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  Ross October 4, 2009 at 9:11pm

  Have to agree with you here, Lowrie played so well against the bulldogs last week.. not so good this week. One more though..they managed to shut down hayne.
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  Djl October 4, 2009 at 9:14pm

  its over man have a cry like the rest of us then shake it of and get ready for next year
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  Jazzy Jase October 4, 2009 at 9:23pm

  true-true-true
  We outplayed them-they were shattered & we were coming home. Good coaching by Bellamy to kick for Inglis....sadly poor effort on that occasion by us. Sux hey, all there tries were soft
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  Michael Cakar October 4, 2009 at 9:25pm

  well i just got home from the game. as much as I'd love to blame ref calls, I just can't. we let in three soft tries, and you can't win Grand Finals by letting in soft tries.
  
  that being said. I'm still a few beers in and will no doubt be less phylosophical tomorrow.
  
  it stings, but hey, we gave it a good crack. we just needed a little more heart in the first half.
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  Camo73 October 4, 2009 at 9:29pm

  I have my own 3. 1 of them is the same as yours.
  
  1 - missed tackle on Hoffman, allowing him to score
  2 - failing to contest the bomb that Inglis caught and scored off
  3 - missed tackle on Cronk which led to Blair's try.
  
  They were the 3 moments that cost us the premiership.
  
  I'm sad and disappointed but I think our boys can hold their heads high. They have achieved some awesome things this year and the try to Fui was worth the admission cost alone.
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    Johno > Camo73 October 4, 2009 at 10:12pm

    ditto...they were the softest of the softest tries ever. Bright side though, the boys never once turned up their toes and just gave it their best shot. 2nd half and in particular the last 30 minutes we were the better team.
    
    My 3 are ifs
    1 - If only we weren't over-awed defensively in first half
    2- If only Tolman was penalised for laying in the ruck, poor old Lowrie wouldn't have got the ball on tackle 5
    3 - If only the correct decision of knock-on against Slater was ruled
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  Ross October 4, 2009 at 10:37pm

  I think slow play the balls were the real reason we lost the game.. the refs were taking forever to call held, their first try came not long after a for sure held tackle and the player .. cant remember who .. got up and kept running! All our players thought it was a completed tackle!
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    Sanbo > Ross October 4, 2009 at 10:45pm

    The ref actually called "release: then Turner got up an ran another 15 metres ....that resulted in the try as our defence never set after that
    
    that was the biggest Bullshit call in the game......If he was to scared to blow a penalty then he should have had turner return to play the ball on the mark. The correct decision was to award us a penalty cos when archer called release, that meant the tackle had been completed, so how the Fuck can Turner get up and run another 15 metres without getting penalised????
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    Parramattic > Ross October 4, 2009 at 10:55pm

    steve turner, that was such bullshit, ref was like held, release and he got up and ran again i was like wtf??
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  Sanbo October 4, 2009 at 10:48pm

  The set of six where Hoffman scored the first try (first 5 mins)
  
  The ref actually called "release: then Turner got up an ran another 15 metres ....that resulted in the Hoffman try as our defence never set after that
  
  that was the biggest Bullshit call in the game......If he was to scared to blow a penalty then he should have had turner return to play the ball on the mark. The correct decision was to award us a penalty cos when archer called release, that meant the tackle had been completed, so how the Fuck can Turner get up and run another 15 metres without getting penalised????