Well, from a Warriors point of view and last years grand final, welcome to the world of the leg ups for the Sea Eagles.
Last nights video refs were absolutely disgracefull and deserve to be shown the door and never officiate in the NRL again. Cheating is a harsh term but it might perhapes fit here. Hard luck guys, you deserved better than lastnight.
Mate both Storm and Manly get legs up
Parra in 09 in the gf yes we got behind early by a fair way but we were realing that lead in (6 points in the last 12 minutes) when a stupid call went Melbournes way (when we had momentum) in front of the posts it killed us and any chance we had to really make a play with a try in the next couple of sets. Granted we were behind most of that match but we were dudded with that one call to really give us a chance.
We have always been dudded when it comes to Melbourne finals.
Manly get a leg up as the NRL see that Manly are the 'bad guys' of NSW. they seem to think they need to be going well to have the NRL more interesting or something. My theory on Melbourne is just that they are from Melbourne NRL want a successful Vic team.
Don't expect NZ to get any favours given to them
Souths have been given favours this year to an extent and will have tonight against Raiders (if they arn't in front by a decent margin on their own accord)
NRL is a greedy machine that doesn't reward teams on their actual ability imo they know exactly what they want. If that was my team that won on those calls last night i wouldn't want to have 'won' like that. But Manly fans don't give a shit.