Interesting stats but I'm trying to get a feel for what they are actually telling us..
If we have a bad record under a certain ref, does it mean we don't get their interpretations, or do they just hate us more??
After last weeks game I was interested in which refs work well with us and which ones didn't. Firstly I looked up the penalties, but as we know they usually come out equal, and some penalties are different from others, like Penrith getting a penalty on their 5th tackle in our quarter and the Dragons getting a penalty on the first tackle on our 20 metre, which happened. The stats on penalties don't give us that information.
But I think that certain referees have a subconscious bias towards certain teams. They might not penalise them more than another team, but they might look for one team to infringe because they think that they will infringe.
The stats show us that quite often the refs are teamed up as a duo quite a bit.
Anyway I will be watching tonight as we have refs that are favourable to us but we are not tipped to win. We shall see.
