THE Bulldogs have blown up about refereeing blunders with coach Steve Folkes declaring the eight NRL finals coaches should be "nervous" about a potential refereeing fiasco.
So fed up are the Bulldogs, the club cannot even be bothered complaining to referees coach Robert Finch.
This week's NRL referee review admitted video referee Graeme West bungled with Andrew Ryan's no-try against Manly last Friday night – a try that would have given the Dogs victory.
The same review panel conceded the previous week that a Bulldogs forward pass for a try against Brisbane was not, in fact, forward.
Going into Sunday's away match against Penrith, Folkes is hoping refereeing mistakes do not creep into the finals.
"It (refereeing) is a difficult job but they know that when they take it on," Folkes said.
"At least expect them to get the crucial decisions right – and a try is a crucial decision.
"We've had two disallowed tries in two weeks which the referees' report has later said were tries.
"That has cost us at least two competition points.
"I think all coaches of finals teams will be a little nervous over the next month given the decisions that have been made over the past few weeks."
The NRL referee review claimed Ryan's no-try should have been deemed "benefit of the doubt" and then awarded.
Bulldogs chief executive Malcolm Noad called Ryan's no-try "extremely disappointing", adding: "The week before we had a try pulled back from a forward pass which wasn't.
"We might not have won that match (against Brisbane) but it happened early and could have changed the landscape of the match. We found out later that decision was wrong too.
"We talked about approaching the NRL officially. But it's got to a point where you don't think it's going to result in anything.
Asked was it in the "why bother" category, he replied: "That's fair enough to say."
NRL referees assistant coach Bill Harrigan said his troops were desperately trying to eradicate any errors.
"Coaches can be a little nervous about what may or may not happen, but there's no point – it is out of their control. There's no point worrying about it," Harrigan said.
"The referees and video referees are striving to do the best they can."
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So fed up are the Bulldogs, the club cannot even be bothered complaining to referees coach Robert Finch.
This week's NRL referee review admitted video referee Graeme West bungled with Andrew Ryan's no-try against Manly last Friday night – a try that would have given the Dogs victory.
The same review panel conceded the previous week that a Bulldogs forward pass for a try against Brisbane was not, in fact, forward.
Going into Sunday's away match against Penrith, Folkes is hoping refereeing mistakes do not creep into the finals.
"It (refereeing) is a difficult job but they know that when they take it on," Folkes said.
"At least expect them to get the crucial decisions right – and a try is a crucial decision.
"We've had two disallowed tries in two weeks which the referees' report has later said were tries.
"That has cost us at least two competition points.
"I think all coaches of finals teams will be a little nervous over the next month given the decisions that have been made over the past few weeks."
The NRL referee review claimed Ryan's no-try should have been deemed "benefit of the doubt" and then awarded.
Bulldogs chief executive Malcolm Noad called Ryan's no-try "extremely disappointing", adding: "The week before we had a try pulled back from a forward pass which wasn't.
"We might not have won that match (against Brisbane) but it happened early and could have changed the landscape of the match. We found out later that decision was wrong too.
"We talked about approaching the NRL officially. But it's got to a point where you don't think it's going to result in anything.
Asked was it in the "why bother" category, he replied: "That's fair enough to say."
NRL referees assistant coach Bill Harrigan said his troops were desperately trying to eradicate any errors.
"Coaches can be a little nervous about what may or may not happen, but there's no point – it is out of their control. There's no point worrying about it," Harrigan said.
"The referees and video referees are striving to do the best they can."
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