First things first, if it was anyone but SBW, they would have been marched, dog act and deserves plenty of time on the sidelines. Refs are too gutless to act decisively.
Second, what do you have to do to get 10 in the bin for a professional foul, 15 to go and anyone of 3 roosters players should have went.
The refs frankly had a sh*t game, some examples,the Pearce forward pass leading to the 3rd try, Knights hard on attack in the second half, Minicello knocks on to a player in an offside position, should be a knights penalty, they call a Knights knock on. Uate knock on, dropped it straight down and ends up in clear, ref could have allowed play to continue but called knock on.
Its difficult to beat the comp leaders but impossible if they keep getting massive legs up like the Roosters do. I just can't see how the refs keep balls it up. Some clubs such as Melbourne and the Roosters get a saloon passage.
On our performance, we were in it up to our necks with 10 to go and with a bit of luck we would have been in front, we made a number of chances which we didn't capitalize on in the first half with jimmy having a case of the dropsies in the clear.
I thought our forwards more than held their own against the Rooster grubs and losing Mase on the back of no Snowden hurt us but we muscled up and dug deep.
We lacked clean execution but frankly so did the Roosters for much of the game. With a ounce of luck our passes would have stuck and we would have been away.
I can see both points of view on the kick at goal and Bennetts view is reasonable.
Overall it was the one that got away but we can take a lot out of it. We just need to keep improving and playing tough and the rewards will come.
