Originally Posted by
Dr Channard
As excruciating as it was, I've forced myself to watch it back. As Prez says here, glaring refereeing errors resulted in an 18 point turnaround i.e. 2 perfectly good Saints tries denied and Wire awarded one after a knock on from their winger in the build up. That's quite simply unacceptable, especially in a game of that magnitude. Saints were completely dominant and on top for the first 25 and at 12-0 up, the emphatic Saints victory all were predicting, was nailed on imo. The effect these blatant injustices would have had mentally on both sides is imeasurable. No side would have come back from that, not even one so dominant for 2 years with by far the best attack and defense. It was just too big a mountain to climb, especially in 35 degree heat. Interestingly, by 25 mins or so I only saw us make 3 errors and Wire one or two. The mistakes all came in the second half when heads and the game was gone.
It's like Groundhog Day, as a Saints supporter, suffering heartbreaking defeats in crucial games at the hands of officials. So frustrating but I don't see what we can do about it. I guess just hope that in future we are so dominant even the refs can't beat us.