We got reffed out of the game!

[The DoggFather]

We didn't need to be reffed out, we played ourselves out of the game.

Newcastle didn't win, we just lost it ourselves.

 

[LoneWolf]

Agree to some extent but I think there was 16 points scored from our mistakes .
2 Cotric drop balls
1 Allen drop ball + set reset

This team will be an improvement from last yr but you can already see there’s too many passengers

Our go forward was an issue tonight and will be all year

Defense: appalling . Soft tries have them lead and ref took over from there

 

[FreshSoulL]

Mate. The calls from the refs absolutely put us on the back foot.
honestly tho - we didn’t help ourselves.

 

[Heckler]

This new version of Rugby league is disgusting win lose or draw. Awful rules.

 

[bullanth]

The refs knew what they were doing early on

Mate we were awful,20 mins in we were gassed,our forwards with the exception of heatherington,were completely dominated,I’m trying to find positives from the game,cotric Flanagan tried hard,the only good thing,there’s next week.

 

[The DoggFather]

You got to stop abusing me and living in denial.
We were outplayed, simple. We were scattered, we couldnt hold onto the ball or get back to our mark.
i saw it with my own eyes.
Just accept reality and stop creating your own comfort zone of it being some conspiracy by refs against the dogs. This isnt like the stolen trump election, this is just bad play.
i called it this morning in my other thread. It just played out.

We didn't get outplayed, the naughts would of lost to all the other teams tonight apart from maybe the Broncos.

You actually need to play to be outplayed.

 

[Rodzilla]

forget about the set restarts and the cover up by giving some free ones to us, the smoking gun is the slap out ruled as a knock on

 

[kaluah8123]

Chicken/egg
Poor ball control/ref

 

[Chris Harding]

All you want from the ref is equal treatment, no one in their right mind can say Cummins did that tonight, appalling display of reffing one team. Despite lack of possession we scored 3 tries, which last year was big deal.

Having said that, we made too many mistakes and didn't muscle up, also the lack of familiar combinations was pretty clear.

Reserve judgement, plenty of good signs, I don't have us winning in the first 5 rounds. But after that, with Thommo back, the forwards starting to get to grips with what they need to do, and combinations starting to form, we might start to see more.

Yep. First time together in the big game.
Up against a team of bigger forwards and probably the best half in the game.
Too many simple errors, handing possession back in our own half.
The Knights had almost 70% possession in the first 20 of the second half, and that made a difference.
Despite that, there were good things to take from the game. Flanagan has already made a difference; and we looked better in attack when we had the ball in their half.

Barrett did say it would be shaky in the early part of the season. If he doesn't do a Pay, and make immediate wholesale changes, we might develop into a competitive side this year.

 

[Chris Harding]

forget about the set restarts and the cover up by giving some free ones to us, the smoking gun is the slap out ruled as a knock on

And a slap out by a second player in the tackle results in a Knights try in the corner. I didn't know two man strips were part of the new rules.

Knights had their hands all over the ball every tackle.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Kinda. The reffing cost us badly but I think we lost mainly due to our pathetic defence.

 

[Psycho Doggie]

Yep. First time together in the big game.
Up against a team of bigger forwards and probably the best half in the game.
Too many simple errors, handing possession back in our own half.
The Knights had almost 70% possession in the first 20 of the second half, and that made a difference.
Despite that, there good things to take from the game. Flanagan has already made a difference; and we looked better in attack when we had the ball in their half.

Barrett did say it would be shaky in the early part of the season. If he doesn't do a Pay, and make immediate wholesale changes, we might develop into a competitive side this year.

The Knights might make the 8, depending on injuries, but can't see them doing much, the strong teams already know how to carve them up based on the Dogs tries and line breaks tonight.

While we all want to see our beloved Doggies killing it, and will hope for the best, the reality this season will likely be an improved attack (already visible) and a half dozen or so decent wins to celebrate.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

The refereeing was bad, really bad, and didn't help. But we were our own worst enemies also. I'm sure a certain amount of it is so many new players trying to blend into a cohesive unit. That will improve once they get more games together.

On a side note, the gleeful bias of the Fox commentary was nauseating.

 

[GDR]

Execution was poor , however the ref definitely helped to keep us on the back foot..

 

[Haddaway]

I don't care what anyone says, getting 6 or 7 six against to zero in a row will take its toll.

 

[Chris Harding]

The refereeing was bad, really bad, and didn't help. But we were our own worst enemies also. I'm sure a certain amount of it is so many new players trying to blend into a cohesive unit. That will improve once they get more games together.

On a side note, the gleeful bias of the Fox commentary was nauseating.

So was the mouth breathing crowd every time we had the ball.

 

[Bull Terrier]

we get even share of 6 again we win. 60 min gone before we get our first while knights had 6. by that time our boys were buggered game over. we made mistakes sure we were in it till cummings took over

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

So was the mouth breathing crowd every time we had the ball.

They definitely played their part in getting the desired result.

 

[bullanth]

Kinda. The reffing cost us badly but I think we lost mainly due to our pathetic defence.

What defence,but I’m positive we will get better,.

 

[Cappuccino]

putting aside some of our issues, ive got no doubt in my mind that we were intentionally reffed out of the game early on and we could not recover from it.

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