Coaching Box Drama

[Vasco]

Oh, another one who doesn't read! Does it not bother you that Roosters fans have been dragging our club through the mud in a very public way in the last few games and the national media has picked up on it? I'm not even living in Sydney at the moment and I'm greatly disturbed by what's being said and done by a handful of so called fans who cannot control their obviously dysfunctional emotions at a football match.

How is a few fans firing up "dragging us through the mud" ?

Stop listening to Alan Jones and those that get paid to stir up conversation among the masses.

[Guest]

I hate this old skewed argument.

I pay a lot of money to watch a concert but have never ran up afterwards and abused the band.

I pay a lot of money to my landlord but have never ran up to him and abused him.

I pay a lot of money to use a taxi but have never abused the drivers.

Abuse is abuse is abuse. Its about the declining standards in behaviour that some people want to accept or even support.

You can have your say in a myriad of respectful ways at this very accomodating club without behaving like a neanderthal on a hunt and kill mission. Its not that difficult.

You don't earn the right to be disrespectful by paying a membership fee.

I go along with that.

Carrying on at the game is not the go. Alcohol does that to some people.

At the end of the day footy is footy people shouldn't get so worked up about it. Like I said alcohol does have that effect on some people sometimes.

Smith would have had experiences like that before in his career & as stupid as it is Smith would understand. He understands the passion that the game brings out of people.

[Jan]

Next time leave your wife and daughters at home.

That was not necessary in fact very disrespectfull.

[Guest]

The ones doing damage to our brand is smith & son.

If you want to watch a sport in silence whilst eating strawberries & cream, go watch wimbledon.

[theGman]

I go along with that.
Carrying on at the game is not the go. Alcohol does that to some people.
At the end of the day footy is footy people shouldn't get so worked up about it. Like I said alcohol does have that effect on some people sometimes. Smith would have had experiences like that before in his career & as stupid as it is Smith would understand. He understands the passion that the game brings out of people.

Old gripe about refs, same old result for Smith's plucky Roosters Greg Prichard
June 11, 2012

To their credit, Sydney Roosters coach Brian Smith and captain Braith Anasta said controversial decisions by the match officials - the majority of which went against their side - didn't cost them the game.
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It would be stretching it to make that excuse when you have been beaten by 18 points, but, hey, this is rugby league. Plenty of reasons have been thrown up to justify even bigger margins over the years.

''It turned the game a bit, but we did that to ourselves way more often than the referees did it to us,'' Smith said of the try by second-rower Alex Glenn, which came in the 43rd minute and with the Broncos leading 16-12. Brisbane winger Lachlan Maranta stole the ball, after an eternity, from Roosters centre Joseph Leilua and raced away without the referees stopping play. Glenn scored on the next tackle.

Anasta added: ''I wouldn't say it's cost us the game, because we cost ourselves the game. But it doesn't help and it's frustrating, and I don't know how to approach it any more.''

We're hearing you, Braith. No one knows how to approach some of the decisions that were made by the match officials yesterday, but referees bosses Bill Harrigan and Stuart Raper are going to have to try to find some way of working it out.

But if the match officials didn't cost the Roosters the game, and they had only two players - halfback Mitchell Pearce and centre Shaun Kenny-Dowall - out compared to nine for the Broncos, then what does it say about how the Roosters are going with 12 rounds left before the finals? Nothing good, when it comes to their chances of doing something this season. They have lost four straight games and six of their last seven to fall to 14th place.

Asked if he thought the season was slipping away, Smith replied: ''Yeah, it feels like that. We've probably got to win seven games from where we are now, maybe eight. There's plenty of time left if we're good enough.''

But the next five rounds for the Roosters go like this: Wests Tigers away, Manly at home, bye, Cronulla away and South Sydney at home. On present form they would start as outsiders in each of those four games.

When the Roosters won four of their first six games this season, it didn't appear a true reflection of where they were at. Things looked more realistic when they lost the next two, leaving them with a win-loss record of 4-4, but now they are 5-8.

Brisbane put the heat on the Roosters early, and scored first to make it 6-0. The Roosters fought back to level things up, and then the Broncos made it 10-6. But the Roosters looked like going to the half-time break with the lead, 12-10, until Brisbane halfback Peter Wallace was awarded a controversial try when it appeared he may have been guilty of a double movement.

In the second half, the Broncos got away to a 22-12 lead that the Roosters cut to six, and a 28-16 lead that the Roosters also cut to six, so it is clear the Roosters kept trying. But two tries in the last five minutes to Brisbane finally blew the score out.

A Roosters fan could be heard making abusive comments directed at the Roosters' coaching box late in the game. Asked whether he had heard it, Smith said: ''I heard the abuse, but that goes with the territory. I don't think there was anything offensive, it's just what coaches commonly get when their teams aren't winning.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...#ixzz1xTu63CNo

[mightyrooster]

That was not necessary in fact very disrespectfull.

Very disrespectful to us female supporters who are no less passionate than you guys.

[Thirteen]

They probably would of been kicked out if they did it at the club.

As was said previously this would normally be embarrasing but in this instance it was thoroughly deserved.

Maybe a bit of acute embarrasment is what's needed, nothing else seems to work.

I was kicked out at the club when I voiced my opinion.

[roosterproud]

well that article was written from the presser

[kurtsherlock6]

I was kicked out at the club when I voiced my opinion.

LOL, what did you say?

[Guest]

We're all really scared you ****ing keyboard hero. What would you have done? Cried for them to stop making fun of smiffy?

Smith deserves any abuse he gets.

Danish, you and I havnt always got along but I have to agree with you here. Those who accept this bullshit we are being dished up are causing more trouble than those who are actually making a stand and voicing their opinions. If nothing gets said, nothing will will be done to fix it. Those who accept the mediocracy dont deserve to celebrate in the teams success when it comes because there is no way in hell that sort of support can get the team anywhere except average. Its a competition and average (or in our case below average) is simply NOT enough.

I wasnt there to witness yesterdays antics but I 100% with the stand the supporters took. Their execution may have been a little messy but the idea of voicing directly, I cant agree with more.

[Guest]

I was kicked out at the club when I voiced my opinion.

Are you the idiot in the blue shirt?

[Guest]

I was kicked out at the club when I voiced my opinion.

Good point. Seems like it was the right place to speak out. At the club, they are a protected species.

[Thirteen]

LOL, what did you say?

I yelled out "no more excuses" while ricky Stuart was addressing the crowd after another pathetic performance. Ironic cause I'd love to have Stuart coaching us again.

[Guest]

Once again I left very early. Around 15 minutes to go. I walked past Smith and just shook my head. Matt Elliott and that guy with the hideous moustache saw me.

[Thirteen]

Are you the idiot in the blue shirt?

Yes, also known as Adam!