he never reported every thing I said Tom,in no way is the ref to blame for the loss. It was a great game with a quality side Eastern Suburbs the deserved winners and not do I blame the chances we missed by my quality players who were outstanding I thought.
im a big fan of things balancing out and we did get a bit of luck against Western.
Regarding the ref it is common knowledge that we don't see eye to eye . His assistants had an ok game .2 weeks back we were told a neutral ref from Dunedin would be reffing , he at least would have been strange to both sets of players . Look I could look at it with a patch on but I'm sure neutrals that I have spoken too all had similar views. And if the decisions were correctly given that's not a given the result would have changed. But the game is over and Eastern are top side deservedly in the next round.it was good to see a lot people outside Tech come and support the lads ; even Albi and Thomo
Look forward getting behind the coastal girls in flying the flag for the region
John hadn't read the press til this morning. My post was in regards to couple previous comments