Class of 96
Bencher
Fair to say that a good proportion of viewers [ and N R L followers ] who will watch the S O O tonight would find it hard to comprehend if the whistle bowers do go a bit more lenient on the penalty front in order to provide a better spectacle and entertaining game and yet have adopted more pedantic and game spoiling high penalty counts in an average N R L fixture so far this season .Greenberg and some of his associates are and have been notorious for just making thing up as they go along with administration matters and regular consistency is practically a foreign term for them. S O O is no doubt a more high profile and higher standard game and event but again if one set of guidelines is going to be applied to this contest to enhance the appeal of it , why should the average and regular N R L club supporter be also denied this better referring approach .
It will be a cruel and unusual punishment for RL fans big Al.
The game will flow with a massive reduction in penalties, giving a surge in optimism among the loyal fans that the game is being returned to common sense and fairness.
Then the club games will roll around for the weekend, the whistle will have found its pea and source of oxygen, and we will all once again be reduced to outraged manic depressives with homicidal tendencies.