How good were the boys last night. Stuff those who are saying that Souths did not turn up...we did and in a big way. We had to beat the seventeen that they put on the paddock and the two inept fools masquerading as referees. Sitting up high in level 4 east was a revelation. I would say without reservation that Souths were onside on only a handful of occasions..... the rest of the time half their players were loitering in or around our attacking line on the first three tackles after changeover and the rest of the time were a good metre to two metres in front of the referees on the other. It was absolutely frustrating that for the most part we got absolutely nothing from the officials for offside nor for laying on the tackled player. Of course, as is usual the penalty count 'evened up' to be 7-6 in their favour.
We harassed Souths all night and created a situation where they committed errors at crucial times and some of the hits were ferocious. DWZ had a great game, they all did, and every player put in to support their team mates the whole way
Another source of frustration and really laughable were the " recorded" boos coming through the ground loud speakers on several occasions baying for a penalty. How sad it is that the pride of the league...the side who purportedly has over 30k members.... cannot make enough noise themselves during a game. It was so funny watching all the members on the Western side sitting upright on their seats showing no emotion or passion whilst the loudspeakers did it all for them.....
Saw some Souths fans at Krispy Kreme after the game getting some more doughnuts to add to the doughnut of tries that they scored last night. Big fat zero, nada. Three penalty goals only and two of them from ridiculous decisions right under our posts.
Don't even get me started about the shitty sportsmanship displayed by the Souths players, led by one of their trainers, who on both occasions of our kicker attempting a conversion were walking around in his line of vision and moving towards him across the goal line as he ran in to kick. The referee did speak to them about it before the second attempt because our Captain actually went up to him to complain after the first one but that was all he did; speak to them before turning his back and allowing them to walk around.
For a side tyghat has been anchored at or near the bottom for most of 2019 they can be proud of their efforts the last few weeks and I believe that we can win all of our remaining games.
