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Message: [QUOTE="Unbreakable, post: 3123566, member: 8290"] We only made 3 more errors than Parra last night, surprisingly, 15-12. Whilst that was obviously a huge problem, I think the 6-1 penalty count (10-2 if you count the 6-to-go's I think?) was the main reason we didn't stand a chance. Right from the get go the Eels just dominated possession, now, I'm not a fan of square up penalties by any means, but there's literally no way we were 5x more ill-disciplined last night than Parra were. I'm gonna say it, I don't like 1 referee while there's no crowds. Previously, there was 2 counter-measures for a power hungry referee like we saw last night: A) The crowd will generally peer-pressure a referee into blowing a couple of penalties per game if the home team is getting dicked by the whistle (Aids in evening the game up) B) The 2nd referee would generally try and blow penalties for the team well behind in the penalty count to give it some semblance of fairness (Aids in evening the game up) Now that we have neither of those factors we're essentially relying on one interpretation of a single referee with zero persuasion from the home crowd and zero counter-balancing by a 2nd referee. I think we need to prepare ourselves for a LOT of one-sided penalty counts and a lot of teams getting blown out by 30+ due to the weight of possession against them. [/QUOTE]

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