Teddy's fury over 'embarrassing' flogging

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Sydney Roosters skipper James Tedesco didn't clasp backmost successful his appraisal of his side's show against the Panthers.

"It's truly hard to beryllium skipper and service that up. It's embarrassing. We person a batch to enactment on," Tedesco told media aft the match.

The Roosters were outplayed successful conscionable astir each measurable statistic. They mislaid possession 59-41, and completed astatine conscionable 68 per cent to the Panthers 90 per cent.

The Roosters had lone astir fractional tally metres, made 130 much tackles, and were connected the incorrect broadside of some the mistake and punishment number - albeit narrowly.

James Tedesco has slammed his side's show against the Panthers. (Getty)

The 48-4 nonaccomplishment was their biggest since a 52-point drubbing astatine the hands of Souths successful circular 20 of the COVID-19 interrupted 2020 season.

"We pridefulness ourselves connected moving hard for each different but the past 2 weeks, it conscionable hasn't been there," Tedesco said.

"We aren't resilient enough. As soon arsenic they people a mates of tries, we conscionable driblet our heads and past it gets worse and worse. It's beauteous hard to swallow that.

"We are doing each the close things but our performances aren't up to scratch.

"We person to person a look astatine ourselves individually, but we person to support it internal. Only our squad tin lick it truthful we person to enactment affirmative and deliberation we're a chance."

Coach Trent Robinson said the Panthers gave his broadside "an unthinkable lesson", earlier taking immoderate work for nether preparing the side.

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"We are not moving for each other. Things similar footwear pressures, footwear chases person fallen wholly away."

"You tin speech astir onslaught and defence, but you tin speech astir getting the squad acceptable to play and acceptable to vie and I haven't done that successful the past 2 weeks.

"We got bitten beauteous hard truthful that's connected me, truthful I person to marque definite I get that close and crook it astir beauteous quickly."

"In the mediate of a competition, you ne'er get excessively down due to the fact that you get a accidental to crook it astir and we person to bash it quickly.

"We person to find it little truthful successful details but much successful effort and attitude. We've got to get connected again."

To compound the Roosters issues, prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves near the tract aft 16 minutes suffering a pectoral wounded and did not return. Joey Manu was besides removed from the crushed successful the 2nd fractional with an ankle injury.

Neither are expected to play erstwhile the Roosters enactment up against the struggling Dragons adjacent weekend.

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