Poor refereeing will make fans walk away

Found it funny that gallon can blatenly punch miles on the chin and stay on the field but qld are called dirty??? Or even that every decision given to the blues in game 3 wasn't shown again in replay??? What was the final penalty count in game 3??? Sour grapes come to mind when you blues supporters cant except that the maroons are far better and that you 8 to admit it.

I agree about the Australian RL team. Slater, Inglis, Boyd, Gallen, JT, Smith, Thaiday, Hayne etc. All players i find hugely unlikeable. Talented yes, likeable no.

You are missing the point. The defenders could have been laying on sunbeds having a lemonade and it wouldnt matter. Hodges ran behind his man, scored a try. Thats a shepherd.

lol come on mate. even you cant believe that crap.

well said

give it a rest

^ What he said.

Please NSW Whingers stop blaming the referees. the refs never missed a tackle all night. how did G.I get next to the tryline to score his so called controversial try Qld where at the other end of the field at the start of that set of six. Man up in defense NSW and QLD are nowhere near the try line to score. If you show some ticker in defense then Qld will not be near a try line then you won't have to blame a ref for your inadequacies. I've never seen a ref knock-on or take the wrong option in attack either. Harden up!

Cheers for checking it out mate,

The referees don't have any influence on missed tackles, kicking out on the full from the kickoff, missing conversions, failing to find touch with a penalty or fumbling in the play the ball. The same mistakes we (NSW) have been making for seven years. These are mistakes QLD rarely make, but are all far too familiar for a NSW supporter.

Maybe I was wrong about Farah. I just watched the opening 10 minutes of origin 2. I don't recall Farah doing too much there. There was an incident in the 1st minute where it looked like he punched Slater, but after seeing the replay it looked more like he was punching at the ball. I'll have to look over the whole game at some stage.

Well it's just great how after every game we need a news conference with Bill for him to explain how he's come up with his latest decision, especially how he's interpreted the new rules that he himself has introduced. it's fantastic. i just love the refs/

I recall Farah rubbing players' faces in the dirt while they were defenceless on the ground, speaking trash to them while he rubbing their faces in the dirt, grinding his elbow over the tackled players' faces, making second and third efforts in the tackle. That's grubby behaviour.

Gallen called a dark player a "black c***", he grabbed a player by the balls and he continuously whinged after NSW lost last year. That's grubby behaviour. I don't recall him ever being punished.

I don't think you can say that Hodges try means he gained an advantage from running behind the decoy runner. He would have scored regardless of whether the decoy was there as the NSW defenders were standing flat on their heels and did not press forward. It's hard to accelerate from a standing position when your weight is fixated on your heels. You need to be on the balls of your feet and tippy toes to be able to react quickly. I do noo buy the claim that the NSW defender switched off on the Hodges play because they thought it was an obstruction. There were flat on their heels before Hodges ran behind the decoy. A few moments earlier they kicked the ball out on the full. Kicking the ball out on the full and making really poor defensive reads are part and parcel of tiring players who've lost focus. They were tired because Queensland dominated the last 20 mintues of the first half. Give credit where it's due.

League will never self destruct more than when Super League invaded so I'm not too worried. The refs time in the sun will end as will Queenslands and I look forward to it. For now let's encourage refs to be humble and stop trying to be such a big part of the game. Not sure Harrigan is able to do this but I hope he does.

The sad reality for Queensland fans is that like the NRL comp of the last few years their team is infected by the News Ltd Broncos/Storm salary rorting virus and its terminal. Origin in point form - Tainted by the high level involvement of salary rorters and the unwillingness of anyone to face up to this. - Made ridiculous by the ongoing inability of the referees to be in anyway consistent when it comes to key decisions regarding the Qld/NewsLtd Salary rorters. - Cheapened by the eligibility farce that sees a NSW player become the greatest Qld tryscorer of all time (whats that about pride?) and by the 'sweet as bro Blues' - Hijacked by our best mate Munsie with another important 'news' update. - Addicted to rosy coloured nostalgia which helps to gloss over the corrupted beast its become.

