Match Day Thread: Dragons V Roosters, Anzac Day

[Guest]

Just spoke to the missus, she took some of my boys to the game, stated it was a great game (result excepted). I take absolutely no solice from it being a good game, unless we win I dont give a rats.

[Guest]

Top game of footy, we didnt get the cash but geez they played well. I love seeing the Roosters in those type of games, sometimes you win sometimes you dont.

I thought Pearce had his best game for the club & I still think Anthony Mitchell should have played.

[Chook Norris]

Let's not...Dragons forward passes by Hornby all day that weren't pulled up.

same can be said about our wrestling

fact is no matter how much you point out contentious calls and penalties that could've been awarded, there would've been some which we were lucky to get away with.. and being roosters fans, turned an oblivious eye to

[Guest]

[QUOTE=Mickey Lane;202130]Top game of footy, we didnt get the cash but geez they played well. I love seeing the Roosters in those type of games, sometimes you win sometimes you dont.

I thought Pearce had his best game for the club & I still think Anthony Mitchell should have played.[/QUOTE]

Agree. Friend tried his butt off, but is half a pace too slow atm (including between the ears). Its like he is trying too hard.

[Guest]

The no advantage call when Morris knocked on.
The two man strip on Maubs (I think) that lead to a saints try.
Jamie Soward clearly walking the mark at least twice in first half.

Saints received their usual gifts from the &^%$ in pink.

We got a back chat call and the Weyman drop I thought was iffy.

Chook.

harden up.
you can't make excuses all your life.
repeat

[Guest]

They carved us.

7 line breaks to 1.

I'm surprised we were winning at all ?

Guerra try (lucky bounce)

Mini try (individual brilliance)

Pearce try (individual brilliance)

Anasta try (total fluke)


I'm happy that we came that close but we had no right to win that game. The defence at the end from the whole squad was farcical.

[bondi-boy]

They carved us.

7 line breaks to 1.

I'm surprised we were winning at all ?

Guerra try (lucky bounce)

Mini try (individual brilliance)

Pearce try (individual brilliance)

Anasta try (total fluke)


I'm happy that we came that close but we had no right to win that game. The defence at the end from the whole squad was farcical.

Agree.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nlah2gaY54

[Geohood]

They carved us.

7 line breaks to 1.

I'm surprised we were winning at all ?

Guerra try (lucky bounce)

Mini try (individual brilliance)

Pearce try (individual brilliance)

Anasta try (total fluke)


I'm happy that we came that close but we had no right to win that game. The defence at the end from the whole squad was farcical.

That's ridiculous dude. You don't just look at how points were scored... in general we were the better team all game until the last 5 minutes.

If you want to go that way though:

Creagh try ('individual brilliance' from their hooker)
Cooper try (lucky try from kick)
Weyman try ('individual brilliance' from Weyman)
Prior and Creagh tries (won't bother trying to explain those)

And it was 4 linebreaks to 1, and 2 of those were in the last 4 minutes, I don't know what stats you are looking at.

[Guest]

Fox sports at the end of the game had that tally.

Even at 4 line breaks to 1, it does not paint a pretty picture.

Dragons broke our line at will. Weyman just owned us at the end.

Their pack outgained us, while having less runs. Only Pearce's kicking kept us in it.

They went right through us while we scored off kicks and an absolute fluke in the Anasta try.

It was a brave performance by the youngsters but they carved us everywhere but the scoreboard. I still can't believe Weyman scored from dummy half, then popped the ball for the winning try.

[Chook Norris]

Fox sports at the end of the game had that tally.

Even at 4 line breaks to 1, it does not paint a pretty picture.

Dragons broke our line at will. Weyman just owned us at the end.

Conveniently, you managed to overlook a crucial part of geohood's post. Even at "4 linebreaks to 1" they did not "break our line at will"

Notice how 2 of those line breaks were in the last 5 minutes? take that away and it was 2 linebreaks to 1 for 75 minutes. Not the definition of being "carved up" is...

We outplayed them for 75minutes and our inexperience got the better of us in the last few minutes.

[Chook Norris]

as for the way we score trys, i could not give a flying fark. As long as we are scoring them. Trys scored off kicks are not simply luck, they are still worked for and practised at training

They went right through us

examples? Apart from Creagh's first try through Mitch Rein's break i didnt see any clear cut instances of them totally splitting us apart

They way you put it, it's as though they ran us rugged

[Guest]

Weyman scoring from dummy half, right in the middle, is my definition of going straight through us.

[Geohood]

If our players just dived low at the line we would of scored a couple through them. No matter how much you analyse it I still think we were the more dominant team for most of it. If you don't think so then ok.

[chook 56]

Weyman scoring from dummy half, right in the middle, is my definition of going straight through us.

That was prolly the softest try & rang warning bells.
Did we muscle up after that? No

[chook 56]

But, yes. I thought we had done enough to win.
Hopefully the young guys learn from that.
And my old $ouff$ mate was grinning from ear to ear (like I knew he would be)......"paybacks a bitch, ain't it?"
I know how he must have felt after rd1.