Why didn’t we take the kick when we were awarded the penalty in the last few mins? We needed to score twice so at least we would have got some points that gave us a chance. I know it was a tiny chance but still better then nothing.
More to the point why did we not take the easy two points on offer early in the game inside the first twenty minutes? Right in front and down 8-0. Like you say something is better than nothing because we lost the ball in the early part of the tackle count to take any pressure, off. In the end though we were outscored try wise three to two by a team that was worth and paid heaps more than ours.
We had two players on report to their one. I thought that Lewis was taken out on THREE occasions whilst he was in the air after kicking but only one of those was punished with a penalty. Cooper Cronk got away with a blatant escort off the ball but I have come to expect that Mr Clean never does anything wrong.
Had to laugh..Roosters were offside ALL game and had one penalty against them in the 63rd minute then the officials waited until the 71st minute to award the first of two further penalties against them for that infringement. We were never going to beat them but in the last eight minutes when we looked like scoring a few times they gave away four penalties close to their line stopping any momentum. We had heaps of possession in the second half but as usual could not do anything with it. Even in the first half when we had 40% possession we completed at 81% to their 71% but did stuff all with the ball. We are just so bad that it is unbelievable and it is going to be a few long cold winters until we may at least have any sort of worthwhile impact on the competition.
