Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Sea Eagles

[Easts75]

I left with about 10min to go as it takes us about 1hr30min to drive home. I watched the end on my phone walking to the car and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Pathetic. With Garrick & Saab off I thought we were terrible in game management not picking them apart

[Steggles]

On a positive note, Jennings was good for us tonight and was so much better than Sitili at centre. I love seeing Toups and MJ do their thing on the left; brings back such great memories.

[QWERTY]

After recovering from whatever that performance was, overall there was a lot to like. The second half defence was outstanding for the most part, and clearly was better than the soft d in the first half. Our attack was also scintillating. A lot of our guys played great too. Walker ran the ball, Suaalii was great in d and his hitups. Teddy was sublime. Collin’s was immense. Tupou was his consistent best and Jennings turned back the clock. Butcher was great defensively, did a few minor dumb this but overall did his job.

However, my goodness, I cannot believe how dumb this team is. Specifically 2-3 tonight need to pull their heads in. I thought SKD was the most rocks and diamonds player I’d seen. Not so, as Dumb Young this year has taken the mantle. In one year he’s had done more stupid shite than SKD did in his whole career. I cannot comprehend why he doesn’t try and mirror what Tupou is doing, especially when taking hitups. Running sideways is the worst thing you can do when taking a hitup, especially close to the line. And that knock on he did was ridiculous. He also is surprisingly unfit. Dawdled a lot when returning the ball from Manly kicks. I’d drop him if we had the depth. If he doesn’t smart up he’ll cost us in a much more important game, mark my words. I’ll give him some credit in that that last try we scored could only have been due to his speed. He has so much potential but right now he’s squandering it.

Somehow though, there was a dumber player in the side tonight. Luke Keary, Jesus Christ. I am still shocked at how he threw those two intercept passes in the space of 3 minutes. 2 passes that really didn’t need to be pushed. As a senior playmaker, I just cannot wrap my head around him throwing those two passes. Inexcusable.

Also shout out to Brandon Smith for those two stupid kicks.

We had to win this game 3 times. That should never happen. There was a lot of good, and I guess if you remove those two Keary interceptions I’d be a lot more comfortable with the performance. I’m glad we got the two points, I think if we didn’t it would be the end of our season. You can’t come back from something that embarrassing. Hopefully Robbo blows a rocket up their backsides. We need to curb our stupidity fast. We have the squad to win the comp. We just don’t seem to have the brains yet.

Sorry for the carry on/ramble. This game just got to me.

[QWERTY]

Also, we won with 41% possession. That’s almost unheard of. Such a weird game, hopefully it is an aberration going forward

[bondi.boy]

Shut up idiot

Keary did a short restart kick and it didn't go 10m.
Could well have cost us the game.

[Bowie79]

A positive to come out of the game was Sammy Walker's performance.. He was a shining light as compared to what was embarrassing from Keary. Sadly neither he nor Teddy have the correct decision making when it comes to passing in high risk situations and gifted them 3 tries. Manly are the kings of intercepts especially with Cherry Evans in the side yet you'd think our most experienced players would've erred on the side of caution and avoided their high risk passing game in attack when we had the game in the bag.

[King Salvo]

I left with about 10min to go as it takes us about 1hr30min to drive home. I watched the end on my phone walking to the car and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Pathetic. With Garrick & Saab off I thought we were terrible in game management not picking them apart

You couldn't pick any more faults in Nat Butchers game so you left early

[player 1]

Not surprisingly, on top of the dumb intercept passes and errors like Dom's unforced knock on, we were again on the wrong end of a 10-4 penalty/6A count by Klein.

As pointed out by another poster we had 41% possession to Manly's 59%. It's very rare to win a game with 41% possession.

So in spite of our frustrating errors, it was in the end a tough performance defence wise to come away with the 2 points and a strong 3rd position on the ladder.

I was at the game and saw everything. Klein came up with some amazingly creative decisions to keep Manly in the game, as he can always be relied upon to do. What in the wide world of sports was wrong with Jennings' tackle on Saab?

Honestly, we dominated Manly but thanks to, admittedly a few intercepts and errors by us, but mainly by Klein, a 10-4 penalty count and some creative decisions by Klein-Kunt, Manly stayed close to us on the scoreboard.

I don't really care how we got there in the end. Any game we win with Klein in charge is a triumph of good over evil. He is truly a malevolent c.unt.

[King Salvo]

After recovering from whatever that performance was, overall there was a lot to like. The second half defence was outstanding for the most part, and clearly was better than the soft d in the first half. Our attack was also scintillating. A lot of our guys played great too. Walker ran the ball, Suaalii was great in d and his hitups. Teddy was sublime. Collin’s was immense. Tupou was his consistent best and Jennings turned back the clock. Butcher was great defensively, did a few minor dumb this but overall did his job.

