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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2815982, member: 8315"] Awesome post, Morkel. You mentioned a lot of stuff I had forgotten about. I've long suspected for years that the NRL is very keen on a theme, a storyline, a 'narrative' and, yes, a fairy tale. The great bonus of that is it's something the NRL can market for the next season forever. We're seeing it again this year with the whole 'who'll make history next' garbage. I first noticed it when SBW returned. It was so heavily hyped and marketed it couldn't be anything but a success. I'd like to go back and watch the 2013 GF again because I remember when Matai scored Manly looked to have it under control and SBW wasn't playing that well. Couldn't have that could we. Is that when deliberately giving away penalties on the goal line also became a thing? Did the Roosters pioneer that in order for the fairytale to occur? Another stinker was the Game 3 of Origin last year. I get that the series was over and it was a dead rubber but the officiating was appalling. I get the fact that the away team won't get the rub of the green and truth be known the Blues cop it even worse up north but to say that Michael Jennings had no active participation in that play was disgraceful. Interpretations are there to help referees with split hair calls. It's not there to do what it did that night and it looked highly likely that it was pushing for a predetermined result. I'm convinced we won't see another dead rubber again. The NRL can't afford it. It's the biggest cash cow we've got so they'll force it to a decider and whoever needs the 'fairytale' on either side will get the result. Luckily for us JT is retiring from rep footy so I guess we can bank this one. [/QUOTE]

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