08 :: R17 Sun :: Storm 30 Raiders 14 @ Olympic

[I Bleed Green]

Game over.

 

[wittyfan]

Melbourne have finally come alive!

 

[VictorTheViking]

How was that not forward, it left his hands and went forward?

 

[Jono078]

Raiders not getting the 50/50 calls IMO.

Slater looked offside and within the 10 in the last try.

Hope Canberra use the wind well in the second half and win.

 

[Rovelli]

Melbourne come alive in the final five minutes. You knew it was coming.

 

[Hutty1986]

How was that not forward, it left his hands and went forward?

It's legal to do it if you're Melbourne in Melbourne

 

[gong_eagle]

It's legal to do it if you're Melbourne in Melbourne

and News Ltds protected species :sarcasm:

 

[edabomb]

So tough to beat the Storm when the ref goes in with a preconceived notion of how the game is going to go. I don't complain about the reffing very often, but we've clearly copped the rough end of a few vital calls this afternoon.

 

[skeepe]

Not getting the 50/50's, but what else is new?

Should have defended better at the end, regardless of whether the calls were correct or not. No excuses to conceed so many points in 5 minutes.

 

[RSK]

Not getting the 50/50's, but what else is new?

Should have defended better at the end, regardless of whether the calls were correct or not. No excuses to conceed so many points in 5 minutes.

This.

Good teams beat bad refs.

 

[VictorTheViking]

The thing that pisses me off the most is that we were playing and defending our damn line so friggin well until hinchcliffe gave away that dumb penalty....why do they have to continually push the f**kin envelope in that situation

 

[RSK]

Buttriss and Thompson back on please. It seems Neil is glued to his interchange system this game. Although Thompson needed a break, we should not have taken Buttriss off so early. He was killing it.

 

[bileduct]

Hah, that wasn't even a grapple yet we still got the penalty.

f**king hopeless refereeing.

 

[bileduct]

Geez I tell you what, Cummins really didn't want to give the Raiders a penalty for holding down.

WTF?! He just claimed that we milked it. WHAT A LOAD OF sh*t.

Logan was being pulled to the ground the entire time he was getting to his feet.

f**k OFF!

 

[VictorTheViking]

f**king logan for christ sake....why try and milk a penalty when theres nobody ontop of you?

 

[skeepe]

That is deadset the worst call you will ever see.

 

[VictorTheViking]

FFS how un f**king lucky........this is bullsh*t

 

[bileduct]

f**king logan for christ sake....why try and milk a penalty when theres nobody ontop of you?

He didn't milk it, the Storm player was holding onto him.

 

[skeepe]

Well there you have it. I just don't know what else to say. Cummins has had an absolute shocker here. Penalised for milking a penalty. And they score as a result. I resolved that I wasn't going to whinge about the refereeing today but my God they don't make it easy when they are so f**king incompetent.

 

[VictorTheViking]

Doesnt matter anyway, our luck is shot as was just shown by that accidental offside......