I reckon Johnathan Thurston should get a medal for not blowing his stack after the Cowboys got shafted in the finals for the third straight year. In fact, the NRL should refund the $10,000 they fined Paul Green the week before as a reward for Thurston’s restraint. How he kept his mouth shut in the minutes after fulltime is a mystery almost as big as how the video refs ruled than Robert Lui knocked-on before JT “scored” the winning try. I’m starting to think the Cowboys are cursed. Three years running they’ve got to the finals – and had a team good enough to go all the way – and three years running they’ve been bundled out courtesy of a dodgy decision. Have they changed the knock-on rule while I’ve been out of the country? I always thought the ball had to be propelled forward towards the opposition try-line. These days it seems it just has to be dropped. Or maybe not. Sonny Bill Williams dropped the pill cold as a spud but the ref handed him a penalty to get the Roosters in position for the winning field goal. You can say all you like that the Cowboys deserved to lose after their shocking first 30 minutes, but did the Roosters deserve to win after their woeful last 50? JT might not say it, but I reckon the Cows were robbed, plain and simple. What do YOU reckon?
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:36:52 +0000