Now comes the excuses

[The Sack]

Suck it up Raiders ya big sooks. Calls like that happen in every game. No difference to a referee calling play on or waving play on, only to get a call from the touchie or other referee to say that there was a forward pass or another indiscretion picked up. The whistle gets blown, they bring it back and play continues. This is no different.

Go the Roosters! Three in a row coming up. This is one special team even without Cronk next year!

[rented tracksuit]

How can they moan and groan about the call and the ‘possible’ outcome from it when they were allowed to benefit from an even bigger blunder against the Storm. Let me tell you, if that call didn’t go their way and the Storm scored, they would not have made the GF being on our side of the draw. They should count themselves lucky to even taste a GF.

[Ray Stehr]

Back to back. The end.

Here endeth the lesson.

[easts4eva]

If Ricky and raiders and bandwagon souffs supporters are going soley pin the loss on #6again, then they seriously need to sit through the 80 mins again. In the last 6 finals Easts have conceded only 1 try per game...they needed to come to the table with more attack wise.

[Maxy Walker]

Bottom line - played em 3 times this year best em 3 times. They’re totally clutching at straws with that 6 to go rubbish.

And JR is a massive tool with his question to Robbo and Robbo’s reply was awesome.

[TheLoneRooster]

Why are they crying about 6 again , were the 25 sets before that not enough. the final 30 minutes of ball not enough. Needed another rooster sin bin eh?

the haters can never let Roosters enjoy victory can they, always moaning about coulda woulda shoulda if but maybes.

fact is, they blew it. fact is another set guaranteed nothing.

All the Classless raiders apologists living in fantasyland, and ricky, take a leaf out of bellamys book when storm didn't come out and whinge about vunivalu 's foot out bad call v Raiders. Storm knew they should have done more to win that game, and didn't come out playing the victim like you lot.

Bravo chopstiks, very well said. Bottle this form of yours mate and bring it back next year.

[TheLoneRooster]

Loving the theme of this thread and the quality of posts from my fellow Rooster tragics. This mighty team did us proud and will simply have to make do with pleasing us, and making history by going back-to-back - I think they'll manage.