Joey is flabbaghasted at a lot of things, none of them give others much trouble to understand
Adding this in really doesn't back your argument up
I know, I was just highlighting it because that's why it stood out from the spate of other bad calls.
Honestly, Qld have had the upper hand every year with dodgy calls going there way. If you disagree with that i'd be very surprised.
I'm not going to agree with a generalisation. Yes, there have been games where the Maroons have received the rub of the green but it's been decades since we've seen such a one-sided refereeing performance.
Qld didn't come to play footy, they wanted hold down in the tackles and slow the game down.
So does every team in the NRL, including the Cronulla Sharks, it's called controlling the ruck and both sides did their best to bend the rules in this regard.
NSW were guilty of this as well, yet were rarely penalised for it. Two obvious examples come to mind, the Farah hand in the ruck and Moylan being all over Parker like a cheap suit while he was trying to play-the-ball. Both happened early on and it's difficult to fathom why at least one of them weren't a penalty.
However, to say that the Maroons didn't come to play football lacks basis. They demonstrated from the opening stages a desire to spread the ball on any part of the field and it resulted with a fairly routine try to Greg Inglis. Had possession and field territory been more even, I'm sure the Maroons would have scored more points. Unfortunately the Blues received more than their fair share and we were treated to some very pedestrian attack.
They deserved every single one of those penalties conceded for this.
Didn't you concede earlier that were a few bad calls?
Sounds like you're making it up as it goes along there...