Just rewatched the first 5 minutes and didn't see Farah do anything unsavory. I know I probably watch with unintentional blues goggles on, but please list what he has done as you were very unspecific,

I must be one of the very few who think that the video refs nearly always get it RIGHT. I do think that benefit of the doubt (to the attacking team) is not always indicated. The idea that they are manipulated as stated is nonsense. Personally, I think the use of modern technology is great. Dismiss it, and there would be greater controversy.

I'm not saying that there's a conspiracy against NSW. But QLD have had the rub of the green with the refs all year. This series has highlighted a blatant lack of consistency in terms of refereeing standards. This lack of consistency - be it on purpose or by accident - has worked massively in QLD's favour. I could write for ages about how ridiculous the Jennings sin-binning was. It was a complete overreaction on Matt Cecchin's part - a penalty was sufficient punishment (especially in Origin). And given that Thaiday runs in like that all the time in Origin (only difference is that Jennings connected with his punch), and the fact that the referees didn't even address Brent Tate's punch to a defenseless Greg Bird in game 3, it demonstrates a huge lack of consistency with all the more lenient rulings that we've grown accustom to in Origin footy (as opposed to club footy). What about the penalty against Greg Bird for a perfect textbook tackle in game 1. What about the sinbinning of Cooper Cronk in game 2 when a penalty try clearly should have been awarded. Sure, the Blues scored 2 tries while he was off, but what if Cronk had done the exact same thing when NSW trailed by 6 right on full time. His sinbinning and 2 points for a penalty would not have been sufficient punishment. There are 2 incidents that I want to bring to your attention, both of which highlight how a lack of consistent refereeing has cost NSW dearly in this year's series. The first occurred in game 3. I want to compare 2 very similar tackles. One was penalized, one wasn't. Both deserved to be penalized. Let's call them tackle A and tackle B. Now in tackle A, a man of average height (Hodges) sticks his arm out and makes contact with the head of one of the tallest blokes on the field (T-Rex) who was running basically upright. This goes unnoticed and unpenalized by the referees. In tackle B, one of the tallest blokes on the field (T-Rex) makes contact with the head of one of the shortest blokes on the field (Cronk), while he's already falling to the ground. Williams is penalized and QLD get 2 points. I'm not disputing the penalty against Williams. But let me ask you what's worse. A tall guy hitting a short guy high while he's falling, or an average guy hitting a tall guy high while he's upright? Hodges' shot on Williams definitely warranted a penalty. Looking back on a game where the winning margin was just 1 point, the decision not to penalize Hodges proved costly for the Blues. The other incident is the two 'tries' which were controversially awarded by the video referee: the Inglis 'try' in game 1, and the Hodges 'try' in game 3. These two video referee decisions proved costly for the Blues this year. In its own context, I can cop the Hodges try being awarded. I personally have my doubts over its legitimacy as a try, but obstruction is undoubtedly the biggest grey area in the game, so I could cop either decision. However, given the ridiculous 'letter of the law' ruling which saw Sean Hamstead award Greg Inglis the most controversial try in Origin history, I believe that Steve Clarke had to disallow the Hodges try, purely on the basis that it was not a try to the letter of the law. As much as I hate to admit it, the Inglis try probably is a try under the letter of the law. The law is flawed, and it needs to be changed asap. But the damage has been done. Hamstead, on the basis that he was following the laws of the game 'to the letter', correctly awarded the Inglis try. The law relevant to the Hodges try states "The runner cannot run behind his own team and gain an advantage." There's no doubting that Hodges ran behind Ben Hannant, and if scoring a try isn't "gaining an advantage" then I don't know what is. Under the letter of the law, the Hodges try should have been disallowed. The bottom line is that if the referees were consistent in this year's series, then one of these tries would have been disallowed. They obviously weren't consistent, and whether the refs conspired against NSW or not (and I don't think that they did), Queensland was definitely the major benefactor of inconsistent refereeing in this year's series. The Blues have every right to feel hard done by.