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Why would you not whinge ?
If somebody wrongs you, you retaliate. One of the few ways of appropriately doing this, in this instance, is public whinging. Another is a personal telling off. Des has used both methods.
If people think that there's no repercussions for their actions, they'll continue and maybe go further.
We did do enough to win the Souths game, by a long shot. In the Warriors game the tide was turned because the team didn't react well to dodgy calls. I agree that this needs to improve if we're to win in September but it's a position that we should never have had to be in and a gift that the Warriors had no place in receiving.
This sort of thing is a societal problem, football just gives us a microcosm to study. It's an old fasioned kick in the guts, if you just cop it, the next one will crack your ribs.
Bullsh!t, thats the easy way out.
Analogy - If your boss chips you at work and you don't agree, by your logic the best way to sort it out is to whinge to everyone else about it. Crap - you take it up with the individual i.e. refs boss.
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That's the preferable method, but some people don't react well to being smacked in the face by logic by one person, so you have to get many on board.
I'm all for taking it up with the culprit one on one, in general life. In this instance though, you'll just get told to go away, most likely.
And that Souths game, dude, I don't know what you were watchuing but the ref had way more to do with that result than any player or team on that night.
We had one go the other way, the Penriff game @ Penriff. They somehow won, thankfully, because I would've been rather embarrassed as a Manly supporter to have robbed them in that way.
