Sounds like a good idea to me. Pity we didn't continue because Saints decided to copy the blueprint for success...
Long, Joynt, Sullivan. Wilkin, Aussies etc

Good point, well made.

Hull KR got EVERY decision at Knowsley Road this season. So there goes your theory that 'little' teams dont get the decisions.

You mean you didn't get let off with things like blatant offside and markers not square and it cost you

So little that we're second in SL and in the QFs of the CC, oh and did I mention beating Saints at KR

Yes, you are a small club.

Probably the worse conspiracy of them all is a saints team with Ganson on the field losing to Wigan at Murrayfield. This will give him the all clear to ref the Leeds and St Helens final at Old Trafford. If this is the case then I shall never ever watch super league again whilst this corruption is in force.

Yes, coming from the person that has no purpose, oh and arnt you Saints fan aswell

This thread makes me feel almost as depressed as the next revelation about MPs' expenses fiddles.

Can someone kill it please ?

It is why GB will always struggle against the Aussies. The play the ball is so slow.

Saints though are quite possibly the most disgaraceful team to grace the field in todays game, and have been for the past 15 years.

What is lovely when this happens, is the indignation of (some) Saints RLfans. 'But... but... WE'RE [iSAINTS[/i!' My favourite was the last gasp try at NCP last year, ruled out because a player had been tackled. It was correct, but the sort of thing that 'big' teams so often get away with. Even watching the DVD back I half expected it to be given.

Success can spoil fans and, as has been pointed out, Saints have had a lot of success in recent years.

We are the mighty Saints and we have a God given right to win everything

Nooooo.
That's Wigan. The bestest and mostest famous club in the World.

Indeed.

And what about the Aussies losing the first test circa 2001 when Bob Connolly reffed?

It was a deliberate ploy to ensure that their gripe against the referee carried more weight and that they could ensure that the future decisons went in their favour.

Thaler gave Saints the game. Things like this [inever[/i used to happen when John Holdsworth was around.

I propose that we look at referee's expenses.

Correct.

At this thread.

Lock it. Embarrasment to yourselves some of you etc Anti-Saints fans, unbelievable scenes.

How sad another "Waaaaaa waaaaa dem cheaton Serrnts" thread.

Grow up children.

You've got the refs, now you want the moderators. Greedy



Seriously though, does anybody doubt that big teams (not just Saints, for whom bigness and the attendent bias is, in the long view, fairly new and almost certainly temporary) get more decisions than would be expected if refs were impartial automatons?

I thought rovers were the biggest team in the world?

What was your statement on McIlorum?



I see st. pete must have got detention at primary school.

One of the biggest names (18 letters

). I don't even especially begrudge Saints the odd decision, unless it is against us

. They chuck the ball about and have earned their many recent trophies on a pretty level playing field. When and if we have a few years in the sun, we'll get a few more 50/50s, as we no doubt did in the mid-80s.

It's just a fact that ref's favour teams who play in red and white, other clubs need to get over it

That's why we won at Murrayfield?

Now you see .... simples!