Wow, 84000 plus creating a brilliant atmosphere, if only the game. was as popular over here, I suppose we can dream. Great game at half time nothing in it.

Good to see the officials ruining the games over there as well.



Waved six again so Canberra don’t kick and changes his mind which allows Roosters to get possession, go up other end and score.

Not to mention the decision to give head and feed to Roosters for their first try after the ball hit the trainer. Canberra were in possession of the ball havign executed the charge down adn Whitehead was clean through.

Don’t forget about the ridiculous sin binning of Cronk though. Professional foul my .

He tackled the man off the ball two metres from the try line. Sin bin all day long.



You don’t get special treatment because you’re Cooper Cronk.

Hardly tackled him though did he? IMO, penalty was fair, sin binning was harsh.

You probably need to watch it again.

Hardly tackled him? Managed to knock a bloke about 4 stone heavier than him to the ground. Sin binning was harsh but in that situation he potentially stopped a try from being scored. Say a split second later he isn't able to grip him as well and he has caught the ball - he potentially goes over for a try. That's why it was a professional foul. If it would have happened on the halfway line of coruse it wouldn't have been a sin bin.

The Canberra player had the ball when he was “knocked to the ground”. I’ll concede that Cronk had made contact before the ball reached him but didn’t actually tackle him without the ball. Which is why I thought the penalty was fair and sin bin harsh. I’ll watch it back though.

Great game and a great atmosphere which was slightly ruined by the officials with that poor call of waving six to go, Also what i did notice was blatant holding on at the tackle every time over here penalty ever time.

Cronk made contact with the arm of the raiders prop just before the ball reached him which caused him not to collect the ball hence the knock on, penalty for me not a sin bin, the waving for 6 to go was disgraceful at any level and then went down the other end and scored, a massive call.

Correct. I thought Roosters were very lucky to get away with a few holding on calls. There was one glaring moment in the second half when Riaders were coming out of their own 30 when a Roosters player cjust stayed in the ruck and it slowed it down so much that the dummy half took an age to get the ball and he was tackeld about 2 metres behind where he picked it up. It was the most blatant pen you will see for not clearing the ruck but no penalty was given. I notice this week in week out in NRL reffing they seem to ignore the rules of the game so that the game "can flow". Roosters' defence was great and a nice bit bit of class for their second try.