"This is three six-agains with the game on the line and the Cowboys surging home," rugby league great Peter Sterling said on The Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n "That's two within the same tackle and then there's a third one as well."<\/p>\n Fittler interjected: "We had the same in Origin, we had three on one tackle and we didn't make five metres. It was ridiculous."<\/p>\n Sterling continued: "How fortunate for the Roosters not to have a sin-bin there. If you're talking repeated infringements, there was three in one tackle!"<\/p>\n Fittler added: "Totally agree. Sides now realise, especially on early tackles, you know what, they're giving up a tackle.<\/p>\n "We most probably got to have a look at that rule, I believe, with the 10 metres especially; maybe switching that back to penalties, because teams are just taking the piss."<\/p>\n Sterling said that the Roosters were deserved winners but branded "crucial" the period where they conceded repeated six-again infringements.<\/p>\n "These six-agains are such a big part of the game now and if we're fair dinkum about them, if you're giving them away like that … that's why the rule was brought in, for that not to happen," Sterling said.<\/p>\n The Roosters recorded four ruck infringements and four inside the 10 calls against them, according to NRL stats, as they beat the Cowboys 34-18.<\/p>\n While conceding six-agains has proved fatal for teams this season, clever coaches have clearly identified methods of using them judiciously in defence to blunt the opposition's attacking opportunities; either standing blatantly off-side or holding up the ruck to force slow play-the-balls.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n