Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Roosters

[Johnny73]

The Roosters need to gut the Tigers next week. Give Benji Marshall (whom I actually like as a person and a player) a second game as coach to remember.

[Headless Chook]

Can Toia play on the right? Or play Pauga in the centres? We finally have our spine humming, it just doesn't seem a smart thing to do to tinker with it now

[The Marshall]

Really proud of the guys tonight. But a part of me thinks what a fkn "tragedy" if we miss the playoffs....a waste.

Top shows across the park. Lindsay just owned that game. Ted was enormous.

Lovin watching guys like May, Baker, Wong do their stuff. Great digs all of them.

Suaalii is now showing a bit of what the hype is about...just an athlete.

As I ve said all along, Baker is a big loss

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Great defensive effort tonight considering Parra's 1st try was short of the line and their 2nd came off a falcon

[fletch]

Can Toia play on the right? Or play Pauga in the centres? We finally have our spine humming, it just doesn't seem a smart thing to do to tinker with it now

Don't know what is up with Toia as he didn't play in the Roosters NSW Cup this evening.

Edit: Toia reportedly now playing for the Bears on Sunday

https://twitter.com/Katzo60/status/1692446084013174955

[Chook2]

As I ve said all along, Baker is a big loss

Not that big
he wouldn’t have been in our 17 next year
just a solid back up option
may is better and the hybrid back row front row seems to be a Trend with sitili, critchon, butcher, Wong, brown and Whyte so plenty of coverage with jwh, Collins and spencer there

doesn’t have the mongrel and leg speed abit slow for the game currently

[Vasco]

Don't know what is up with Toia as he didn't play in the Roosters NSW Cup this evening.

Edit: Toia reportedly now playing for the Bears on Sunday

https://twitter.com/Katzo60/status/1692446084013174955

Seems strange that they swap between the Bears and Roosters.

[elo]

We got the job done, both sides were poor but the Eels once again have blown up early and have no juice left when it matters - completely shot after 20 mins in each half as they were last week. Way too many unforced errors to challenge the serious football teams in this competition but we remain alive.

[ism22]

Great defensive effort tonight considering Parra's 1st try was short of the line and their 2nd came off a falcon

Yeah their 2nd was BS... nothing we coulda done there.

[NorfolkStreetKid]

Well who would have thought we would perform better with our backline in their correct positions ?
Amazing.
Outstanding effort by Lindsay, not only the carries but the extra efforts which saved tries and blotted out movements.
Keary looked great as well, very solid in defence and great kicks.
Teddy was great,
Manu, Suaalii and Toops very solid.
Hutchison did nothing wrong, but nothing great either, just filled in.
hopefully Walker will be back next week
Radley worked hard, Butch was good off Keary.
Crighton got through the game, he should improve with more game time hopefully
Smith , probably his best game for us, looking to create and worked hard in defence.
Baker and May went well.... Napa offered very little, still very slow, surely we have better options.

[B2B]

Well who would have thought we would perform better with our backline in their correct positions ?
Amazing.
Outstanding effort by Lindsay, not only the carries but the extra efforts which saved tries and blotted out movements.
Keary looked great as well, very solid in defence and great kicks.
Teddy was great,
Manu, Suaalii and Toops very solid.
Hutchison did nothing wrong, but nothing great either, just filled in.
hopefully Walker will be back next week
Radley worked hard, Butch was good off Keary.
Crighton got through the game, he should improve with more game time hopefully
Smith , probably his best game for us, looking to create and worked hard in defence.
Baker and May went well.... Napa offered very little, still very slow, surely we have better options.

Agree with you Norfolk. Great summary . The season is not over yet , if results go our way and we keep winning we are still a chance to make the 8 . Keep believing.

[On the Nose]

Well who would have thought we would perform better with our backline in their correct positions ?
Amazing.
Outstanding effort by Lindsay, not only the carries but the extra efforts which saved tries and blotted out movements.
Keary looked great as well, very solid in defence and great kicks.
Teddy was great,
Manu, Suaalii and Toops very solid.
Hutchison did nothing wrong, but nothing great either, just filled in.
hopefully Walker will be back next week
Radley worked hard, Butch was good off Keary.
Crighton got through the game, he should improve with more game time hopefully
Smith , probably his best game for us, looking to create and worked hard in defence.
Baker and May went well.... Napa offered very little, still very slow, surely we have better options.

Yes. When questioned Robinson still tries to infer that Suallii et al were out of form because of their own headspace rather than his stupid positional musical chairs. Such an easy decision this week, Allan into centre, JWH for Napa, Butcher back. If he even thinks about putting Hutch or Suallii into centre he should resign.

[Recky62]

so , let me get this straight , old Dolphin mate gets walked last week for Hutcho falling into a headshot BUT Sivo kicks Teddys head in to the point of a failed HIA and gets to stay ...well done Klein you inconsistent f**k....ANYWAY...we did won WOOHOO

[rented tracksuit]

so , let me get this straight , old Dolphin mate gets walked last week for Hutcho falling into a headshot BUT Sivo kicks Teddys head in to the point of a failed HIA and gets to stay ...well done Klein you inconsistent f**k....ANYWAY...we did won WOOHOO

I don’t even think it was the knee. The knee looked like secondary contact after he got smacked by Sivos forearm.

[rented tracksuit]

Yeah their 2nd was BS... nothing we coulda done there.

That first try was a terrible call. Does the bunker not realise the ball is round and the point touching the ground never made the line? Side angle showed the the ball appearing to be over the line thanks to the curvature of the ball but the point of contact with the ground wasn’t touching the line.

I have no problem with control and don’t think he lost it in the attempt to score but I believe it never touched the line.