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Roosters rally from 10-0 down to defeat Canberra 34-20, taking advantage of Raiders player's sin bin.
The Roosters overcame an early 10-0 deficit to beat Canberra 34-20.
After failing to take their chances early, the Tri-colours took charge of the game while Raiders Hollie-Mae Dodd was in the sin bin for a hip-drop tackle.
Mia Wood ran in two tries while Dodd was off the field and Eliza Lopamaua another, as the Roosters went from 10-6 behind to 22-10 up.
Robinson and Whitehead clash after Raiders' win, injuries mar Roosters in tight match.
Roosters coach Trent Robinson and Raiders skipper Elliott Whitehead have had an explosive run in following
Canberra's upset 14-12 win
at Allianz Stadium.
It was a game marred by injury, with the
Roosters losing four players throughout
the dramatic 80 minutes.
In addition to star half Sam Walker
, one of those four was hooker Brandon Smith, who picked up a knee injury when he was the victim of a hip drop tackle by Whitehead.
Whitehead apologized for injuring Smith, but Robinson refused to accept it, criticizing Whitehead's tackling technique.
Elliott Whitehead says Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson was "out of order" in refusing to accept his apology over a tackle that injured Brandon Smith's knee.
But Robinson felt it was hard to forgive Whitehead, whom he said had been laying hip-drop tackles for his "whole career".
The Canberra captain went to the sin bin for laying a hip-drop tackle on Smith during the first half of the Raiders' 14-12 win, which ended with the Roosters hooker on the sidelines.
Early indications are that the tackle injured the medial cruciate ligament in Smith's right knee,...