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Message: [QUOTE="JayPee, post: 2814507, member: 9256"] This. To be fair though it happens with most fans of every team. I have seen a few Melbourne fans whinge about the deliberate penalties given when we were scrambling and the few times Vunivalu was taken off the ball and then the Chambers ruling. I was glad we gave away a few more penalties in the ruck when we were defending our line. Too often we don't and let in a try when we could just get set better by giving away a penalty. We have been the least penalised teams in the last few years which although looks good on paper discipline wise it doesn't help you at all. Got to push the boundaries because the refs have shown for years they don't have the backbone to put anybody in the bin. Paul Kent made a good point about the Sharks last week on 360. Somebody asked how were they so quick up on the raiders and he said they are offside all the time. He said they know they might get penalised a few times early but eventually the ref will think to himself geez if I blow about 40 penalties here it is going to be perceived that I am not letting the game flow etc etc even though most teams probably deserve it. It is pretty clever stuff when you think about it. Until people start getting put in the bin it is never going to be fixed. Need to take a leaf out of the Cowboys, Roosters, Storm books in regards to this. They are usually in the top few penalised teams because they push the boundaries [/QUOTE]

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