All you Mini lovers...

[Guest]

Fitzy I know you are a diehard Roosters supporter and like all of us only want to see us winning and winning well. I've always thought you were a fair poster and you are being absolutely reasonable in your criticism of Mini. This forum is here for us all to do exactly that (Christ I sound like backwards). To be honest you cracked me up by calling everyone who disagreed with you an idiot.

In regards to Mini I really feel bad about the situation. He is our fullback and captain and a club legend. Yes he probably should have retired last year. However, have you ever noticed that our own supporters are his harshest critics. Whenever, I talk to supporters of other teams they all think Mini goes okay. Mini is in the unfortunate position that every time he makes an error or has a bad game people will be calling for him to hang up the boots. Yes he made two very poor errors on Saturday but I thought he went okay otherwise.

Perhaps I am looking at this situation a little too optimistically. However, there is a reason. In a sense we need him to go well for the sake of the club. We can't sack our captain and most experienced player. If he were to retire mid-season it would also be a major disruption. The other choice is for him to move to the wing which may be the best option. Although we are not sure if RTS is ready and able and it is also very unusual to have a winger as captain.

Uncle Nick has assembled a gun squad. I'm talking about about not only the first grade team but the coaching and support staff and the likes of POS. I think we are primed for a serious crack at the title, perhaps this year but certainly next year. Having a lack of stability in the captain/fullback role could well derail those ambitions.

Are we flogging a dead horse with Mini? Maybe, but I think we can still squeeze a bit of life out of him yet. I honestly believe he will still be here in 2014.

p.s. I'm actually more concerned about Jake Friend than Mini.

Top post chicken boy. Agree with everything you said. Mini is the best option at the back right now. In 10-12 rounds time it may be a different story. Friend IS our biggest worry. We need creativity and out of dummy half and Morts and Nafe can't give us that. They can provide spark but not creativity. Opposition teams only have to focus on nullifying Pearce's time with the footy because there not worried about what Jake is doing ( which is not much). I'd love for jake to prove me wrong but I don't think he has it in him. The issue is our 20's hooker (Antonelli I think his name is) plays a lot like Jake. Gets through plenty of defence but doesn't look very creative( mind you I haven't seen a whole lot of him) I really hope POS is on the look out for a player to fill that role

[Guest]

It is not the fact Mini makes mistakes, every player does, however in Mini's position it invariably costs us points, the momentum he gave the warriors with that simple dropped ball almost cost us again.

So many times last year mini looked great, then made simple, regulation errors that cost us points and the game.

Even the game against the vermin, Jennngs looked like a goose with that pass that mini dropped, however it was mini's bad positioning that farked the try, Jennings was positioning Tupou only to catch a glimpse of mini, mini should have gone inside and given another option.

Poor decision making comes with age, how old is Pearce again??

You cannot defend the indefensable

He has to move to the wing or find a season ending injury as sad as that is too say

[Guest]

Fitzy I know you are a diehard Roosters supporter and like all of us only want to see us winning and winning well. I've always thought you were a fair poster and you are being absolutely reasonable in your criticism of Mini. This forum is here for us all to do exactly that (Christ I sound like backwards). To be honest you cracked me up by calling everyone who disagreed with you an idiot.

In regards to Mini I really feel bad about the situation. He is our fullback and captain and a club legend. Yes he probably should have retired last year. However, have you ever noticed that our own supporters are his harshest critics. Whenever, I talk to supporters of other teams they all think Mini goes okay. Mini is in the unfortunate position that every time he makes an error or has a bad game people will be calling for him to hang up the boots. Yes he made two very poor errors on Saturday but I thought he went okay otherwise.

Perhaps I am looking at this situation a little too optimistically. However, there is a reason. In a sense we need him to go well for the sake of the club. We can't sack our captain and most experienced player. If he were to retire mid-season it would also be a major disruption. The other choice is for him to move to the wing which may be the best option. Although we are not sure if RTS is ready and able and it is also very unusual to have a winger as captain.

Uncle Nick has assembled a gun squad. I'm talking about about not only the first grade team but the coaching and support staff and the likes of POS. I think we are primed for a serious crack at the title, perhaps this year but certainly next year. Having a lack of stability in the captain/fullback role could well derail those ambitions.

Are we flogging a dead horse with Mini? Maybe, but I think we can still squeeze a bit of life out of him yet. I honestly believe he will still be here in 2014.

p.s. I'm actually more concerned about Jake Friend than Mini.

Classy post

[stsae]

It is not the fact Mini makes mistakes, every player does, however in Mini's position it invariably costs us points, the momentum he gave the warriors with that simple dropped ball almost cost us again.

