Roosters fans be like 'The refs have it in for us....

[Cockosh]

Such adversity. This club needs to be given a fair go at competing with rest. A leg up of some sort.

No adversity and no need for subsidies, leg ups or assistance. We aren’t that type of club. We create our own success. That’s why we are the only constant since 1908.

 

[Valheru]

That's the thing. There is no 50-50 stat.

Exactly so it is conjecture.

Meanwhile we do have a verifiable penalties received stat. What are your thoughts on that?

 

[Haffa]

Just as most neutral supporters think you guys cheat the cap. Besides penalties didn't matter when Walker showed up your team in round 1. #26-16

Souths fans summed up in one post.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

Such adversity. This club needs to be given a fair go at competing with rest. A leg up of some sort.

To be fair, teams like Parra do help to even things up by signing 30 year old wingers to 3 year deals at $500K a year.

 

[Valheru]

No adversity and no need for subsidies, leg ups or assistance. We aren’t that type of club. We create our own success. That’s why we are the only constant since 1908.

These simpletons don't understand that we haven't claimed adversity, we didn't even start the thread.

You presented the penalties received stat and they have no idea how to dismiss it.

 

[Souths Till I Die]

Souths fans summed up in one post.

Such a baseless statement. It’s just one fan responding to another.

 

[Cockosh]

These simpletons don't understand that we haven't claimed adversity, we didn't even start the thread.

You presented the penalties received stat and they have no idea how to dismiss it.

It’s difficult proving a point with facts when you are up against simple minded opinions. It’s like the myth about easts deliberately giving away penalties on our own line. As someone said here earlier it was disproven and most penalties we give away are actually in our oppositions half usually late in the count. But hey let’s not let facts destroy a perfectly good myth. I couldn’t care less about the penalty anomaly, as a chooks fan it’s just how it is. I just like throwing the facts out there when some genius starts a thread like this.

 

[Knuckle-dragger]

Love how @God-King Dean just flicks a match onto the kindling, steps back, and just watches the thread go up in flames.

Respect.

 

[Burwood]

I think it’s often the type of penalties that irks opposition fans. Some teams give away the bulk of their penalties early in the tackle count defending their line. They receive questionable penalties late in the tackle count when pinned down deep in their own half.

I reckon a team would be happy with a 4-8 penalty count against them every week if the penalties were awarded like mentioned above.

 

[Vee]

Amazing. How are is it possible are able to compete, let alone succeed, with that kind of adversity?

English please.

 

[Lambretta]

All this shows is that it's been a deliberate tactic of the Roosters to give away penalties when defending their own line since 2008.

You give away a penalty any time your defensive line is stretched or rushed inside the ten. It gives you the chance to reset again against a set start, plus it frustrates the opposition because they never really get a roll on. Eventually, if they've had enough tackles with the ball in your 10 and they haven't scored, they start to feel the pressure of the whole situation and then they start to take stupid risks because they feel that they really should have scored with all the ball that they've had.

Roosters woke up to this tactic much earlier than all the other teams but quite a few of them have started to copy it now.

If you broke down penalty stats and excluded penalties given away when defending your own line, I'm sure the Roosters would compare much more favorably with the rest of the competition.

Erm DKR
Penalties given to us
Not penalties conceded or differentials

If we were talking about those your argument (which was possibly, maybe true in one season) might hold some water

As it is the conversation is going like this

Roosters fan "I earn $500 less than a Broncos fan"
You "that's because you spend too much money"

 

[Pedge1971]

So 1 call is your evidence of 75% leg ups to us despite but overwhelming penalty stats mean zero lol. And no other team gets those kinds of calls?

Thats a lot of penalties on your line to have no one sin binned....

 

[Pedge1971]

Don’t get defensive mate most neutral nrl fans regard the 2014 refs treatment of Souffs as the benchmark in positive bias towards a team. #premiers #enjoyingtheshade

Roosters fan on this forum calling someone else defensive.......

 

[Pedge1971]

No adversity and no need for subsidies, leg ups or assistance. We aren’t that type of club. We create our own success. That’s why we are the only constant since 1908.

Brought to you by Uncle Nicks golf game and 5 fans.....

 

[gerg]

Brought to you by Uncle Nicks golf game and 5 fans.....

The 15 other clubs should really pitch in (pun intended) and buy Uncle Nick some putting lessons. Poor bastard can't take a trick on the greens.

 

[Cockosh]

Brought to you by Uncle Nicks golf game and 5 fans.....

You’ve made about 10 posts and not a single one contains any facts or evidence just opinions and repeating myths and urban legends. If you say it often enough they might become true. Keep going mate don’t let reality stop you.

 

[Cockosh]

Thats a lot of penalties on your line to have no one sin binned....

Not sure how your response is relevant to my post?

Regarding repeated penalties on our line what is your source of proof? We gave away 9 penalties vs knights. 2 were on our 10m line. One was a questionable strip vs keary in opening 2 minutes. The second was jwh holding ponga down. There was a 3rd 20 metres out where Ikavalu tackles the player in the air from a line drop out. I’m sure you have many examples you will share that prove we deliberately give away penalties on our line.

 

[adamkungl]

Nice try @God-King Dean but nothing has winded up Roosters fans as much as Pearce having the gall to enjoy his win last week.

 

[Haffa]

Pedge or MilkShark who hates the roosters more?

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Too bad ponga couldn't put a few more penalties over. The "no team who has conceded 50 points has never won the premiership" thread would be mint