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A penalty try awarded with three minutes left on the clock saw the Bulldogs take their Magic Round clash with the Raiders to the death on Friday night.
But as Canterbury coach Cameron Ciraldo and co-captain Reed Mahoney addressed the press after the Bulldogs lost by only four points with an injury-ravaged side, they reserved few words of positivity.
Rather, Ciraldo and Mahoney were scathing of the side's performance following a wild 34-30 defeat at Suncorp Stadium.
"I thought the scoreboard flattered us," Ciraldo said.
"The fact that we still had a chance to win it at the end there — we didn't deserve that.
"And we didn't really nail it at the end, either, when we did have a chance.
"I thought the Raiders were a much better side than us. They outcompeted us in every area and we just didn't stick to the plan, the style of game we wanted to play. We were so far away from it. That was right from the first whistle.
"So, really disappointed."
The Raiders scored a try through Jordan Rapana only 60-odd seconds into the game, when a cluster of Bulldogs players did nothing but watch the Canberra winger gobble up a Jamal Fogarty high ball and crash over.
Canberra piled on three tries in only six minutes midway through the opening half.
Like the Rapana try, four-pointers chalked up by Matthew Timoko and Hudson Young came incredibly easily.
"People not doing their job — that's what it comes down to ... To come out and start the game the way we did was terrible," Ciraldo said.
"We just completely missed the jump," Mahoney added.
"We scored plenty of points. If you put 30 (points) on the board you should be able to win the game.
Start of that game, (for them) to score in the first set (was) pretty embarrassing. And then to go again, twice in a row, (was) simply not good enough. So, we need to change that as soon as possible.
"We were still in it, (which) is a good thing, but NRL standard ... That first 25 minutes was just not appropriate."
Bulldogs fullback Hayze Perham was awarded a penalty try in the 77th minute after Raiders prop Ata Mariota tackled him without the ball a couple of metres out from the try-line.
On the back of a scrum, centre Paul Alamoti chipped over the Raiders defence, halfback Matt Burton pounced on the ball and, with two defenders hanging off him, the playmaker flicked the footy to Perham.
Mariota then thumped into Perham from behind when the former Eel and Warrior was not in possession of the ball, prompting the referee to deem that he would have scored if not for the Canberra front-rower's illegal move.
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart objected to two disallowed Canberra tries late in the game: an Emre Guler try that was deemed to have come off a forward pass by Jack Wighton, and a Xavier Savage four-pointer scored on the back of a Wighton knock-on — off his melon.
But the Canberra mentor had no issue with Canterbury's penalty try.
"If it was me I'd be wanting a penalty try, too," Stuart said.
"I think the decision was correct."
Stuart applauded his side's performance in the Magic Round opener.
"Respectively, I thought we were a far better team tonight," Stuart said.
"You always try to work a team into a situation where you can come home and get them.
"It's hard, it's tough, (referee) Chris (Sutton) has got a tough job as a ref, but two tries I thought were tries tonight, which shows that we were the superior team."
The Bulldogs will meet the Warriors at Sydney Olympic Park in round 11, while the Raiders, who collected their fourth win in succession on Friday night, will face the Eels in Canberra.
But as Canterbury coach Cameron Ciraldo and co-captain Reed Mahoney addressed the press after the Bulldogs lost by only four points with an injury-ravaged side, they reserved few words of positivity.
Rather, Ciraldo and Mahoney were scathing of the side's performance following a wild 34-30 defeat at Suncorp Stadium.
"I thought the scoreboard flattered us," Ciraldo said.
"The fact that we still had a chance to win it at the end there — we didn't deserve that.
"And we didn't really nail it at the end, either, when we did have a chance.
"I thought the Raiders were a much better side than us. They outcompeted us in every area and we just didn't stick to the plan, the style of game we wanted to play. We were so far away from it. That was right from the first whistle.
"So, really disappointed."
The Raiders scored a try through Jordan Rapana only 60-odd seconds into the game, when a cluster of Bulldogs players did nothing but watch the Canberra winger gobble up a Jamal Fogarty high ball and crash over.
Canberra piled on three tries in only six minutes midway through the opening half.
Like the Rapana try, four-pointers chalked up by Matthew Timoko and Hudson Young came incredibly easily.
"People not doing their job — that's what it comes down to ... To come out and start the game the way we did was terrible," Ciraldo said.
"We just completely missed the jump," Mahoney added.
"We scored plenty of points. If you put 30 (points) on the board you should be able to win the game.
Start of that game, (for them) to score in the first set (was) pretty embarrassing. And then to go again, twice in a row, (was) simply not good enough. So, we need to change that as soon as possible.
"We were still in it, (which) is a good thing, but NRL standard ... That first 25 minutes was just not appropriate."
Bulldogs fullback Hayze Perham was awarded a penalty try in the 77th minute after Raiders prop Ata Mariota tackled him without the ball a couple of metres out from the try-line.
On the back of a scrum, centre Paul Alamoti chipped over the Raiders defence, halfback Matt Burton pounced on the ball and, with two defenders hanging off him, the playmaker flicked the footy to Perham.
Mariota then thumped into Perham from behind when the former Eel and Warrior was not in possession of the ball, prompting the referee to deem that he would have scored if not for the Canberra front-rower's illegal move.
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart objected to two disallowed Canberra tries late in the game: an Emre Guler try that was deemed to have come off a forward pass by Jack Wighton, and a Xavier Savage four-pointer scored on the back of a Wighton knock-on — off his melon.
But the Canberra mentor had no issue with Canterbury's penalty try.
"If it was me I'd be wanting a penalty try, too," Stuart said.
"I think the decision was correct."
Stuart applauded his side's performance in the Magic Round opener.
"Respectively, I thought we were a far better team tonight," Stuart said.
"You always try to work a team into a situation where you can come home and get them.
"It's hard, it's tough, (referee) Chris (Sutton) has got a tough job as a ref, but two tries I thought were tries tonight, which shows that we were the superior team."
The Bulldogs will meet the Warriors at Sydney Olympic Park in round 11, while the Raiders, who collected their fourth win in succession on Friday night, will face the Eels in Canberra.
