{"id":704454,"date":"2026-05-30T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704454\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:34:12","slug":"nrl-2026-trent-robinson-calls-out-roosters-players-in-press-conference-video-replay-loss-to-melbourne-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704454\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Trent Robinson calls out Roosters players in press conference, video, replay, loss to Melbourne Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trent Robinson has called out the Roosters\u2019 \u201clack of respect for the ball\u201d in a 18-4 loss to Melbourne<\/a>, declaring the fact the Roosters had six Origin players backing up is the \u201clast excuse\u201d he would make.<\/p>\n

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It was a determined defensive effort from the Roosters for the most part but errors proved their undoing, with the Tricolours coughing it up 18 times.<\/p>\n

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As a result, the Storm had plenty of good ball in attacking territory, finishing with 49 tackles in the opposition 20 compared to just 21 for the Roosters.<\/p>\n

It had coach Robinson visibly frustrated with his team in the sheds after the game, although the Roosters coach declined to even broadly discuss the message he had for his playing group.<\/p>\n

He was, however, more than happy to call out the performance for what it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally poor, a real lack of respect for the harder parts of the game, lack of respect for the ball and how you should play the game,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got the result we deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it would be easy for Robinson to point to the six Origin players that were backing up from Wednesday\u2019s gruelling series opener, he refused to accept that was any reason for the error-prone showing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the last excuse,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers have got to back up and play… I expect them to come back and play. If they\u2019re not ready to play, then they don\u2019t. They were all ready to play and we just couldn\u2019t get team alignment there about what we wanted out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bellamy on Storm’s epic back-up record | 07:27<\/p>\n

Captain James Tedesco had a similar message when asked whether the challenge of backing up from Origin would be a learning experience for some of the team\u2019s younger players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of the game, to be honest,\u201d Tedesco said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re expected to back up if your body\u2019s fine. We\u2019ve got a lot of leaders in our team that didn\u2019t play Origin and those guys held the fort down and for the guys that did back up, it was on us to get ready and get the job done. As a team, we just weren\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tedesco also supported Robinson\u2019s assessment on the team\u2019s ball-handling, telling reporters they \u201cdidn\u2019t respect the ball enough\u201d and gave the Storm \u201ctoo many opportunities\u201d. <\/p>\n

While the Roosters look like world beaters at their best, the past two losses against North Queensland and Melbourne have been a reminder of the inconsistencies that plagued their premiership tilts in recent years.<\/p>\n

For coach Robinson, both defeats were examples of the Roosters playing two teams that were \u201chungrier\u201d than them.<\/p>\n

How will Origin impact the Roosters? | 02:08<\/p>\n

\u201cA poor mindset from us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust not steely enough, not connected enough, there were defensive efforts there that really kept us in those games… we had to defend our line and we had some chase back tries, which I think show where the teams at when it comes for hunger. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut you\u2019ve also got to be connected and be really clear about your plan and also execute really well to finish your sets to win games. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I mean, to be sitting on four points… I think we went six games in a row of scoring six tries or more and then just to disrespect the ball and play more individual one play at a time rather than trying to pull a team apart with 13 guys. That\u2019s disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson shut down any suggestions he could make personnel changes though, reiterating Saturday\u2019s loss is \u201cnot on individual players\u201d but \u201con all of us\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shoulder charge or play on? | 00:42<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great group there and it\u2019s not about threatening anything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not how it works. We need some improvement really clearly and we\u2019ve got to get that in six days. It\u2019s about respecting the way that we want to play and there\u2019s enough players in there that know how we want to play. We just need to turn that around and get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Robinson has called out the Roosters\u2019 \u201clack of respect for the ball\u201d in a 18-4 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-704454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}