Roosters score after huge controversy
Tyson Otto:
Just before Tedesco's try, replays showed the referee clearly waved six more tackles and barked out the order, 'Six more, six more'. However, it was then that the pocket referee appeared to overrule the first decision be yelling out "last tackle, change over" as the Raiders pressed their attack.The Roosters then went up the other end and broke the Raiders' hearts.
“We will hear more about that six again call and the referees changing it midstream,” Phil Gould sai on Channel 9. “I can’t imagine that the Raiders weren’t fooled by the call that it was six again. “Otherwise Wighton would have kicked a second time rather than take a tackle."
Johnathan Thurston said he was "dumbfounded" by the decision – and declared the Raiders had every right to be "shattered"."Dumbfounded. I'm dumbfounded by that," Thurston told Nine. "You can hear the referees calling it, 'Six again, six again'. And then he's changed his mind. It was changing the call on the run. "It's not a good look. It is not a good look at all. I would be pretty shattered if I was the Raiders. The next set, Tedesco scores and wins them the match. Really, it is not a great look. As a team, you want to take the referees out of the equation and win the game being a consistent footy team. "It's just a huge, huge call."
NRL commentators across the game declared the Raiders were robbed. NRL great Martin Lang even branded it the biggest referee "blunder in grand final history".
