ultimately cost the club any hopes of reaching this year\u2019s finals series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt should have been 28-all, and there\u2019s a brain explosion when we got a penalty,\u201d Stuart said post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a fuc**** brain explosion and (we) lost the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horsburgh sent to bin for slap | 00:29<\/p>\n
Showing his frustration towards the forward, Stuart conceded that the officials made the correct call, pointing to a similar incident a couple of weeks ago which saw Wests Tigers veteran Alex Twal sent to the sin bin against the Bulldogs. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one last week with Alex Twal. Everyone knows that you\u2019re not allowed to do that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just in the rules. It\u2019s been in the rules for the last many, many years<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty disappointing knowing that we\u2019re not going to make the semis now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stuart sends Marzhew sliding! | 00:30<\/p>\n
Speaking about his post-match conversation with Horsburgh, the Raiders coach revealed that he made it clear to him that it was him that cost his side the win with his \u201cbrain explosion\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost the start of the season because we were self-entitled and undisciplined and we lost the opportunity to still then continue and try to make the semis,\u201d Stuart added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what I said to him after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t everybody\u2019s fault. There\u2019s 16 other blokes there that made a lot of massive effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one shi* bloody decision choice (that) has cost us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The blunder couldn\u2019t have come at a worse time for Horsburgh, who has been linked with a number of clubs despite being contracted with the Raiders until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n
It is understood that he is considering a return to his home state of Queensland but needs to be granted permission from the Raiders to explore his options.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t spoken to any clubs at the moment because we can\u2019t obviously,\u201d his manager Jeff Jurotte told The Canberra Times.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Raiders chief executive Don Furner] and I have spoken about different scenarios and salary caps and whatever – if Canberra\u2019s got salary cap issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the moment he\u2019s very happy there and he\u2019s contracted to the end of \u201827, and at this stage that\u2019s where we sit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An irate Ricky Stuart has blasted Corey Horsburgh\u2019s costly sin bin as a \u201cfu***** brain explosion\u201d, blaming it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-848981","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\/848981","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=848981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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