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All the best Twitter chat from Round 3 of the 2017 NRL season

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IT’S fair to say it was a mammoth weekend of Rugby League action.

The Tigers again suffered a huge defeat and finally took action, Billy Slater returned to the field on Thursday night and the Panthers and the Roosters played out an absolute epic that was tainted by some contentious refereeing calls.

Rather than tell you how it is, we let the users of Twitter tell the story.

Heavy Raiders loss seals Tigers’ coach fate

After back-to-back heavy losses the Tigers have decided to axe coach Jason Taylor.

The decision came on the back of a heavy 40 point loss to the Raiders, after going down by 34 the week prior.

If a tweet could ever sum up the emotions of the coach, the team and the fans then this would be it.

News leaked on Monday that Taylor would be fired, and while some fans are overjoyed…

The call to remove him has not been unanimously popular.

One user was quick to point out that Tigers legend Robbie Farah could have waited less than a month and he would have made his way back into the starting team rather than being forced out of the club.

Billy Slater makes his return to the field

After spending over a year on the sidelines, superstar fullback Billy Slater made his 2017 debut for the Melbourne Storm in Thursday’s narrow win over the Broncos.

It was fair to the collective Rugby League community were on board the Billy Slater train on Thursday night.

One Twitter user believes the return of Slater could swing the premiership pendulum the Storm’s way.

While we would not go as far as this tweeter, we were damn happy to see the Queensland superstar back on the park.

Moylan magic lights up Twitter in painful Panther loss

His Penrith Panthers may have went down on Saturday night, but Matt Moylan provided the pass of the season so far to add to his already impressive highlight reel.

One Twitter user thought the pass earned the young fullback a no questions asked Blues guernsey for the next ten years.

After leading early in the match, the Roosters stormed back to claim the win, but the refereeing in the match drew the ire of Twitter after a forward pass was allowed to stand.

One Twitter user even went as far to suggest that the referees need to be held accountable for their poor calls in a similar fashion to the players.

Despite the bitter loss, Moylan drew praise for the manner in which he took the loss.

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