The referee was a joke. I never use him as an excuse, but Steve Lyons was awful.
In the first half there were several high tackles against us, and he warned Monty Betham that next time he'd send someone off. So there was a next time, but Seu Seu a repeat offender, did another high tackle... and took no action. Grow some balls son.
The Seu Seu tackle on Davico was 10 x worse than the one that Hodges was sent off for.
And then with 7 minutes to go, he did cost us the game. Gafa was playing the ball, the Warriors bloke was all over him and pushed him back, and the referee ruled a knock on (the ball never went forward, it was just a sloppy play the ball which the Warriors caused). From the ensuing scrum, the Warriors scored the match winning try.
I think the Warriors had the game plan to come out and try and rattle us by going high, apparently it worked.
Meli, Faumuina and Seu Seu will find themselves on the sidelines for quite a while, if there's any consistency.
Still, we could've won it much earlier. No excuses I suppose.