'They were shocking': Big Marn unloads on Canberra's dismal performance
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West Tigers beat the Rabbitohs 18-16. I'll play you what Ricky Stewart had to say in just a second. The other games, Bulldogs over the Dolphins 30-10 and the Cowboys hammered the Raiders 42 points to four. And yeah, Ricky Stewart, the Canberra coach, he was not too impressed at full time. Everyone's got to be with himself. It's pretty simple. I spoke about it in the commentary pre-game. That's nowhere near what we've got. You sit here and...

That was just a boys' performance tonight. In every little contest, we were all smashed. Still just one win behind eight-place Dolphins. Is there hope within the squad? Do you see the game tonight? Mate, you want me to be honest in here? We're a long way off some of those teams in that top eight in regards to that performance out there tonight. The frustrating part is I know that we're a better football team out there tonight, but I'm not going to protect those blokes in there. That was a real precious, precious, spoilt game.

type of game tonight, the way we played. We weren't prepared to get uncomfortable. We weren't prepared to do the grind and the hard work. We got into the arm wrestling that first eight to ten minutes and we were the first team to break. That's why I can't cop.

Not happy with his team, so you can expect some sort of a response next week, but it might be too late. I've got a question for Piggy off the back of that. So when you get to round whatever we are, there's three games to go, they've played 20 games this year, this is their 21st match or whatever. How does that happen to a team? Well, I think it's a little bit different for the Raiders because they've got so many young blokes. Running out of steam? Yeah, like a long season and blokes...

probably aren't used to the rigors of nrl week in and week out and sometimes you're going to probably have those weeks when you have so many young players i know it's not an excuse but the raiders have blooded they've blooded a lot of young players and they look like they're going to invest in them over the next few years and i think just at the moment there's a there's a bit of pain and some weeks they're up and some weeks they're not and

Yesterday they weren't up. And sometimes you can, and it can just spread through a team so quickly. You just need one or two things to happen and not go your way, and then someone else does it, someone drops a book. They were way off yesterday. I think what he said was exactly right. I wonder if a couple of them pack their jeans before they're putting in the old Saturday night in the mad cow. Mmm.

Well, I reckon... There's been plenty of people... Well, we actually discussed that. Guilty of that. A few of my co-commentators said he wouldn't let him go there. I said, I think he would. Oh, I don't know. I think he would. After that performance? You don't think he'd let him go? I don't know after that performance. Some coaches wouldn't let you after...

like that. I'm not too sure. And if they wouldn't let you, how many would sneak out? I don't know. I don't know if they'd be any brave enough, would they? Ricky's very protective of his players, but that sounded like he was very, very cranky. Maybe that's what he said. He said, look, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed.