The players need to use this positively to drive them
Work harder in games and training to ensure we're too damned good in as many games as possible for officials to be able to adverselyaffect them
React the right way, positively, keeping our focus, our cool and our heads, gaining greater determination, strength and conviction in all aspects of our play following any controversial or plain wrong decision
Be a lot more savvy if we do make an accidental late or what could look a bad tackle but really wasn't or if a player we've not touched dives an we're already on a yellow, just carry on as if nothing has happened as it is what it actually is, move away
I think that last aspect is where we've missed Milner and Hendo's influence on the other players, when you react to an accidental late tackle or coming together or a player diving when you're already on a yellow as Mac Allister, Jones and Jota did, it actually makes you look guilty, your reacting like that rather than just carrying on with the game as normal makes some refs think you have done a wrong un or that your reaction gives them an excuse to incorrectly penalise you
Just get up and move, look and start positioning yourself to get on with the game as you would normally
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