Chip & Chase link said:
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I thought Robinson was great C&C, solely based on him being the only ref with enough balls to constantly ping Melbourne for their filth
Gee I don't know mate, he pulled them up a couple of times when it was so blatant that he really couldn't do anything but. In that last 10-15 minutes he went to water and let the pressure of the crowd and the fear of showing some spine affect his performance. I got sick of screaming at the TV about how the Storm were milking penalties in possession by kicking and fighting in the tackle and conveniently rolling over the tackler making it impossible for them to get out of the way. They played him like a b!tch a couple of times on that one. Compare that to the amount of times the Storm lay over the tacklers or made second efforts, I could hear the gimp saying "movement" "get off him" etc, but he didn't have the guts to put the whistle to the mouth when it still dragged on for another 4 or 5 seconds, why bother saying anything. As for the walking off the mark when playing the ball, God they must have done that on at least 30 or 40 % of the rucks.......not one penalty.
I know you are a level headed observer, but I thought he was poo. The Storm will be hard to stop for as long as the referees are too gutless to police the ruck.
Anyway, well done the the Warriors. The Storm now have two tough games ahead, Brisbane at Suncorp and then the Sharks. Let's hope they get the absolute sh!t bashed out of them...they deserve it.
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You could well be correct mate, but it just stuck out to me that the Storm were actually getting penalised and not winning a count, i probably got carried away with that
Cam Smith could have been pinged nearly every tackle, and he did miss a lot, but i was just happy that he pinged them for some of the filth i guess