Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has blown up on the refereeing in his aspect’s 26-18 loss to the Raiders.
The Eels have been on the improper aspect of a 10-3 penalty depend, a statistic which Arthur didn’t miss.
“Nothing went our way. Nothing went our way,” Arthur mentioned within the post-match press convention.
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“It’s very hard to come down here to Canberra especially when you get a 10-3 penalty count against you.
“We contributed to a few things, not getting enough kicks in and good ball, especially in the second half.
“I don’t know what more I can say to the boys, I thought they were stiff.”
He instantly doubled down, saying: “We can’t be the best in the competition with our discipline and then get penalised ten times tonight.”
“We can’t be told that we’ve got great compliance by the referees, and then we get penalised ten times. It can’t happen.
“I’m never saying anything about the refereeing but I think tonight we were hard done by.”
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He particularly pointed to a Bailey Simonsson hip drop – for which the star was positioned on report however not sin-binned – as a notable refereeing resolution he disagreed with.
Arthur additionally took purpose at a first-half Junior Paulo cannonball sort out, which noticed the star additionally positioned on report.
Arthur mentioned: “It’s not a cannonball. There’s no force in it whatsoever. None.”
Asked if he could be stunned if Paulo copped additional punishment from the NRL Judiciary, he mentioned: “Yeah, 100 per cent. There was nothing in it.”
“We didn’t have any ball. We had 38 per cent possession in the second half. If we got some back to back sets we would have been okay.”
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Arthur would say that he was “very proud” of the Eels believing they “tried their backsides off and were resilient.”
Fox League’s Mal Meninga criticised Arthur for blaming the refereeing, as a substitute believing the Eels coach ought to deal with another points within the sport Parramatta struggled in.
“Blaming some of the decisions for not winning tonight, they only completed about 68 per cent!” Meninga mentioned.
“When you talk about control of the football and winning those moments, they didn’t give themselves too much chance with that sort of ball retention.”
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“That’s a frustrated coach. Grand final team last year, after 11 rounds (this year) four wins, seven losses. And come down to Canberra and think you’re going to be a chance, basically trying to get your season back on track,” Cooper Cronk mentioned.
“That’s one win in their last four. They’re sliding. That’s frustration.”
“You can argue a penalty here and there. Every coach can argue a penalty here and there. But at the end of the day you control your own destiny.”
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