I also don't have a dog in this fight, but here's some 2 cents...
I've spent a Federation season with a team that was by far the worst disciplined in the league. We'd get a red card every other game at best. Every now and then we'd implode and just have 3 players sent off in one hit. We actually didn't get many yellows. Just stupid reds usually from reacting to players or swearing at refs. The other teams knew it and would play for it.
The one thing that the whole club agreed on though: the refs hated us. Being on the outskirts of the city, the refs always had to travel extra far to ref us. We were outsiders. That was part of the reason we decided they hated our club and we generally built from that. Also a few people on the board had certain personality issues with the refs, etc etc.
At the end of the day, having played in the team and reflecting a few years later it had nothing to do with refs and everything to do with a shocking attitude. From the top down everyone blamed the ref. And when the board (through club room talk), the coaches (through the dressing room), and the supporters (through yelling stupid shark at refs) all believe it the players live to it as well. It gives them a reason for brain explosions that we as players were never held accountable for.
But yeah. I don't know Olympic from a bar of soap. I don't know who the board or coaches are. What I can tell you is that the chance there is actually a referee conspiracy is zero. Stop blaming everyone else. Look in the mirror. Learn some gamesmanship. Learn some composure. Get your head in the game.
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Not sure how, but your dog is in the semi-final...
"Stop blaming everyone else.
Look in the mirror.
Learn some gamesmanship.
Learn some composure.
Get your head in the game."
Not blaming everyone else, just the NZ anti-immigrant culture.
We all look in the mirror many times a day - in my case not liking at all what I am seeing.
Not worth replying really, but, ok, no different to any other club in Welly/NZ. A general statement that implies " We are better than you - if you are not us, your gamesmanship is poor."
Again, not worth debating.
Again, no contribution.