Now comes the excuses

[Keith]

The raiders got some good calls , dropped ball twice and penalty raiders.
the 6 again was Cummins wishful thinking.
Raiders got a keg up for most of the game, Roosters were too good .

[The Marshall]

Fuuck ‘em

Agree plenty of shit calls came our way and ultimately the call was correct, for once we never got shafted.

[mightyrooster]

I loved the way Robbo responded to Thurston’s questioning on that so called game deciding call.

[The Marshall]

I loved the way Robbo responded to Thurston’s questioning on that so called game deciding call.

Yes loved it

[Easts to Win]

We are the champions ! Suck s**t to all the Rooster haters .

[zac]

Cummins decision to signal six again without getting confirmation was a shocker. But not to have reversed it would have been a bigger shocker.

But more important shockers were Tapine's defence v Verrills for the first try and Leilua's bombing of a try just before Coops came back on.

[mattyh]

a better team would have scored against us

[ism22]

Thurston claims “he has never seen a ref change a call like that” yet I’m almost positive that I’n the second half they knocked it on and the ref called it a knock on only to change it to a penalty 3 seconds later.

Yeah they did against us... then he whinged, the bunker got involved and they overturned it.

Cowboys went on to win, knocking us out.

Edit:
I'm disappointed that the media's buying into this whole 'Raiders really won but for bad refs' story. We just went back to back and IMO deserve to be able to celebrate the feat. Instead:
- For the second time in history, MoTM was awarded to a guy from the losing team (despite us being up all game... at no time were the Raiders winning).
- The focus is on the refs rather than the Raiders' letting our deadly left edge stroll 80m down the field then link with the 2019 Dally M winner.
- We don't get the credit we deserve for just rolling with the punches and playing with what we're given. We had the Raiders on the ropes then in quick succession Maubs got injured and Cronk got binned (IMO unfairly). Instead of whinging, Cronk took full responsibility, shook everybody's hand, said sorry and we lifted. IMO that 10m was the defining point of the game. As soon as Cronk stepped back onto the field I knew we'd won it.

Ricky's post-match cry was a disgrace. Saying 'oh I'm not blaming them... IF IT WAS WRONG I'm sure they didn't mean to get it wrong... refs don't go into games trying to make wrong calls... but it's disappointing if it was wrong...' is a disgrace. In substance he's ostensibly said that a bad call lost him the game (rather than poor defence from his team). Sorry but supposed bad call is one thing. Letting a team stroll 80m down the field to score is nothing to do with the refs. And don't we know that all too well as roosters fans!!!! Why does everybody think we focus so much on defence?

[rented tracksuit]

Canberrans are already calling for a police investigation, believing they were robbed.

They got plenty of help tonight and couldn’t capitalize. That’s their own fault. If the refs were against them they wouldn’t have even made the GF. They got plenty of help throughout the year and have nothing to complain about.

[rented tracksuit]

Cummins decision to signal six again without getting confirmation was a shocker. But not to have reversed it would have been a bigger shocker.

But more important shockers were Tapine's defence v Verrills for the first try and Leilua's bombing of a try just before Coops came back on.

Exactly. They robbed themselves. Excuses don’t win premierships.

[Keith]

I loved the way Robbo responded to Thurston’s questioning on that so called game deciding call.

Yes good on Robbo , Thurston was frothing at the mouth , Robbo shut him up pretty quick , made me proud.

[sparrow]

Jonathan Thurston a classless ******. Just don't know how Ch 9 have him there. So glad Robbo stunned him with his response..

[rented tracksuit]

Jonathan Thurston a classless ******. Just don't know how Ch 9 have him there. So glad Robbo stunned him with his response..

Havnt seen it. What was his response?

[can'tkeepagoodcoqdown]

It wasn't a bad call- THEY GOT THE CALL RIGHT!!! If the Raiders got 6 again and scored it would have been on the back of a WRONG CALL!

Suck it Ricky!

It was right in front of me... the over rule was the CORRECT decision

[QWERTY]

First off, B2B woooo!!!!
secondly, the whole six again kerfuffell was the correct call done in the worst possible way, in that we deserved the ball, however the refs blunder was awful, especially from a lead ref.