Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Souths

[Bruce 38-0]

Hopefully our right side D knows that when the play starts as far across to their right as possible and AJ is standing on halfway the ball is coming their way.

Also please watch out for Cooks sneaky scrum play from a few weeks back.

[Mickie Lane]

When you say “we’re” are you talking about Souths or The Roosters?

I’ll be sitting with Latrell with my Roosters jumper on & I’ll have my South’s jumper underneath

[Mickie Lane]

Unfortunately without JWH, Manu & Tupou it’s too higher a mountain to climb IMO but I hope I’m wrong.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

I’ll be sitting with Latrell with my Roosters jumper on & I’ll have my South’s jumper underneath

I've seen those half/half jumpers mate, like a pizza. You could wear a half Easts/half Souths combo piece.

[Thirteen]

Extremely not confident tonight, Souths are going to end our season for the third straight year!!!! Its our reality and you can simply blame the coaching and medical staff for tonight's lost

I don’t think you can blame the medical staff. Tonight when I see Luke I’m going to get him to bang your head with that drum of his.

[ism22]

I'm expecting Souths to go out quite hard and blow us away, we have been poor at Homebush for years and not expecting anything different tonight.

It would be a fitting way for our season to end.

Yep I'm expecting the same with Manu, Toops and JWH out. Attack aside, I'm just a bit worried that our backline's gonna be in a compromised position where JAS has switched sides and Allan/Pauga (while solid) just aren't as safe in defence (or metre eaters in attack) like Toops/Manu. This could then stretch Teddy, making him feel he has to do EVERYTHING... which IMO makes him less lethal.

JWH... look we'll miss him but I'm not as worried about our forwards. Baker, Cheese, Collins, Wong, Butch x 2, Rads, May and Crichton are solid as. Souffs will be hoping that Koloamatagi, Arrow and Murray play outta their skins. However, Collins has a big motor (expecting him to play close to 80 and we have the depth. If we can keep the scores tight then I can picture there being a big spell where lazy farks like Shaq take to the field while we're rotating May, Crichton and Sandon onto the field.

Time it right and we'll break their back IMO. This is that team that lost 29-10 to the Knights and has probably spent the two weeks since getting loaded at 'Trell's farm, trying to stay away from the fact their two assistant coaches just walked out on them a week before finals.

If we time it all right... I see Collins, May, Crichton and Cheese walking straight through the front door of Cenno, demanding to speak with their branch manager. Since he's on holidays, Teddy/JAS/Billy will flog all their boxes of complimentary self-care pamphlets and be like 'what's up with you always acting for him ay? No dramas... we'll just deliver these to his farm then... he'll need 'em for Mad Monday'.

[BraveTheWorld]

Hate to say it, but I'm kind of feeling that Souths will win tonight. Coming off a rest and stewing about all the media stuff for the last two weeks, I think they'll be quite strong.

Having said that, I think if we start better than they do, that will go a long way to winning this one. The last thing we want is them getting their tails up early.

I'm actually more concerned over the loss of Toops than Manu and Hargreaves. Collins will pick up the slack for Jared, and we have other x-factor players to ease the loss of Manu. Toops though has been absolutely incredible since coming back from injury. Basically one of our top 3 players every game. He's a hard one to replace.

Absolutely nothing would be better than knocking these guys out of the finals race. I think it'll be close, but I've got some confidence due to the fact that our defense has been hugely improved over the last month or so.

Go the Chooks, and enjoy the game fellas.

[mattyh]

hate to say it but I think souffs win , good news is whenever I pick the oppo we often jag a win .

I think the outs of joey, jwh and toops are to much to overcome.

jwh really pissed me off last week , it didnt deserve 7 weeeks , but it was still dumb .

[Eggspert]

To close to tip anyone with any kind of confidence considering the year we've had & Manu, JWH, & Toops are huge outs.

They will be rested & ready to end our season also.

Would be fitting to go to Golden Point & Sammy Walker to win it with a field goal.

[QWERTY]

Not gonna lie, the team list is concerning.

We need to beat this guys, while swapping out Tupou, Manu, JWH, Watson and Tupouniua for Pauga, Allen, Baker, Sandon Smith and Wong...

Need Teddy, Keary, Walker, Cheese and Lindsay to have massive games if we are going to win this. Also big pressure on our interchange forwards. May needs to bring it.

Their team list isn’t that great either. Probably will come down to the spine players.

[Thirteen]

Have some confidence people. Our spine is in tact, Swarlee, Collins and Butch are in great form and Rads is due. We can get those scumbags.

[QWERTY]

Hopefully our right side D knows that when the play starts as far across to their right as possible and AJ is standing on halfway the ball is coming their way.

Also please watch out for Cooks sneaky scrum play from a few weeks back.

That scrum play is something we’d fall for lol

[QWERTY]

Have some confidence people. Our spine is in tact, Swarlee, Collins and Butch are in great form and Rads is due. We can get those scumbags.

Exactly. Aside from our team, souffs don’t have Burgess or Mitchell, and their starting side consists of reserve regulars such as Chee-kam and S.Mitchell. Not exactly superstars.

[ism22]

Have some confidence people. Our spine is in tact, Swarlee, Collins and Butch are in great form and Rads is due. We can get those scumbags.

Agreed mate. Not trying to downplay their importance but we have Manu, Toops and JWH out. That is all.

Souffs have Latrell and Burgess out. They've also just lost their two assistant coaches coz there's shyte going down internally.

The outs are pretty much eye for an eye IMO and we're in better form.

Last week we continued to pile on points with 12 on the field (no JWH), no Tedesco and no Manu. Winning's always easier when you're full-strength, but we're in form whereas they're on the slide!!!

This isn't round 10 when we were going down the drain and all the pundits were saying 'Souffs will finish top-4 easily'.

As a fan I live for these sorts of games where the boys have gotta dig deep!!! I don't bet money on footy games because there's no foregone conclusions. I believe we can win and wouldn't bother watching if I didn't. Heck... I woulda packed up in round 10 if there was no chance of us coming good!!!

[JAF]

Need a fast start or at least hold our own to break their spirit, then they will fold like a deck of cards.
I would swap Whyte for Crichton on the bench.
If we can win tonight, then I have no fear against the Knights or Sharks the following week.
But first things first ... let's CRUSH the Vermin tonight!!