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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3264866, member: 9052"] I think the thing that pisses me off the most about the game at the moment is the complete lack of consistency in the officiating. This isn't just a 6 again thing either, because I feel that referees have been manipulating results for the last 10-15 years. You can watch a game and blatantly see calls being made to influence a game... the Chad Townsend 'crusher' on the weekend being a perfect example. Sharks had all the momentum and the bunnies were every chance of being run down, but low and behold a NSWRL darling gets a penalty for something that didn't even happen and they go down the field to score a try and effectively end the game as a contest. The most frustrating thing for fans is that they can see the call was a dud, the commentators can see the call was wrong, but they have zero power to stop it from happening. Hell the players have zero power to change it, because they can't challenge a call that has already been reviewed by the person who is meant to be reviewing captain's challenges. Everyone can only sit back and watch as a winnable game is taken away from them by a completely incorrect and oftentimes unnecessary call, and this type of call happens all the time and in basically every game. The referee manipulation was obvious pre 6 again era, it was all about creating close games. If one team got too far ahead the ref would start blowing every call against them to bring the other team back into the contest. However in this current era the ref appears to pile on to whichever team doesn't have momentum and is fine with creating blowout scorelines... and the frustration from fans is the complete inconsistency of the calls. In the broncos game vs manly we had the TPJ incident, but to me I would question how there were no other reportable offences in the 400 odd other tackles throughout the game? The shot from TPJ was innocuous at best, but you're going to tell me that there were absolutely no other shots that slipped up that the referee may have missed... A decision like that cannot be scrutinised against other tackles in the game, because who is going to sit through every single tackle each game to find the ones they miss, but when a viewer sees a shot that gets missed and goes unpunished, such as Dearden getting taken high after kicking, they start pulling their hair out as to why that wasn't a penalty when it is every other week or was probably even officiated different earlier in the game... blockers on kicks being another one... Coates can't get near the ball nowadays, but apparently every team in the comp is an expert at legally blocking him. Then you see DCE, Moses, Gutho, whoever take a dive 30m from the ball, because they literally just ran into someone's shoulder or something, and the ref can't wait to get the whistle out. The same can be said about offsides nowadays and the blatant disregard to 6 agains. Not only are the refs completely inconsistent with making the calls, but the penalty on the team that has committed it is basically zero so they will just keep doing it... there is currently no deterrent to stop!! The current game just blatantly rewards whoever cheats the most... I cannot think of any other sport in the world where the team that cheats the most on the field is the consistent winner and that would piss people off to no end. I also cannot think of any other sport in the world that can be manipulated so easily by the officiating, to the point where they can have complete control over who wins. If I'm in the underworld and want to do match fixing, I wouldn't be going to the high paid celebrity status players... I'd be going to the poorly paid referee that literally cannot be scrutinised or have their motives questioned by coaches and whose complete manipulation gets shrugged off as incompetency or managing of the game. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it's already happening. [/QUOTE]

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