Wayne Bennett has declared he is a fan of referees enforcing the rules and has warned the game that it must not "blink" in the wake of outrage over the spate of penalties blown in the Cronulla Sharks v Melbourne Storm clash on Friday night.

The majority of Bennett's press conference ahead of Sunday night's showdown between the Brisbane Broncos and Gold Coast Titans was taken up discussing the refereeing of games in the opening rounds of the Telstra Premiership with the 33 penalties blown at Southern Cross Group Stadium the major talking point.

Bennett made the point that the rules of the game had not changed, rather the approach to policing them had.

It was a message reinforced recently by NRL CEO Todd Greenberg who said the referees were doing exactly what they had been asked to do with regard to cleaning up the play the ball and making sure players were onside.

"Everyone plays a different style of footy and some teams live on the edge and some teams want to break the rules, and some teams want to get away with as much as they possibly can," Bennett said.

"Other teams are happy to play within the rules but that is not for me and you to decide. That is for the officials to decide, and that is what is happening out there.

"They have made a decision obviously that they are going to clean the play the ball area up and they are going to clean up the 10 metres, and I'm a fan of it because it is going to give us a better game."