The lead in to the match on 9 was hideous. You could tell that they were getting ready to celebrate a souths victory before the first kick. Playing Glory Glory to South Sydney in the run in, classless - real football clubs content themselves with playing their song after a victory.
The 9 team of Gus and Sterlo were even worse, the crap that they came up with was phenomenal. Apparently Trex was throwing an offload for his knock on early but the identical one from Taylor was a harsh call as Manly players were driving him back.
Then there was a call of knock on as I think Peats dropped the ball and Sterlo calls that it was a strip by Stewart, when the replay shows it wasn't he simply states that Glens hands were around about the ball, since they clearly were not on it....
Not to mention all the forward pass calls that were made tonight and quickly passed over by the callers. I actually don't have a problem with the calls, but do have a problem with the fact that any other game they would have been let go, especially if the Storm, Eels, Tigers or Souths were the team at fault. And in those circumstances the commentary team would have been falling over themselves to talk about backward facing hands, and the ball being carried by the wind, and momentum and the rest. Tonight nothing...
Almost made me ill.
At least Lyon got some of the praise he deserved... he was so clearly the classiest player on the field that even Sterlo had to give him a wrap.
