Trent Robinson took issue with a lopsided penalty count that finished 18-7 against the Roosters in their 42-18 first up loss to the Warriors at Go Media Stadium.

At one stage the Roosters were down 11-2 in the penalty count and Robinson admits he hasn’t seen many like it in his time in the NRL.

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“Things will go against you,” Robinson said.

“I think 11-2. The opposition apply a lot of pressure. It depends on the referee about how they determine those and 11-2 is quite incredible in our game.

“Then we had video ref decisions and all of that. But as I go back to, depending on what team you want to be, is how much of a swing against you do you let in that many points for us? And I’m okay. I think we’ll execute the attack. I’m not worried about missing that execution.

“It would have been nice to get that back. But we want to be a team that you can have 11-2 against. You can have decisions go against you, and then you can put your gloves up and say, it’s cool.

“We might be a few points down, but we can hold on to that no matter how far it swings. Round 1 we’re not able to do that. Round two. We’ll see.”

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Roosters skipper James Tedesco admitted he was frustrated with the penalty count, but was more disappointed with his team and their poor defence against the Warriors.

“I mean, we had a lot of calls against, with the penalty count and a couple of tries, and then a couple of their tries as well, so it was disappointing,” Tedesco said.

“But we still let in that many points and we can’t be doing that, so that’s disappointing, especially that last 10 minutes to let in a couple of tries, when we were sort of fighting our way back and giving ourselves a chance.

“We had a couple of opportunities we didn’t execute, and then I thought it wasn’t a great end performance.

“I feel like there was some positives throughout the game in patches, but it’s disappointing to put all that work in pre-season and come over and let in that many points.”

Despite the convincing loss, Robinson was proud of his team for fighting back from 28-6 down to give themselves a chance at 30-18.

“That’s footy. It’s Round 1. There’s some disappointing parts in the first half in how that went,” Robinson said.

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“Things sort of swung against us there and got out and I really enjoyed the fightback in that second half.

“It felt like we were coming. Momentum had shifted. We made that move and then we just didn’t execute well enough.

“We had enough possession there. We had 15 to go after them, and credit to them, they held us out. And then it turned around. But the story is 42 points is unacceptable for a game.

“No matter how you feel or how it went, there’s no way that that’s acceptable in a performance and we know that. It’s pretty simple. We’ve got to make sure we fix that up.”

It was a clunky first up performance from star recruit Daly Cherry-Evans and Sam Walker in the halves and Robinson revealed the former Manly halfback was dejected post match.

“It’s good to get him out there and to see him and Sammy moving around together,” Robinson said.

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“I know it was a tough night for all of us out there, so it didn’t go as he wanted, but it’s getting started for us there. And they started moving a bit more than the Parramatta trial, so that’s a positive and it’s an okay start. I know he’s disappointed in there, but cool. Let’s go.”

However, Robinson refused to put the loss down to his star halves not delivering with their combination.

“I thought we opened them up a lot,” Robinson said.

“And I don’t think to look to the combination is looking in the right area. I think we could have grabbed one or two more.

“I think a couple got pulled back there, so I didn’t see the combination as an issue. It’ll improve, that’s for sure. But we’re looking in the wrong spot for the reason for that game.”