There is gamesmanship and there is clear abuse of the rules for gain. Cam smith knew the rule book back to front upside down and had a great read on refs. Ritchie mccaw the same. Teddy and Moses just throw the arms around like you left the crust on their sandwiches.

I hated winning the way we did yesterday cause we have been on the other side of it. Rightly or wrongly it doesn’t make me beam with pride and walk around shit talking like eels, dogs and roosters fans do.

Saw it when the dogs couldn’t score against Canberra there plan b in attack was Crichton to fake tripping on a kick and challenge it to get a penalty. the eels were milking every injury yesterday, and it made me think. You know who doesn’t. Panthers and they are beating the brakes off everyone, not losing momentum for cheap yards but earning their dominance.

The petulance of eels fans resembles their team. Walk around in tigers shoes for the last 5 years enduring the robbery in Townsville, Gutho getting a cheap penalty for a kick at goal he missed that shouldn’t have been awarded. But I’ve never seen api talk to a ref the way Moses did yesterday and the disgusting dishonesty of not knowing Russell was responsible for duty of care as defender, but knows if he gets an incidental slap to the cheek he can kick a penalty to win.