SYDNEY ROOSTERS v MANLY WARRINGAH SEA EAGLES

[Waylander]

ROOSTERS v MANLY

Finals Week 2 - 7:50pm, Saturday 21st September
Allianz Stadium, Sydney

The 'Battle of the Beaches'. Knockout footy.

At last, the return of JWH. And damn, don't we need him. He is only one man, but Jazz is the catalyst for our forwards. Look for a VERY different performance from our pigs this week. He will set the standard, and the others will follow. I just hope & pray we get to keep him on the field this week, and the next if that should come to pass. Nothing I type can make a difference, but please Jazz ... nothing silly or dangerous ("careless" or especially "reckless"). You know you will be scrutinised to the Nth degree - don't give the bastards an excuse.

Teddy's 250th NRL game this week. He deserves to celebrate this with a win. He's really wound back the clock and has been enormous for us all year. One more big game this week thanks Ted.

Manly are not an easy side to predict. Turbo is playing busted, but his presence alone boosts them. He'll still be a big danger with ball in hand. They have plenty of size and pace, and DCE possesses a devilish kicking game. Brooks is a danger when running the ball, and he has a deft passing game when he is on. BUT, they are prone to defensive lapses ... especially Brooks who has missed a whopping 93 tackles. We must give him a working over. And DCE - making the opposition halves tackle all day is a proven effective strategy. If we can do the basics right, run hard & tackle hard, complete our sets and make them work out of their end, I believe we will be too strong. A fast start is paramount. No playing catch up this week. We need to play this game from the front. Good line speed, but maintain our discipline. Sounds easy when you say it, I've yet to see us play like that for 80 minutes in the last 5 years. This week, please!!

Apart from Jazz's return, Whyte starts at lock. Butcher and May join Wong on the bench and ZDC drops out. Rads has been named on the extended bench. Fingers crossed he's cleared to play.

Unavailable: Sammy, Cheese, Rads & Egan.
I'm not sure why I bother, but, the count is now: 125

Roosters by 8.


GO EASTS !!

ROOSTERS:
1. Teddy
2. Tupou
3. Sua'ali'i
4. Manu
5. Young
6. Keary
7. Smith, Sandon
8. JWH
9. Watson
10. Collins
11. Crichton
12. Tupouniua
13. Whyte

INTERCHANGE:
14. Wong
15. Leniu
16. Butcher
17. May

RESERVES:
18. ZDC
19. Pauga
20. Steep
21. Jennings
22. Radley


Match Officials:

• Referee: Grant Atkins
• Touch Judge: Phil Henderson
• Touch Judge: Matt Noyen
• Senior Review Official: Chris Butler

[QWERTY]

Pretty good side. Glad they kept Wong. If Radley doesn’t return this week, if we win for sure he’s back next week.

[Thirteen]

Good bench. Hopefully Victor comes in too. Will most likely be for Wong. Can’t wait to see Jarred attack Lodge.

4 more sleeps….

[Chook2]

Best side for a little while
if rads plays only cheese and walker out of the best 17
forward heavy bench I’d say robbo will move Wong on if rads plays but I would rather butch it sitili out of the 17
no back up hooker but again if rads plays we will be covered

manly have a quick backline, experienced halves and big forward pack
turbo is injured and we need to do what the dogs did and get up in his face to reduce his impact

the final 40 min v the riff game me some hope still this year - if not for some BS calls we had them 16 to nil in the 2nd half with 20 to go with 4 of our best 17 out
need a bigger game from Manu, and Keary and sandon to control the game well
our starting forward pack and bench is excellent let’s hope with jwh and rads back the mongrel is there over manly
chooks by 6

[caz]

yeah, good to see rads is there or thereabouts even if he doesn't play this week. will wait to see what team runs out but this team is good enough to get the job done

[PLV012]

ROOSTERS v MANLY

Finals Week 2 - 7:50pm, Saturday 21st September
Allianz Stadium, Sydney

The 'Battle of the Beaches'. Knockout footy.

