The situation has already been noted to the powers that be in charge based upon his treatment in the last match namelt before he had even touched a player or a ball he was "put straight" by the official about his conduct at which point he turned to the bench with his hands open as if to say "what have i done" , the water carrier then went on to find out what was said and to say that the referee was " put straight " after that is an understatement as it is official bullying of a player as he was told in no uncertain terms!!!
As the ref was clearly told "you are not entitled to warn a player about conduct that may or may not happen, you are only empowered to deal with what actually does happen"
It is however hindering Hame I can tell you and to be fair he has not been anywhere near as bad as the newtons etc of this SL season but because of his stature etc he is being targetted by officials .
He will come good again , and to be fair against Cats he had an outstanding match

You was making a good point until you started crying about Clint, diddums

good not outstanding by any mean

Simple for me, if he does anything wrong he'll be penalised, if he doesnt he wont. If his confidence is shot from the ref picking on him maybe he should go tell the teacher?

Mark O'Meley arrived in this country with a pretty fearsome reputation built up over the past 10 years in the NRL as an enforcer. He even came clutching an alledged hit-list. Yet he has had no trouble with our referees since his arrival.
The reason is that he plays the game as hard as he can and as close to the edge as he can, but doesnt overstep it.
Lauaki on the other hand gets involved in so much daft avoidable stuff it is only natural that the refs will be keeping an extra close eye on him.

That may be the case, but they should at least let him get on the pitch and get involved in the game before they start to pick on him.

See what you are saying but Hames game and Marks game are totally different, and lets go back three years ago when Mark was punching everything above grass he had his own parking spot at the officiary in Brisbane!!! he was there so often .
Hame is 4 years younger than Omeley and with less experience than Mark so he is also on a learing curve and he is learning too day by day but his game is to smash people either with or without the ball, and despite w few youtoobe vids that is not omeleys game now, his game now is a brick wall in defence and direct drives going forward, where as Hame is a smasher on defence and the jinking george dancing feet style in offence!!

as for his hit list , thats laughable that any pro would have such a thing and only made for good reading on here, albeit he does not like Leon one bit !!

Maybe Expro meant Terry and not Clint. Both bad eggs thoughicon_smile.gif

Trouble with Lauiki was (and this is from limitted ky matches and the derby) that if an oppo niggled him he would come up swinging. I think it was his first match for you against the Bulls, he'd only been on 5 mins and had 3 minor skirmishes and only by luck of the call Glenn Morrison sent off and he stayed on. Other teams have spotted this being his achiles heel and will target it, as was seen in the derby.

He will be on a learning curve and maybe the ref warning him (albeit a bit harshly) will help him progress down this curve. If as you say he is a smasher then thats what he needs to do, legally and he will only get pats on the back. If the other player takes exception, laugh at him, it means the smash worked. His 'reputation' will soon go away once the refs realise he's got the message.

good post