Looks like the crowd were absolutely right to boo the refs
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/football/auckland-fc/review-panel-finds-first-adelaide-penalty-against-auckland-fc-should-not-have-been-awarded/TAGMAPRDOVE2RNBDNAVWGQUDKE/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/football/auckland-fc/review-panel-finds-first-adelaide-penalty-against-auckland-fc-should-not-have-been-awarded/TAGMAPRDOVE2RNBDNAVWGQUDKE/
So, Auckland got dicked by the VAR applying "not enough contact" for the cynical shirt pull in the first leg in Adelaide, and got dicked again by VAR ignoring that same rule in Auckland.
Swing those round the correct way and Adelaide is back in 6th and Auckland is 12 points clear - that's fairly significant implications.
AFC also got lucky against MAC, when Moreno clearly felled someone in the box a few weeks back. Clear pen
As someone else said it's just general officiating incompetence, not any anti-Nix/AFC/NZ bias.
I'm sure all the clubs this season would have had their 'we waz robbed' moments. Only if you watch every single ALM game, could you then say there is any bias in favour or against your club.