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Message: [QUOTE="HarryAllan7, post: 3300285, member: 9372"] We were the better side and should have won. Apart from shooting ourselves in the foot, the refereeing was absolutely atrocious. How disheartening it must be for these young blokes to be under pressure all week, come out and give an incredible performance - matching it with the team leading the competition, only to be absolutely shafted by horrendous officiating and then have their coach say absolutely zero about it. I understand the notion of taking the moral high ground and not making excuses but enough is enough and Kevvie needs to start making a fuss. Ivan Cleary’s team won and STILL his main post match comments were around how Flegler should have been sent off instead of binned.. it’s a ridiculous assertion but I bet the next player to high tackle a panthers player will be red carded. Say what you want about appearing to whinge, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and using your comments as a coach translates DIRECTLY to benefits in on-field officiating.. whether you like it or not. Penrith had 5 or 6 head high tackles I saw worse than Fleglers and none of them even a penalty (let alone a sin bin), they were offside and all over the ruck all night and we couldn’t buy a 6 again for love nor money (and when we were given one out of pity, it was always 0 or 1st tackle), whereas Penrith were magically gifted a repeat set on 4th or 5th whenever they needed it. Fans have eyes and it’s plainly obvious that the same behaviours from either team weren’t being treated the same by the refs. Totally blatant and I’m unsure whether it’s corruption or ineptitude or both but for the love of god we can’t just keep sitting back and saying ‘oh that’s how it is’ and taking it. Yes the team needs to be better and play to a level where we can overcome bad calls and not put ourself in a position to be robbed - but Jesus Christ let’s do something to give them a chance to build some wins and confidence now and then we can worry about that down the track. gave myself 24 hours to calm down post game and watch a replay to make sure I wasn’t just being biased before posting this. Turns out I wasn’t. [/QUOTE]

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