![]() The Raiders’ loss to the Bulldogs was on a night when the club was celebrating the 20-year reunion of its 1994 premiership team. Perhaps the incredibly cold Canberra weather had something to do with it but on Friday night the Raiders demonstrated why they’ve fallen so far off the pace with error after error - many of them early in a set. Titans skipper Nate Myles suffered the same fate after conducting an argument with the referee of the Gold Coast-Dragons game and lo and behold his side lost by one-point. ![]() He was sin binned with the game in the balance and the Eels ended up on the end of a thrashing because of it. But how Chris Sandow expected to stay on the field after asking the referee how much “they”, as in Parramatta’s Melbourne opponents, were paying him is anyone’s guess. Maybe there was something about Sunday that caused it to coincide with a couple of players getting out on the wrong side of the bed. Who knows whether or not the referees were given a directive to crack down on dissent. Can things possibly get any worse in the Shire? And to make matters worse, after getting dealt with easily by the table-topping Manly, Paul Gallen took to the airwaves to inform Sharks fans that while interim coach Peter Sharp was coaching the side, the players wouldn’t be giving 100 per cent. In Saturday’s tight battle with the Broncos, it was once again a moment of Johnson genius that separated the two sides, as he kicked one of the best field-goals of the season - a cracking strike from 42 metres out.įor the third straight game the Sharks failed to trouble the scorers, setting a dubious record for the longest stretch an NRL side has gone without points. We all knew he was a star but since Andrew McFadden took over the Warriors, Shaun Johnson has been able to provide the kind of consistency every side needs from its main playmaker. ![]() ![]() Ben Barba celebrates a try against the Warriors. ![]()
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