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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 3068146, member: 8315"] This is going to be a great thread. Enormous credit to [USER=9358]@Purple Pills[/USER] for compiling all this data. Like Darbs, I'm not much of a stat man. I used to be until I realised numbers can be twisted to paint whatever narrative anyone wants. I no longer give a damn which referee is appointed to our games. I can't believe I ever did. My ref bashing days are over. No ref, no game and all that. I do love a good "#refsfault" though and I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories. I'm fascinated by the bigger picture. Sports fans blaming the refs for their own teams' ineptitude never gets old. Consider some examples: Let's look at the 40-4 demolition of the Broncos by the Melbourne Storm recently. How exactly is Gerard Sutton responsible for the Storm making 11 line breaks? Brisbane missed 35 tackles. Incredibly, Melbourne missed more that night according to the match summary. One team defended their mistakes. The other side didn't. But yeah nah, Sutton screwed us over. Everyone's out to get us! So... in the post-match of that debacle a really interesting discussion broke out regarding the 2006 decider and the impact or influence referee Paul Simpkins had on it. I'm looking at it from a different angle. What do the Melbourne Storm and their supporters, as well as Brisbane fans thinking we got lucky think of the following: - Matt King losing the ball as Boyd and Tate tackled him - Steve Turner spilling a bomb from Lockyer. From the ensuing set, Lockyer sent Hodges through to score. - Geyer fumbling from acting-half - Inglis going into touch with the right-hand corner in sight - Jeremy Smith penalised for a leg pull - David Kidwell throwing a forward pass - Inglis spilling a pass from Geyer in the final minutes Now, some crucial calls went Brisbane's way but not as many as I thought. A lot of them were 50/50. I would've been ok if some of them went the other way. The only "howlers" were the shepherd and Hodges touching it at the end. That's just footy. This obsession with the match officials is ridiculous. It's even worse in a game as unpredictable as Rugby League. There are so many key moments, momentum swings, missed opportunities and near misses in any random game every week that I'm not sure anything meaningful can be gleamed from digging into who referees which team and when. Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]

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