We were lucky when the Roosters were penalised for running behind a player when they scored before half time. I expected them to get the usual referee call of fair try - but we got the penalty.
Go back to the GF win against Manly, and see where we were awarded a try on the seventh tackle. Nobody realised we had an extra tackle until well after the game- not the Dogs, not Manly. The media was full of it the next day, and didn't Bob Fulton blow up! You'll also see we were denied a fair try- the commentators couldn't believe it was not awarded. Manly were well and truly out of the game, yet their fans reckon the seven tackle try "robbed" them.
Go back further to our win against Balmain at the brand new SFS, where Terry Lamb took out Hanley with a deliberate head high tackle. It was payback for the way Hanley took out our fullback. Baa should have been sent off, yet the referee saw it as OK, and not even a penalty. So we can't always say the refs are against us.
I've always seen those incidents as balancing the bad calls we'd copped all year.