The Rugby League media really need to apply some pressure to the referees about the inequality with the way certain teams are officiated in comparison to others. I’m not going to pretend that we were good enough to win this game but the fact that we were basically penalized out of the contest today was just shit to watch. If we get beaten by better teams and given a fair go then that’s fine but we’re basically playing from 12 points behind in every game against teams like Cronulla/Melbourne/Roosters/Broncos etc because they are constantly being given extra opportunities with the ball.
It felt like today was more of a 6-10 point game yet we were down by 26 on the score board. We seem to exist just to take a beating from other clubs at the moment. If the Storm copped some of those calls (or non-calls) today I can guarantee some phone calls would be made and it wouldn’t happen again next week.
Yet tomorrow everyone in the media will carry on about how dominant Cronulla were and how they’re a premiership threat when in reality they were good for about 20 mins at the end of the game after we were gassed because of all the extra tackling we had to do.
Go forward equals momentum. Get going forward, a roll on, dominate the ruck and quick play the ball you'll find a decent amount of decisions go your way. Close 50% of the time. We get a few minutes of that here and there atm.
Yes we were down on troops but we are 6 to 8 decent first graders away from being a competitive top 8 side. In particular, 2 to 3 agro, metre eaters will only do to help us get there.
There are some weeks we can compete with our current prop rotation but not enough to win more than half the season's games.
We also need a hooker with a brain and we have to upgrade our bench from players like Buhrer to really have a shot getting into a second week of semis.