However, my goodness, I cannot believe how dumb this team is. Specifically 2-3 tonight need to pull their heads in. I thought SKD was the most rocks and diamonds player I’d seen. Not so, as Dumb Young this year has taken the mantle. In one year he’s had done more stupid shite than SKD did in his whole career. I cannot comprehend why he doesn’t try and mirror what Tupou is doing, especially when taking hitups. Running sideways is the worst thing you can do when taking a hitup, especially close to the line. And that knock on he did was ridiculous. He also is surprisingly unfit. Dawdled a lot when returning the ball from Manly kicks. I’d drop him if we had the depth. If he doesn’t smart up he’ll cost us in a much more important game, mark my words. I’ll give him some credit in that that last try we scored could only have been due to his speed. He has so much potential but right now he’s squandering it.

Somehow though, there was a dumber player in the side tonight. Luke Keary, Jesus Christ. I am still shocked at how he threw those two intercept passes in the space of 3 minutes. 2 passes that really didn’t need to be pushed. As a senior playmaker, I just cannot wrap my head around him throwing those two passes. Inexcusable.

Also shout out to Brandon Smith for those two stupid kicks.

We had to win this game 3 times. That should never happen. There was a lot of good, and I guess if you remove those two Keary interceptions I’d be a lot more comfortable with the performance. I’m glad we got the two points, I think if we didn’t it would be the end of our season. You can’t come back from something that embarrassing. Hopefully Robbo blows a rocket up their backsides. We need to curb our stupidity fast. We have the squad to win the comp. We just don’t seem to have the brains yet.

Sorry for the carry on/ramble. This game just got to me.

Probably why Robbo is the Coach and you're an anonymous rambler on a unofficial club fan site.

They won which is all that counts

[Carlos Parra]

Not surprisingly, on top of the dumb intercept passes and errors like Dom's unforced knock on, we were again on the wrong end of a 10-4 penalty/6A count by Klein.

As pointed out by another poster we had 41% possession to Manly's 59%. It's very rare to win a game with 41% possession.

So in spite of our frustrating errors, it was in the end a tough performance defence wise to come away with the 2 points and a strong 3rd position on the ladder.

I was at the game and saw everything. Klein came up with some amazingly creative decisions to keep Manly in the game, as he can always be relied upon to do. What in the wide world of sports was wrong with Jennings' tackle on Saab?

Honestly, we dominated Manly but thanks to, admittedly a few intercepts and errors by us, but mainly by Klein, a 10-4 penalty count and some creative decisions by Klein-Kunt, Manly stayed close to us on the scoreboard.

I don't really care how we got there in the end. Any game we win with Klein in charge is a triumph of good over evil. He is truly a malevolent c.unt.

I love your work.

Perfectly said.

[Random Rooster]

Heads must roll after that rubbish. We are pretenders. And some of our tries were pure luck. 3 intercepts. Players need to be dropped. No wonder we can’t beat storm & riff.

Who would you drop and promote?

[JAF]

After recovering from whatever that performance was, overall there was a lot to like. The second half defence was outstanding for the most part, and clearly was better than the soft d in the first half. Our attack was also scintillating. A lot of our guys played great too. Walker ran the ball, Suaalii was great in d and his hitups. Teddy was sublime. Collin’s was immense. Tupou was his consistent best and Jennings turned back the clock. Butcher was great defensively, did a few minor dumb this but overall did his job.

However, my goodness, I cannot believe how dumb this team is. Specifically 2-3 tonight need to pull their heads in. I thought SKD was the most rocks and diamonds player I’d seen. Not so, as Dumb Young this year has taken the mantle. In one year he’s had done more stupid shite than SKD did in his whole career. I cannot comprehend why he doesn’t try and mirror what Tupou is doing, especially when taking hitups. Running sideways is the worst thing you can do when taking a hitup, especially close to the line. And that knock on he did was ridiculous. He also is surprisingly unfit. Dawdled a lot when returning the ball from Manly kicks. I’d drop him if we had the depth. If he doesn’t smart up he’ll cost us in a much more important game, mark my words. I’ll give him some credit in that that last try we scored could only have been due to his speed. He has so much potential but right now he’s squandering it.

Somehow though, there was a dumber player in the side tonight. Luke Keary, Jesus Christ. I am still shocked at how he threw those two intercept passes in the space of 3 minutes. 2 passes that really didn’t need to be pushed. As a senior playmaker, I just cannot wrap my head around him throwing those two passes. Inexcusable.

Also shout out to Brandon Smith for those two stupid kicks.

We had to win this game 3 times. That should never happen. There was a lot of good, and I guess if you remove those two Keary interceptions I’d be a lot more comfortable with the performance. I’m glad we got the two points, I think if we didn’t it would be the end of our season. You can’t come back from something that embarrassing. Hopefully Robbo blows a rocket up their backsides. We need to curb our stupidity fast. We have the squad to win the comp. We just don’t seem to have the brains yet.

Sorry for the carry on/ramble. This game just got to me.

Well said QWERTY - I agree with all of your points!

[Mad_Rooster_in_GraceLand]

Probably why Robbo is the Coach and I am a dimwitted rambler on a unofficial club fan site.

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[rented tracksuit]

Probably why Robbo is the Coach and you're an anonymous rambler on a unofficial club fan site.

They won which is all that counts

Q’s post got 8 likes. Yours… well, who’s counting eh?

[rented tracksuit]

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Exactly!