I'm not complaining about the number of penalties in our matches, I'm all for refs keeping their whistles out of their mouths, but our games and to a slightly lesser degree Hudds, look to be being played under a different set of rules.
Quite bizarre 

It's crazy that you have to get to the 8th placed club before you find another team in negative figures and 10th before you get a worse one than ours. That can't be right. All bar Hull are net 14 or more better off than us. 

Thanks "Wiggin2" for the table.


That is absolutely dreadful. 


I do hope the club have taken this up with the RFL/Match Officials. 


Thing is if MP or an anyone commented on anything like this they'd be fined for bringing the game into disrepute. Trouble is it is clearly the match officials who are bringing the game into disrepute.


 

You could accept maybe 20-30% difference, though even that is extreme. But the fact we've received 60% less penalties than all teams around us makes it clear that refs are applying different rules to our games than others.


Then you double down with the fact that we are losing penalty counts despite being the league top scorers and have the joint 2nd best defence.


It also has to be direction from the refs structure, rather than at individual level as it's so consistent and I think we've had 4 or 5 different refs so far this year.

Even me, whose moaned my tits off the most about this and started the conversation, is surprised just how bad it all looks in black and white. Fans from all sides always complain about various things and when it comes to refs, you rarely have cold,hard facts and figures to back up your argument but we do. It's shocking and simply not right.

 I watched the House of league podcast with Matt Shaw earlier and he's Leeds bias no doubt but he highlighted how they were just about the best disciplined team in the league before the Wire game and how it made no sense how they were then pinged time and again against Wire, while getting very few pens themselves. If only he had a look at our figures! It's absolutely staggering. HKR in a couple of weeks will be a mess, no doubt about it. I'm going for 7 or 8 to 1.