Another great win. Just gutsy. But where was that in Townsville? At Campbelltown? Just makes it even more frustrating.
Absolutely gutted if that’s how Rapana ends his career with us. He deserved better, and since we’re sending people to the sin bin for complete accidents now, surely Tedesco should have been binned for his vicious elbow to Rapana’s face? (this is a joke for the slow-witted amongst you).
Todd Smith is an absolute disgrace to rugby league. Penalties 12-5 to Roosters. Set restarts 7-2 to Roosters. I don’t expect the count to be even, but in the pre-Vlandys era that would have been a penalty count of 19-7 and it just wasn’t that sort of game.
The inconsistency absolute killed me. Tedesco was clearly within 10 of Sasagi when he collected the ball, who gives a f**k that he stopped running? Collins gets up swinging and somehow that’s on us? The Whitehead “hip drop” - ridiculous.
Then you have the fact that Tedesco was clearly on the ground while held in that last Roosters try but it was play on because reasons. I won’t even mention the ridiculous “high contact” penalty for the knee. As Todd Smith said, “it is what it is”, and today that meant a concerted effort from the ref and bunker to get the Roosters home.
Todd Smith has to be dropped after today, because that was a f**king disgrace.