yokahontas
Bencher
Mmmmm...................maybe we shouldn't give away more penalties than our opposition. All these threads about how we are being penalised during games assumes that the refs are cheats and we are squeaky clean.
Time to move on guys. I'm tired of the siege mentality. All teams are hard done by from time to time.
That's exactly the point though - when one team in a match is being penalised for 'grey area' things, and the other team involved in that match is not being pinged for exactly the same discretionary indiscretions...that doesn't really count as 'giving away' penalties.
Oh, and it doesn't just happen in Manly games. Watch a few other matches that you have no vested interest in, and observe the way momentum, for example, is deliberately shifted one way or the other by the officials. Particularly interesting to watch what happens in the second half, if one team has managed to rack up a decent lead - all of a sudden their *discipline* goes to crap, and the trailing team magically discover disciplinary perfection? Pull the other one.