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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2815844, member: 8215"] Agree with all of this. Some comments: The inconsistent refereeing is deliberate, I have no doubt about that. And there are three very good reasons (in the NRL's eyes) why: 1) Having "fairytale" premierships for certain teams. Since 2012 every premiership winner has had a story behind it. You could even argue that 2010 was manufactured, with Bennett delivering a trophy to the Dragon's faithful. 2012 was "redemption" for the Storm, as if to vindicate why that team, those players, the coach, and the managers got off so lightly (ie "even under the cap they were good enough"). 2013 was blatantly a $BW love-fest. 2014 was a pity premiership. 2015 more so, also to pay the Cows back for one legitimate bad call (and one that way dodgy but had little bearing, and one that was the correct call). 2016 was payback to Buzz for shielding Greenturd from all scrutiny. All very good for ratings. 2) Making games "flow". I've bitched about this enough. Failing to penalise teams for legitimate infringements because the "game needs to flow" is a crock of shit and I blame the dumbfuck media and the NRL equally. If a team is playing dodgy then penalise them out of the contest. It's the only way coaches will learn to clean up their players' behaviour. I don't care if one week the penalty count is 20-2 and the next it's 15-14, as long as the reasons for the penalties were consistent and justified. Ignoring indescretions in order to manage the spectacle is ridiculous for something that purports to be a fair contest. At the moment, teams are being rewarded for bad behaviour, especially early in matches, because the coaches know that the refs will eventually stop blowing the whistle (allowing the bad play to continue), and/or penalise the opposition teams later for absolutely nothing in order to tighten the contest or even up the penalty count. 3) Leg-ups to teams that are behind, in order to make the contest tighter. Like favouring certain teams to win the trophy, this is bordering on match-fixing. The refereeing is ruining the game. I would happily accept the bad scheduling, the difficulty in attending games live, the disorganised player-transfer system, the ease in which both clubs and players can break contracts, all of that shit, so long as the games were refereed competently, fairly, and consistently. [/QUOTE]

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