"It just brings back so many memories of what's happened (in Australia's past).
"It's something that everyone as a group and everyone in Australia need to get together and working something out.
"It doesn't represent myself and my family."
The NRL has also come under fire for deciding to play the Australian national anthem before the match after recent calls from NRL great and boxing star Anthony Mundine for NRL players to boycott the Australian national anthem.
"The anthem was written in late 1700s where blackfullas (sic) were considered fauna (animals) Advance Australia Fair as in white not fair as in fair go," Mundine wrote on Facebook.
"All players aboriginal & non aboriginal should boycott the anthem & start changing Australia's ignorant mentality … lets move forward together yo."
NRL fans flocked to social media on Friday night to both criticise the NRL and the Indigenous players.
NRL.com reported earlier this week that the NRL had hoped to sing the Australian national anthem in the language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional custodians of the land where the city of Melbourne was established.
Unfortunately, the anthem has never been translated into the Woiwurrung language.
The NRL's Indigenous Round last year saw the Australian anthem performed in several Aboriginal languages before matches.
Meanwhile, Former NRL player Joe Williams also made a public plea for the national anthem to be boycotted.
"Imagine if a couple of guys did it on grand final day — what a powerful message it would send to white Australia," Williams told Rugby League Week.
"It would bring all the racism that's in the closet to the surface — the racism we have to put up with every day. The way we are treated in shops, the way people look at us on the street and the way the government treats us.
"It's time it stopped. And our footballers are role models and the ideal ones to bring about change."
The Indigenous team went on to perform a spirited and powerful war cry, led by Roosters star Latrell Mitchell as a dramatic response to the New Zealand team's haka.
