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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3503456, member: 1899"] That's fair enough. Personally I think they cop too much blame for the slowing down of the game. It actually started happening earlier when the 2002 Roosters made gang tackling popular. You could see the change in 2003 become more defence oriented and it just became more refined from that point. From their perspective, it would have been annoying for them to win games only for the opposition to cry grapple. Especially when the opposition was just as guilty as the Storm were in specific games. Then you get the NSW media who go after Melbourne meanwhile other clubs would grub it up in the ruck and you'd hardly hear a word about it. Make no mistake, Melbourne were the best at it but because the NSW media tried to make it a us vs. them debate it just made it harder to police. [/QUOTE]

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