Roosters vs Raiders Match Day Thread

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Hard to find too many positives from that one.

I can only assume it was a psychological thing...the big game Friday coming up and the too easy win last week had the guys in a vulnerable state this week.

Not a good enough excuse though...even strike players SBW and Jennings were not dominant like we need.

16*0 up you should never get rolled...hope we don't regret this one later in the year.

But I'm sure the guys know all this.

[bondi-boy]

We'll regret it.

Someone should tell the guys it again....obviously they've forgotten.

[Guest]

Bring back brian smith!

[chook 56]

Bring back brian smith!

Finally!
The voice of reason.

[davos]

Finally!
The voice of reason.

Can someone check alfredo for a pulse.

[chook 56]

No need to panic. It was always going to happen. If not this game, one very soon.
A young team still learning to play together...warts & all.

Hopefully they take the loss & build a better backbone because of it.

Early days.

[davos]

In early 2010, we lost by around 50 points to a dogs side that didn't even make the finals that year.

It wasn't till a masterstroke late in the season where Carney was finally moved to 5/8th, which got us rolling.

I'd be very surprised if Roger is kept cold on the wing outside of kenny dumbarse, trying to catch his 4m forward passes.Robbo should know what to do.

[ism22]

In early 2010, we lost by around 50 points to a dogs side that didn't even make the finals that year.

It wasn't till a masterstroke late in the season where Carney was finally moved to 5/8th, which got us rolling.

I'd be very surprised if Roger is kept cold on the wing outside of kenny dumbarse, trying to catch his 4m forward passes.Robbo should know what to do.

Yeah that pass was an epic fail.

Definitely not Brian Smith days again but a lot to work on (which Robbo has been saying every week... this week just makes it more obvious because we lost.)

Also he wasn't blaming the refs (won't go there - although I feel the turning point was when Maloney did a kick and chase, a Raider bumped him out of his path so he couldn't score, then grabbed the ball to run 40m.) Won't go there but that and the fact they didn't stop the clock when packing the scrums in the last minute made me feel we could have gotten out of gaol if things went our way on a few occasions.

End of the day we shouldn't have let them put 24 on us and I like how Robbo constantly looks for OUR mistakes rather than the refs and politics of the game. I'll leave the Eels and knights to do that one.

[elo]

That was a dud kick by Baloney ism, didn't think he was illegally blocked either tbh, we needed to spread it left, the Raiders were completely shot out wide.

[Andrew Walker]

The only real complaint i had about the referees Was when after one of our players was tackled he complained about it being ok and the refereee said no it is ok you fell into that

Unless the rules have changed i didnt think that mattered

[stephenj]

easy fix, swap skid and rts around, should have done it during the game last night?

[stephenj]

chechin crawled out of his closet to give us a hard time last night, only fair reffing was from diamond!

[Guest]

1. RTS
2. Tupou
3. Jennings
4. SKD(last chance only because we'll miss his metre making, he should cut out his dumb shit though)
5. Oldfield
6. Maloney
7. Pearce
8. JWH
9. Friend(80 mins)
10. Moa
11. Guerra
12. SBW
13. Cordner

14. Evans
15. Bosden
16. Lui
17. Maubs

[bondi-boy]

That was a dud kick by Baloney ism, didn't think he was illegally blocked either tbh, we needed to spread it left, the Raiders were completely shot out wide.

And there was the game, right there.

[Guest]

Geez guys give up on the SKD bashing he aint going nowhere,,,
Cant expect him to defend every try did yous forget we keep two teams to nil in our last two games and most of the attack came against skds side and he did well but as soon as he lets in 1 try lets sack him

You guys have an oppsession get over it his not perfect but who is