karetaker wrote:
final two fingered salute to the Saints as a club from a vindictive one eyed MRP that has dogged us all season. Whether it be bizarre decisions or inappropriate sanctions at key moments the MRP has pretty much ruined our season, ensuring a level playing field of mediocracy and that the returning World Club Champions would be made aware of the way the game is played here in Blighty, far too intense the way Saints beat those antipodean fellows! I know Saint's attack has been poor and our discipline questionable at times (although not to the extreme extent it's been deigned to be by Mr Cullen and his apparatchiks) but the way Saint's were officiated upon their return from Australia, trophy in hand, was akin to the way the Crust Munchers are, ie: totally differently to everyone else! Unfortunately Saints didn't get the positive "Fortress DW" treatment (which permits flops, heads in the face, continual offside and guaranteed reviews if a Pieman accompanied by several team mates, waving their arms and shouting rushes to the referee), oh no, Saints got the RFL, MRP, IMG "Levelling Up Agenda". Week after week fans saw identical offences punished differently, with Saints players usually being on the wrong side of the bans in comparison with identical offences committed by other teams. This despite the fact that statistics invariably showed Saints having the slowest PTB in the league as they were obviously being held down/wrestled with by opponents in a usually vain, but sometimes successful attempt at thwarting Saints go forward.
On a positive note, at least Phil Clarke can enjoy the rest of the year in the knowledge that whomever wins the Grand Final, they will have achieved this milestone without "effectively cheating". He may even push Barrie Mac in the back down a flight of stairs at the SKY after match party, Barrie wouldn't mind, it'd be perfectly legal, wouldn't it?
Because Saints are the only team picked on, they must know we don’t have Mr Cullen in our pocket because if we did why then ban Vaughan. These people are a different breed of human.
Ps got this from Redvee ofc.
Absolute comedy gold, what a bunch they are. Echo the sentiments regarding Brian Nazareth too, absolutely vile.
As an aside it's funny how, in the week of the sports' showpiece event, the arbitrary banning of players has dried up. Nobody from Cats or Pies banned. Funny that.