So many times last year mini looked great, then made simple, regulation errors that cost us points and the game.

Even the game against the vermin, Jennngs looked like a goose with that pass that mini dropped, however it was mini's bad positioning that farked the try, Jennings was positioning Tupou only to catch a glimpse of mini, mini should have gone inside and given another option.

Poor decision making comes with age, how old is Pearce again??

You cannot defend the indefensable

He has to move to the wing or find a season ending injury as sad as that is too say

Logic, you're bang on, can't argue with any of that.

And nice use of PearceOrff, you still got it maaaaaaaaaaaaate.

[Guest]

Logic, you're bang on, can't argue with any of that.

And nice use of PearceOrff, you still got it maaaaaaaaaaaaate.

I'm always right, just ask me

[stsae]

I'm always right, just ask me

Golden.

I do hope we are wrong with both players though mate.

[Guest]

i remember when the chookpen was good .

I remember when Mini was good..

[Guest]

Fitzy I know you are a diehard Roosters supporter and like all of us only want to see us winning and winning well. I've always thought you were a fair poster and you are being absolutely reasonable in your criticism of Mini. This forum is here for us all to do exactly that (Christ I sound like backwards). To be honest you cracked me up by calling everyone who disagreed with you an idiot.

In regards to Mini I really feel bad about the situation. He is our fullback and captain and a club legend. Yes he probably should have retired last year. However, have you ever noticed that our own supporters are his harshest critics. Whenever, I talk to supporters of other teams they all think Mini goes okay. Mini is in the unfortunate position that every time he makes an error or has a bad game people will be calling for him to hang up the boots. Yes he made two very poor errors on Saturday but I thought he went okay otherwise.

Perhaps I am looking at this situation a little too optimistically. However, there is a reason. In a sense we need him to go well for the sake of the club. We can't sack our captain and most experienced player. If he were to retire mid-season it would also be a major disruption. The other choice is for him to move to the wing which may be the best option. Although we are not sure if RTS is ready and able and it is also very unusual to have a winger as captain.

Uncle Nick has assembled a gun squad. I'm talking about about not only the first grade team but the coaching and support staff and the likes of POS. I think we are primed for a serious crack at the title, perhaps this year but certainly next year. Having a lack of stability in the captain/fullback role could well derail those ambitions.

Are we flogging a dead horse with Mini? Maybe, but I think we can still squeeze a bit of life out of him yet. I honestly believe he will still be here in 2014.

p.s. I'm actually more concerned about Jake Friend than Mini.

Nah fair post mate.

Like you said it's an internet forum but people on here take it too personal. If I went back and looked at everyone's posts they all would of at some stage bagged a player or a coach.

Does that make them a bad supporter? Does it mean they don't personally like the player? Of course not.

At the end of the day I just want what is best for the club.

[Guest]

Nah fair post mate.

Like you said it's an internet forum but people on here take it too personal. If I went back and looked at everyone's posts they all would of at some stage bagged a player or a coach.

Does that make them a bad supporter? Does it mean they don't personally like the player? Of course not.

At the end of the day I just want what is best for the club.

You should know better than to knock a "club man". Some of us tried that with slug Perrett and were almost beaten to death with roosters pom poms.

[Vasco]

People have defended him by saying "he took bombs and his field position was good..." etc.

At the end of the day that is his minimum requirement anyway.

The bottom line is that he is no longer a first grade standard fullback.

In fact he would be close to the worst in the NRL.

This is bad news for the Roosters given it is one of the most important positions o the field.

[player 1]

As none of you have suggested bringing back Alan McKean to wear the number 1, I rest my case that none of you know the first thing of what you are talking about!

[Darkone]

all is quiet on the Mini front?

How unusuall....

Mini haters in hibernation??

[Guest]

It's all about Pearcey this week Darkhole

[Guest]

all is quiet on the Mini front?

How unusuall....

Mini haters in hibernation??

He made a decent tackle on Thaiday last night which was an exact carbon copy of the one he stuffed up last week with Maloney.

He also knocked a few bouncing balls dead rather than run around it like last week.

I'm a fair person and I give him credit on those things.

The fact is still he is never going to contribute to our attack.

He won't magically find his lost pace.

He won't discover a passing or kicking game.

I don't think that's being critical or unfair it's just a fact of life that 33 year old's won't improve, they usually get worse.

Anyway good win. We play with that passion we will beat plenty of teams this year.

[stephenj]

mini had a good game last night defused a lot of ingoal ball with sensable kicks, got out of the backline in attack and pulled off some very good defence!