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Message: [QUOTE="Dave, post: 2090318, member: 1763"] I'm with you Coxy - our game is a tough game, played mostly by tough men who shouldn't be out there looking for penalties. The game can be blamed for the excessive amount of gamesmanship IMO - If players knew that unless the ref sees it it's play on then there wouldn't be the amount of acting we see in the game today. The running into players thing - especially the first one on Friend - were just dumb things to do and I thought the first one could have quite easily gone against us. All Ennis had to do was look how far both Boyd and Wallace were in front of the chasers - there was no chance either player was going to be run down. The game has bred a culture of lying down because of its dependancy on technology - no doubt Ennis milked the penalty for the high shot on Friday night but plenty of other NRL players would do it. Individual players stick to their own culture of getting up and playing on - guys like Webcke, Petero, Lance Thompson, Thorn would never lie down. It's not just Ennis who milks penalties for the Broncos though - plenty of our guys stay down if they get hit and it really annoys me but they are not Robinson Crusoe. They do it because the game allows them to. [/QUOTE]

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