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"You have to ask the referees that, but clearly we don't think we get any favours from the referees at all. They've got a tough job and I don't know a top referee that doesn't go out there to just ref it the way he sees it. "I think if you look at the penalty counts [and] yellow cards last year, we were one of the top yellow-carded teams in the world so I'm not sure how this soft on us [notion] comes to fruition."Foster added that New Zealand have faith in the judicial system and that they're trying to get everything right within the legal boundaries of the game.
"Sometimes bad technique takes over so, as a coaching group and as a team, we're always trying to coach good technique and trying to get everything within the legal bounds of the game. "But it's a dynamic game, isn't it, and things happen and that's what referees are there for. That's what the laws are for and I guess that's what the judiciary are there for and, overall, we've got a lot of confidence in that system."
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