While I commiserate with the cowboys on their close loss the error occurred in the 7th minute. The cows had 73 mins to overcome the error. All the players interviewed said they didn't even realise the error till after the game. I would feel far more sorry for them had the error happened in the last 5 minutes when they may not have had a chance to overcome the error . Up up Cronulla!
I'm so sick to death of hearing bullshit like this, the point is we shouldn't have had to overcome the error in the first place as first grade referees should be able to f**king count!!! Why do we have to constantly overcome refereeing decisions to to win games of football? We were the better team tonight and the scoreline would've shown that if not for this f**kwit in pink. It makes no difference what minute it happens in, reffing f**k ups costing/gifting teams points and putting one team behind the eight ball shouldn't be something that's accepted as just part if the game.
It was the same last year, "oh but manly were the better team anyway" WHO f**kING CARES! They were
given the game. Maybe the best team on the day doesn't always win, that's what's great about our code, anyone can pull anything out of the bag and produce a win.
But anyway, here we are again about to receive another apology from the referees boss and an assurance that this wont happen again blah blah blah... Heard it all before and it counts for shit in the end, doesn't fix the damage.
Matt Bowen deserved more than for that to be his farewell from the nrl.
