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Message: [QUOTE="Number6, post: 2977142, member: 9008"] Refs won’t penalise us 20-1 no matter their agenda cause their primary motivation is ‘a close competition’. They need something close to an even count. Giving away soft ruck penalties is fine for the first month. The problem is we don’t do our wrestling with finesse to look ok. It just looks like a second effort. Also it looks bad by comparison to our usual he’s on the ground quick everyone off in half a second style. Not saying we won’t get pinged at first but then we put up video montages of Melbourne and is side by side showing the same thing with different results on the website, get PR people to sell the story to the vultures in the media and WB calls out each one post game (as prev said we can pay a few fines). WB has to get over his refusal to wrestle. It isn’t an illegal tactic it’s a core part of successful defence in the modern 10m game without unlimited interchange. id like to remove the wrestle to but NRL has repeatedly proven won’t do it and even when they start to do a good job the media beats them up for the thing they have been asking for! It’s toxic. It’s a professional sport. No point in being a martyr. I’d rather we take the high ground on things that matter to the character of the team like developing our own talent and not acting like petulant children on the field. [/QUOTE]

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