I really don't know where Daniel Anderson and these referees are taking the game. The NRL talks to broadcasters and say don't bag the referees. There are referees there that are interpreting a different game of football than other referees. It's just not consistent. They are the better team in the first half, the scoreboard says so, and all of a sudden it's 7-0 in penalty count. There were probably seven penalties there and probably more that we could have been penalised for. I'm not blowing up about that. But there's now way they were that clean. It's just wrong. It was unfair. But until the NRL gets it right, I just feel sorry for these blokes. That out there tonight was very, very obvious. Q: Did it decide the game Ricky? A: What do you think?

Q: But individually, you thought they were penalties? A: I'm not saying they weren't penalties. Over the last two weeks we've thrown two passes that were ruled forward but they were just too good for the refs. That wasn't a forward pass tonight to young Kelepi scoring under the posts. The pass was too good for the ref. Talk about first grade standards. Everybody has to get to first grade standards. We've got to sit here and front the media and I try to be as honest as I can. Get those referees in here to talk about their bullshit errors. Ask the refs about that. Ask Daniel Anderson about that. He'll give you the sheet we have to read that I don't understand. Obviously I'm not that intelligent. With their reviews, I'm no further advanced in regards to reading their review. Nobody has got any ownership of decisions about referee performance. It's right or wrong. And if it's wrong, it's not first grade standard. Put him back to Under 20s. Q: What do you do from here Ricky? Do you follow this up? A: No, I'm happy with the boys. We were the better team out there. We should have won tonight. We're improving. We got beat 50-0 two weeks ago. We handled it. We copped it on the chin. Tonight should have been our game. You can't have a seven-nil penalty count and win a game of football. And it shouldn't have been seven-nil.

Q: On Friday night, the referees missed the tackle count against the Broncos and North Queensland. Has the standard gone backward from last year? A: It's not for me to make a judgement. I've got to look after a footy team. And I feel sorry for them. We're growing. We're a young team. We're easy to penalise. We're easy to jump into. I'm up in the box and I'm hearing two referees saying ‘hand on ball, hand on ball', yet no penalty. Jarryd, Reni go to the ref and ask for an explanation. They get an explanation in frigging Spanish. There's no explanation. The game is turning into a surrender, dive on the ground, play the ball. It's getting into the Super League era. It's going backwards. They're not machines. You can't hit the deck, play the ball, play again, no matter how quick you are. It's an interpretation of the game. It's putting too much pressure on referees, referees are making mistakes. Out there tonight, there is no way my team is that ill-disciplined. Q: (To Reni Maitua, also at the press conference) Reni what was the talk among the players? A: (Stuart answers) You can't get an answer out of the referees. I've asked Reni.

Q: I was thinking more of the players themselves, what they were saying to each other to keep up morale. A: We work on it every week at training. You are going to be penalised. You're easy to penalise. These poor buggers have been kicked like brown dogs over the past two years. They're just easy to penalise. Penalise Parramatta, penalise Parramatta. It's happened for the past six weeks. We've got to keep learning and growing under adverse situations as to how they referee us. That wasn't right out there tonight. Q: The more high profile teams, Melbourne etc, get treated differently? A: I didn't say that. Q: You used the word ‘unfair' earlier though. Do you want to clarify that?

A: There's a lot of other words I'd like to use too. Unfortunately, the powers to be will come down and say that's a $10,000 fine there. They take the attention away from what the problem is. The problem is two football teams out there busting their arses in regards to preparing all week and have it decided not by the two football teams. That's what I get the shits about. Loading Q: You're saying they (the referees) are making mistakes, or they have a pre-conceived… A: I have to be careful what I say. I'd rather not answer that.