Jeba said:
Morris was clearly out. But look where the touchy was standing. He was behind the play with Perrett blocking his view of Morris's feet. Yeh, shouldve been a scrum to the Roosters, but that's footy.
Carneys pass was clearly forward.
**** why am I arguing? It's obvious that if anyone else was coaching the Dragons AP wouldn't even be posting in this thread.
Hey AP, Bennett = best coach in the history of Rugby League.
there were 2 other referees watching the play at the same time, yet they somehow missed it too. and even though he couldnt see his feet, he could deduce that his feet were in touch by the fact that he was standing on one of them, and from the position of his hips both his feet were clearly not in the field of play. if theyre not in the field of play, and hes standing on one of those feet, hes out.
i dont know why im bothering, even if the Dragons got beaten by 50 you would be on here saying how brilliant Bennett is because they didnt get beaten by 60 [icon_lol1. .
like ive said many times before, i dont like my own team winning and getting a legup by blatantly incorrect referee decisions - so i sure as hell dont like it when a team i strongly dislike win that way.
and ive disliked St George since long before Wayne Bennett was there thank you very much. it seems im one of the few people on here who HAVENT done a complete about face and gone from hating the dragons to loving them as my second team, like you and most of the others seem to have. going from hating a team to loving them because they got a different coach is like hating a team cause theyre full of grubs and players you dislike to loving that same group of players and team because they got a different little boy to run out the kicking tee. its ridiculous.
like i said, the dragons might have won regardless of all the incorrect refereeing decisions - but thats not the point. the Roosters shouldve been at least 10-0 in front, and that would be a HUGE mental hit on the dragons, going in to the second half down by 10 when theyve only won something like 3 games this season after being behind. instead they went in basically even by way of referee decisions.
@Coxy: " Up to now I've been willing to accept AP's opinion, but his blindly biased tirade in this game just shows he's a giant douche who can't hack it that Bennett is the best coach in history."
where have i said that Bennetts not the best coach in history? many times ive said that he is, and another premiership under his belt surely isnt going to make me change my mind.
but nothing ive said in this 'blindly biased tirade' has anything to do with bennett eusa_think .
were you even watching the same game as me? i thought you knew the rules of rugby league. if you do a forward pass to a player whos in front of you, thats offside. its a penalty, not a forward pass. even if you dont rule the offside, you have to give a penalty for an intentional forward pass in this instance because morris looked up at him, then a second later threw him the pass when he clearly saw the player was in front of him.
if you kick at the ball while someones trying to put it down - which soward clearly did, watch the replays to see him kick his leg at the last second (and remember it doesnt have to connect with the ball, you just have to do it) - its a penalty try. its been given a few times over the last season or 2 so far, including in an origin match, yet on this occasion? nothing. morris stood out, then the VERY NEXT TACKLE saints scored. they shouldnt have scored because they shouldnt have had the ball.
then theres the push in the back while perret was trying to catch the bomb. how the hell did they not penalise that? morris clearly just gave him the big ol' 2 handed shove right in the middle of the back. last time i checked, you werent allowed to do that. Saints score off the resulting set of 6, when yet again they shouldnt have had the ball.
and that brings me to the 'benefit of the doubt'.............f#$^ me dead. there was no doubt at all - the ball clearly bounced from the saints player, to the roosters players arm, then back into the saints players arms. from the front on replay, you see the ball come out of the dragons players arms and start heading to the left. then i suppose miraculously it just does a complete change in direction and decides it wants to go back to the right to go back to his arms [icon_lol1.. what an absolute joke.
now just to reiterate - none of that has ANYTHING to do with how good/bad Bennett is as a coach. its purely referees HEAVILY influencing the outcome of a game, and in a grand final nonetheless. it was an absolute joke.
i was expecting the dragons to win anyway btw, so the result isnt really what i care about. at half time when the roosters were leading i told everyone that i think the dragons will run away with it in the last 15-20 and win 34-14. i just hate the fact that yet another grand final was influenced by the referees, and to a very high degree at that.
