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Ricky Stuart Blowing Up Deluxe

Snappy

Coach
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:lol: We watched the game again with a predetermined angle for our obviously bias article.
 

Someone

Bench
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:lol: We watched the game again with a predetermined angle for our obviously bias article.

thats funny coming from you.

You obviously have an agenda against Parramatta and its getting old. Are you upset you lost wonderboy Norman to the shittest club in the nrl? :lol:
 

LRC69

Juniors
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Seriously though, discretionary penalties are the bane of the modern game. (which most these weren't) When a ref can pull a play the ball penalty out of nowhere for one team but not the other...it is painful!!!!
And he is 100% right in saying the game is turning into super league era touch footy.
Its not rugby league any more but touch footy.
Watch the games closely and its every tackle nearly.
Players hitting the defence and going to ground trying to play the ball quickly when the tackle isn't even finished makes me sick...and Tim Mannah is probably the worst. Then all of sudden a team gets penalised for actually finishing the tackle which should have been called a surrender!!!
Compare that to the footy that happens off the back of an off load like JWH was doing for the roosters the other night....now that's rugby league...where a player runs hard with the intention of smashing the defence or getting an off load!!!
All team are guilty of the surrender....but the penalising is very inconsistent, game to game play to play!!!
Half the problems stem from the artificial speeding up of the play the ball...why does it have to be so fast anyway??? If you want good attacking footy against a retreating defence, then get some big boys in their who can create second phase by off loading...not wingers or light weights who hit the defence and try playing the ball as soon as they do..this will also give the small guys targets in the defensive line. (ive said this multiple times)
 

Bandwagon

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Yes because you have undisciplined rabble like the Eels and the Roosters Vs the well disciplined sides (we won't name names here.....)

so of course the referees are going to police teams differently.

It's a pretty simple concept.

Yes it is

Adjudicate the game upon a preconceived notion of the likelihood of each team to make an infraction of the rules and penalise accordingly.

What could be more simple?
 

Loudstrat

Coach
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When you're sat in front of the media after a game and everyone knows you're a reasonable coach you cop the loss on the chin and say 'no comment' when asked about the referees, on the other hand . . .
When your captain is suspended mid finals series a reasonable coach will always sue the judiciary after calling them cheats.

From the same rich mine of logic........

"Ricky Stuart has been upset at referees before. Therefore the referees decisions were all good." That means referees cannot penalise a side coached by an eternal optimist.

Even Skeepe - the forensic scientist of referees mistakes - reckons they were right simply because Ricky Stuart is coach.

As for ECT, I love when he posts when his testicles are caught in a vice. All his ranting over the sacredness of referees and how coaches should never bag them, yet a week earlier his coach went off deluxe over the same referees!
 
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When your captain is suspended mid finals series a reasonable coach will always sue the judiciary after calling them cheats.

From the same rich mine of logic........

"Ricky Stuart has been upset at referees before. Therefore the referees decisions were all good." That means referees cannot penalise a side coached by an eternal optimist.

Even Skeepe - the forensic scientist of referees mistakes - reckons they were right simply because Ricky Stuart is coach.

As for ECT, I love when he posts when his testicles are caught in a vice. All his ranting over the sacredness of referees and how coaches should never bag them, yet a week earlier his coach went off deluxe over the same referees!
And which coach would that be?
 

Sphagnum

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Answer the question. Which coach are you talking about?

Must be internet hour at codgersville farm, hey?

It doesn't matter who your team is.. or what sport you follow for that matter.

Your coach has blown up at being on the wrong end of a penalty count before.

Suck it up

You lost

Get over it

[insert more angsty dribble here]

etc
 
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