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Five more apologies required from NRL Round 2

16th March, 2014
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The all-too common site of Jared Waerea-Hargreaves getting attention from the referees. (AAP Image/Action Photographics, Renee McKay)
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Yesterday afternoon Gold Coast Titans coach John Cartwright apologised in the post-match press conference for his side’s abysmal performance against the Tigers at Robina, and rightly so.

The Titans looked like they had celebrated their first up win against the Sharks by bussing it home from the Shire and stopping at every hotel, nightclub, farmhouse, outhouse and doghouse on the way back to the glitter strip with a defensive effort Schapelle Corby’s lawyers would be ashamed of.

Later on the club’s CEO would also go onto apologise for it being sunny and the dangerous glare reflecting from Luke Bailey’s scalp, which seemed a slight bit of overkill, but made me think of some other people who should be saying “sorry” and buying a big box of chocolates for their performances on the weekend.

5. Anthony Milford to Canberra fans
The Raiders versus Newcastle match was a belter yesterday, but was once again bittersweet for Canberra fans as the soon to be departed Milford toyed with the opposition in a scintillating display.

If the green machine could somehow hang onto ‘Milf’ with their other youngsters they could be premiership material in the next couple of years.

If Anthony is going to hang around in 2014 maybe he’s better off just putting in a half-arsed effort or at least getting up to some mischief at ‘Mooseheads’ so the pain is lessened by the time he heads to the evil empire at the end of the year.

4. Phil Gould to his Panther players
In a move that will surely strengthen the ties between NRL clubs and the media, The Daily Telegraph reported on the weekend of Panthers boss Phil Gould passing up the opportunity to watch his side play football in favour of a trip to his local fish and chip shop.

And while this news should not surprise footy fans, after all Gould recently took to social media to air his general indifference to watching live rugby league and is known for a fondness for something that goes great with choccy milk, Phil’s decision may not have gone down like a rich creamy vanilla malt for some of his players busting their buns out in Melbourne.

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3. Storm to Craig Bellamy
Speaking of the purple people eaters, it’s likely that the Storm also should be penning a few words of forgiveness after putting their highly wound coach through another nail-biter on the weekend.

Sure they looked a bit safer with Cooper Cronk rather than Ben Roberts leading them around this week, however after the miracle at Manly waiting to the last minute to wrap it up against Penrith makes it seem like Billy Slater and Cameron Smith just enjoy seeing Craig Bellamy frothing in the change rooms like a madman gargling Listerine.

2. Warriors to New Zealand
This is a no-brainer…which seems pretty apt for the Warriors at the moment.

After falling to the might of Parramatta the Warriors were humbled once again at Eden Park’s massive auditorium by the Dragons, in a performance that ranged through fair to fairly terrible.

While there are rumblings of discontent behind the scenes, the fact that once again their defence was leakier in both grades than Russell Packer after a case of Steinlager surely must mean that the panic sirens in Auckland on Saturday weren’t just for the impending cyclone.

1. Referees to JWH
Yes, not a typo.

While Jared Waerea-Hargreaves may be about as liked by the referees as Geoff Toovey press-conferences and stray Toni Carroll knees, their decision to leave one man loony bin Darcy Lussick on the field after his attempted decapitation of JWH on Saturday night had a bad whiff about it.

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Now, I’m not saying the refs necessarily saying there’s an agenda here, but one can only imagine if the tattooed one had attempted a similar manoeuvre on Parramatta nice guy Will Hopoate and whether he’d still have been on the field before Hoppa hit the deck.

I think Waerea-Hargreaves deserves a full blown, on the knees apology here from the referees bosses. (By email of course, for their own safety).

Any other apologies you believe are warranted from the weekend Roarers?

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