They can stop making excuses for them for a start. Annersley either needs to address the issues and take the proper corrective action or resign and give the job to someone who will.

We know his job is essentially spin and trying to justify most decisions.

The NRL can't have open slather on the refs.

What is needed is proper professionalism and performance reviews, maybe making it easier to ref games and less subjective. Also tell refs to let the game flow.

There are issues in a sports, but the best officials in any sport are barely noticed and rarely controversial.

If a ref wants to be the star attraction, that is a bad start.

The NRL also doesn't want to admit fans of some clubs have a particular dislike of a specific ref.

Denying the facts doesn't change anything, each game is more wood on the fire.

For semis the best refs need to be picked, for club games it is possible to avoid controversial matchups, if the NRL wants to. Even 1-2 years might be a sufficient circuit-breaker.

But when the rose coloured glasses are on reality is denied, and the NRL pretends there is no issue.

I think what all of us fail to realise is that the majority of people who watch the NRL don’t understand the game like us as fans do. And those people are the ones the NRL want to keep. 

When fans are passionate it is hard to change your perceptions, especially when they are reinforced at regular intervals.

To be clear we might be wrong, but it doesn't make it easy to change our minds.

Ahhh germoulists... Apparently Aussies twats are worth less than other twats...

"Musk has ambitions of owning the social media platform, on which he boasts more than 83 million ($A 112.6 million) followers because he believes it needs an internal revamp"

Russian Twitter Bots are staging a communist uprising... bots of the world unite....

Phoenix Ghost Drone - sure it can blow things up...

But can it bring home a slab of beer?

Asking for a friend, or maybe a casual acquaintance.

This is why rules are set in place. To give us humans direction on our inconsistent, incorrect, error prone decisions. If you have a bias, then you have no right to be controlling a contest because that bias will ensure an unfair advantage to one team. If you get the same ref, making the same "errors", with the same "biases" and the same "inconsistancies" against the same teams on a regular basis and the governing body fails to address the issue, then the governing body had failed in their duty and should be removed from the sport. This is what I consider as incompetence.

On reflection, a lot of Aussie Germoulists do have split personalities, so natural bias IMO.

Win or lose tonight? What are everyone’s thoughts. Is the team capable of winning? 

Knock-on-bor is in the side, there'syour answer.....he gets turned around in defence faster than a turnstile at the Royal Easter show. 

Not ignore it

If we are smart, we will figure it out within the first few sets.

But if we are as dumb as we were last week and constantly push the envelope, ill be calling for the sin bin myself.

I'd rather we focus our attention on improving the way we play than worry about refs bias. Like Micko says, refs are human and will naturally make errors. You just have to be become better and take their errors out the end result. 

I don’t think they are ignoring it. That’s why they keep trying to change things. They just lack the personnel to do so. Finding great refs is very very hard. 

Sh!t refereeing is inexcusable. Most of us have had to take extracurricula courses during our adult working lives in order to continue in our career. If I was as sh!t in enforcing the rules in my chosen field as some of these pea blowing buffoons I wouldn't be in my job for too long I can assure you.

Go Dogs, we sure need a win, will take a mighty effort, but no impossible.

Keep Okunbor well away from Herbie, Ok needs to be better than last time or we are long odds.

Maybe you should sign up to be a ref mate. Even have a run in a local kids game, just to see what it’s like. 

Go the Dogs. I have a good feeling tonight. 

Players are coaches need to do that.

Fans are free to express their opinion.

IMO we have had a rough run under Sutton for close to 10 years. Maybe our team doesn't suit a showpony whistle happy ref.

Refs need to be full time professionals, well trained and well paid.

So a career path for young guys and a decent career for 10-20 years, if they are good enough.

Good start

Micko  been there, done that. I was s schoolboy ref in the late 60's early 70's under the old 4 tackle rule. It is a thankless job both teams hate you and both sets of fans hate you. I'm in my mid 60's now, so way too late for me.

2nd try was great. Nice execution.

Shame about the sloppy play the ball from Okunbor. 

Lol. Fair enough mate. 

We are looking great. Get the ball to Fox quick. That’s what we need. We are winning the battle in the middle. Just need to take our chances. 

We should win from here, it will be a shame if we don't. 

Okunbor is the major worry.

Now THAT was a bullsh!t try.