the class of the Knights. Get over it. If Rabbits fans can accept their hiding at the hands of the Panthers, Broncos fans should be able to as well.
Originally posted by _Johnsy
"As I said brisbaneare a 1 man team. You don't watch many Dragon games. Sowards not our main playmaker.
Hornby is, we were fine last week"
Uhh Hornby isn't the main go-to-man in attack, if anything it is Darius Boyd. You watch, every game Darius Boyd has been out this year the Dragons have been woeful at scoring points. He is involved in essentially all of their tries, and even when both Ben Hornby and Jamie Soward are there, if Boyd is out, they can only score off 'lucky' tries or fancy tries from Jamie Soward.
Dragons are as much a 1 man team as the Broncos are; the great thing about the Dragons though is that their defence is so good that they don't usually need to score many points to win games. However, in attack, they really are a 1-man team. No Darius Boyd, very few points.
It's the exact same with Jarryd Hayne and the Eels, however. It's not like the playmakers from both teams can't score tries-the Dragons are brilliant at set-play tries and the Eels can score tries from anywhere if they want to-but Darius Boyd and Jarryd Hayne are similar in that they play a role of confidence-boosting for their team; when they are there, the teams they play for lift to a whole new level, but take them away, and their confidence in attack is gone.
I agree though that Hornby is the main playmaker, but if you are talking about the person that sets up all your tries, it is Darius Boyd.