At last, the return of JWH. And damn, don't we need him. He is only one man, but Jazz is the catalyst for our forwards. Look for a VERY different performance from our pigs this week. He will set the standard, and the others will follow. I just hope & pray we get to keep him on the field this week, and the next if that should come to pass. Nothing I type can make a difference, but please Jazz ... nothing silly or dangerous ("careless" or especially "reckless"). You know you will be scrutinised to the Nth degree - don't give the bastards an excuse.

Teddy's 250th NRL game this week. He deserves to celebrate this with a win. He's really wound back the clock and has been enormous for us all year. One more big game this week thanks Ted.

Manly are not an easy side to predict. Turbo is playing busted, but his presence alone boosts them. He'll still be a big danger with ball in hand. They have plenty of size and pace, and DCE possesses a devilish kicking game. Brooks is a danger when running the ball, and he has a deft passing game when he is on. BUT, they are prone to defensive lapses ... especially Brooks who has missed a whopping 93 tackles. We must give him a working over. And DCE - making the opposition halves tackle all day is a proven effective strategy. If we can do the basics right, run hard & tackle hard, complete our sets and make them work out of their end, I believe we will be too strong. A fast start is paramount. No playing catch up this week. We need to play this game from the front. Good line speed, but maintain our discipline. Sounds easy when you say it, I've yet to see us play like that for 80 minutes in the last 5 years. This week, please!!

Apart from Jazz's return, Whyte starts at lock. Butcher and May join Wong on the bench and ZDC drops out. Rads has been named on the extended bench. Fingers crossed he's cleared to play.

Unavailable: Sammy, Cheese, Rads & Egan.
I'm not sure why I bother, but, the count is now: 125

Roosters by 8.


GO EASTS !!

ROOSTERS:
1. Teddy
2. Tupou
3. Sua'ali'i
4. Manu
5. Young
6. Keary
7. Smith, Sandon
8. JWH
9. Watson
10. Collins
11. Crichton
12. Tupouniua
13. Whyte

INTERCHANGE:
14. Wong
15. Leniu
16. Butcher
17. May

RESERVES:
18. ZDC
19. Pauga
20. Steep
21. Jennings
22. Radley


Match Officials:
Referee: ??
Senior Review Official: ??

I'll update with the match officials once announced.

Godspeed !!!

E2W
RWB

[Roosterfarian]

Who plays hooker if Connor needs a spell or goes down?

[fletch]

Who plays hooker if Connor needs a spell or goes down?

Sandon Smith.

[HunchoRooster]

Interesting to see Mark N not even on the extended bench this week. I would've put him on the bench for some X factor. Could do a lot worse.

[Roosterfarian]

Sandon Smith.

and move Manu to halves..Sitili to centre?

Could work.

[Steggles]

and move Manu to halves..Sitili to centre?

Could work.

Sounds a bit like moving the house to tighten the clothesline. It also weakens every position involved.

Watson will need to go the full 80 mins and hope that he doesn’t get injured. Personally, I’d rather ZDC start, with Watson going back to 14 where he’s most effective, taking Butcher’s place on the bench. Watson’s greatest assets are largely nullified as a starting hooker, as we saw against Penrith.

[Bates]

I'm not overly confident.

Forwards really need to step up and dominate the ruck.

[BTRD]

Would be great to win. Forwards need to really aim up and play like men possessed. Give Young some space. Run straight.

DISCIPLINE.

Come on you mighty Chooks.

[player 1]

Atkins reffing.

Klein reffing the other semi. He can do no wrong with the NRL - he's doing what they pay him to do.

[Bates]

Atkins reffing.

Klein reffing the other semi. He can do no wrong with the NRL - he's doing what they pay him to do.

Thank fark!

Klown the drama queen strips the joy out of the game.