Roosters coach Trent Robinson has lamented a 6-0 second half penalty depend and some of suspect refereeing selections in opposition to his aspect throughout their 18-16 loss to the Sea Eagles.
Robinson mentioned that regardless of every little thing that went in opposition to the Roosters, he labelled the efforts of his gamers as “epic” and believes they’re constructing again to their greatest.
“I felt like we were really strong tonight for nearly all the match. I felt like we were really dominant, our combinations were there and I felt our defence was really pressuring,” Robinson mentioned in his post-match press convention.
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However, he mentioned his staff’s work was minimize out for them eluding to the shortage of assist from the referees and due to that, the Roosters needed to do “a lot of defending”. Manly received the possession battle 57% to 43%.
“We weren’t going to get anything, you could see there wasn’t going to be any call or assistance there. I think it was 6-0 penalty count in the second half so we were going to just spend time on our goal line defending,” Robinson mentioned.
“We weren’t going to get anything coming off our line and we just had to defend. And we kept doing it except for one, we just missed that one to finish it off.
“The guys were epic, they kept fighting and they fought for everything there right until the end but we just missed execution. We did have an opportunity to win and it would have been great to nail that.”
Robinson was requested by reporters on his ideas of the Corey Allan move to Daniel Tupou that was known as ahead with 4 minutes remaining.
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Tupou was into area down the left edge after catching the move with the Roosters down by two, nevertheless referee Ben Cummins thought it travelled ahead.
Robinson disagreed with the decision after which identified a pair extra cases all through the sport he believed his aspect was exhausting completed by.
“Well Casey (Badger) the touch judge didn’t call it… she said it was fine,” Robinson mentioned.
“Ben (Cummins) called it from a poor angle and called it forward but the touch judge that was right in line didn’t call it.
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“We had a ball-plant from Cherry-Evans that led to them scoring a try. They changed the rule at the start of the year.
“We had the drag down of Joey Manu at the start … 6-0 in a second half plus those calls, you know, that’s why I felt like we were awesome.
“The boys kept dusting themselves off and kept attacking and defending what they had to defend but in the end, we weren’t good enough.”
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