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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3159229, member: 1899"] The Lodge call was rough, but since it was ruled as a strip on the field, the footage did nothing to support him. It would have been one thing if his arm just knocked the ball loose, but he wrapped his arm around the ball and it happened to come loose as he forced his arm through the tackle. There wasn't enough evidence to clear him and if it had been sent up as a Souths knock on chances are it would have been over-turned as well. You can't get too caught up with the referees when your team loses by 13+ but there were a few calls that did my head in. Namely the offside penalties deep inside Souths half. Either the team is that ill-disciplined that even with minimal line-speed they're somehow offside or the referees have a tip sheet and they're managing games based off of them. Go back and watch the first few minutes of the Wests game and try to convince me they weren't jumping the gun by a metre or three early in every set. The first time was a stitch up, the second time was blatant. Not even the official website knew who was offside so they gave it to Boyd when Atkins clearly said it was Turpin (for a second time, 'referee homework'). Sure enough, Souths get three penalties, kick a penalty goal, heads go down, Latrell makes a clean line-break and suddenly the Broncos are once again defending wave after wave of attack. Again that doesn't excuse a 13+ loss but it's frustrating that right as the Broncos are gaining any sort of ascendency in the contest, it's taken away by three dodgy penalties. [/QUOTE]

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