More likely a monetary lapse if it involved the rorters…

I understand the hard towards the Eels. But mine is much greater for the Chickens. And the simple reason is this. 

Newcastle are finally seeing the benefits of being very, very patient. It is hard. But we need to be patient. Like most of us said. We need to give Ciro a few years to get his team playing his footy

This Newcastle vs South’s game certainly puts that last loss into perspective. We have had a terrible draw. Rarely playing a team out of form or that wasn’t a lot better than us. With any luck next year we start off with Tigers, Dragons, Dolphins and Titans to start the year. 

I guess kneeling a Dogs player in the head after scoring a try must cancel out some dubious 6 against against us?

I am lucky that the free car I got from an anonymous donor had a boot full of gold bars, I am sure that it is all a coincidence.

I imagine all Chooks fans should are as lucky as I was, apparently the donor gives away 24 cars a year.

It’s only fair…

Now I want all the members who think the refs are "fair and above board" to come in here and tell me to stop blaming the refs. There was an obvious agenda today to get the faiders up.

I agree there has been an agenda against the club for a long time .  I guess the refs have some grudge against the club .
I will add can’t wait to see the end of TPJ and Thompson .
TPJ heart just isn’t in it and Thompson just not cutting it . . 

Yeah we copped some BS calls this game.

One play we got a great offload and the ref called it back, later a Canberra player was held for ages and they made ground off an extremely late offload. Not to mention lots of 6 against that were dubious.

Better performance but ultimately some dumb mistakes still cost us.

The Faiders 1st try was off some extremely poor defence on our part.... it was very innerving to watch.

If I haven't mentioned this on this forum before, I will say it now.

This club will only make be forward after we part ways with Burton.

Yeah I did rate Burns,but 2-3 Radiees trys were poor defence from him.

As for the positives Sexton and Edwards played well, King, Kicks, Wardell,Kiraz and Averillo fairly good.

Tommo OK for someone who has barely played a game in the last 2 years 

I agree TPJ is struggling to find motivation.

I honestly thought we got a very good run from the refs today. However I had a few beers before and during. Our side played like shit. 

Two try assists and four goals from Burto. How is he is problem? 

We only had 43% possession and only trailed 7-6 in linebreaks.

For the difference in possession of 14%, 7% was the ref and 7% was dumb errors from us.

The ref had nothing to do with 3-4 soft try's we conceded.

In truth the Raiders were not much better than we were,i t was a even game. One we could have won because the opposition were crap.

The ref wasn't the entire reason why we lost, but he certainly didn't help,

His kicking game still needs a bit of work. The fundamentals are there just needs some polished.

We notice every player error and any dud refs call, because soon or later our defence cracks and we concede a try.

For the disconnect between Burton and Burns in defence, Burns was more to blame. Running and passing Burto was good.

Try not to mention any of the other shit you don’t mention on this forum on this forum…

Mockstradamus in full flight!!!…

It's his defence I was being most critical of.
He did ok in attack. We scored 24 points which is generally ok, although nowdays you probably need 5 tries to win games.

But his defence is attricious and has been all year. He's a liability to the point where his teammates have no faith in him and get pulled in and creating gaps or overlaps. 

Really needs work on his defence in the line. 

I stand by my comment.

It's up to him to prove me wrong.
And not for 1 game in 6.
Although I probably take that kind of return from him these days.....

How good were these guys…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELaBzj7cn14

Hey Marki, I see that the media and fans are up in arms over the umpiring howler over the weekend. Better let your mates know that it doesn't matter how much scrutiny they have in the game, it means jack schitt if you have a fvckw!t like V'landys in charge.

Agree. Like most halves his defence is poor. I’m confident he can improve. 

Yeah, in a high scoring game like AFL, an error like that usually gets covered by many other scoring plays -except when it's late in the game.

In NRL it's more critical, and in soccer or cricket it's even worse. 

As I've always said....there will always be a chance that the officials can make an error....you just have to aim to be better to be able to cover for it.

If you are playing to just scrape home in most games, you put yourself in a position to be ripped off

Can we take a vote...Marki or Burton? One to F... off and F... off now.

You must realise however not all games end in a hiding to nothing. Sometimes, just sometimes the opposition is good enough to keep the game tight and the scores close, and when this occurs and it gets to the point where the next team that scores wins, that's when the officials come into play.

I vote for Burton

It's not like he's really here anyway. 

I don't know what to say mate except I live in hope they that do their best and if they make an error, it's an innocent one and nothing sinister.

I do however believe that it is human nature to subliminally side with the team that plays the game better. It's not intentional cheating, but rather an autonomous reaction in the heat of the moment. 

We certainly get the rough end of the stick..