{"id":718051,"date":"2026-06-06T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718051\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:28:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-ricky-stuart-press-conference-lasts-less-than-two-minutes-after-roosters-hammering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718051\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Ricky Stuart press conference lasts less than two minutes after Roosters hammering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raiders<\/a> coach Ricky Stuart<\/a> has never been shy to express how he truly feels after a loss and that continued post-match after his side were\u00a0thrashed at home by the Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Raiders looked nothing like the team that downed the Cowboys last week as they were held scoreless for the first time in two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ricky<\/p>\n

Ricky Stuart was in no mood to talk after the loss to the Roosters.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

They are currently 5-8 on the season and are two wins short of the top eight.<\/p>\n

Stuart has been critical of his team\u2019s ill-discipline throughout the year, and the Raiders\u2019 crucial first-half errors led to points for the tri-colours<\/a>, who were by far the better team.<\/p>\n

Stuart wanted no part of the press conference and gave short answers whenever he was addressed, with journalists turning their attention to captain Joe Tapine.<\/p>\n

The Raiders coach made no excuses, stating the Roosters were \u201ctoo good\u201d and \u201chad too much class\u201d.<\/p>\n

When asked how the 13th-placed Raiders can recover from such a performance, Stuart replied quickly: \u201cIt\u2019s one game mate\u201d.<\/p>\n

The reporter continued, but Stuart interjected: \u201cJust gotta worry about next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stuart was also short when asked about injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, haven\u2019t spoken to him yet,\u201d he said when addressing a question about Ethan Sanders.<\/p>\n

And it was the same response when he was asked about Savelio Tamale\u2019s possible concussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, mate, I don\u2019t know … only just got in there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Stuart\u2019s frustration with his team is understandable after they missed nearly 40 tackles and accrued 15 errors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the opposite to what we did last week. We had the game plan but we didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Tapine added.<\/p>\n

The Raiders<\/a> travel to Parramatta to take on the Eels<\/a> next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders coach Ricky Stuart has never been shy to express how he truly feels after a loss and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-718051","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\/718051","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=718051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}