2010 Thread

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Only the Roosters can spoon with their cocks

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Next season...

Where will we come?

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"Even after 43 years, we make spooning look cool !!!!"

see this is good therapy people !!!!

So was buying spoons and leaving one on BigFellas car the other night.....

Yes BF, we know it was a spatula.......but the thought was there......

[supermario]

Hey i have found our 2010 Mascot



WOODY !!!!!

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wat about this

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I'm of the opinion Willie Mason must not be at the Roosters in 2010. He does not give a hoot about the Roosters and has been 'retired' since coming to the Roosters.

Roosters.

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Well since I haven't done it in this thread, this is what I think our first grade team and squad should be next year, after much thought:

1. Anthony Minichiello (2010)
2. Sam Perrett (2012)
3. Mitchell Aubusson (2011)
4. Phil Graham (2011 - signed from Raiders)
5. Shaun Kenny-Dowall (2011)
6. Todd Carney (2013 - signed from Atherton, not confirmed)
7. Mitchell Pearce (2013)
8. Jason Ryles (???? - signed from Les Catalans, not confirmed)
9. Jake Friend (2012)
10. Nate Myles (2012)
11. Willie Mason (2010)
12. Daniel Conn (2011 - signed from Titans)
13. Braith Anasta (2011)

14. Ben Jones (2012)
15. Tom Symonds (2011)
16. Lopini Paea (2010)
17. FP Nuuausala (2011)


1. Luke Towers (????, in negotiations)
2. Steve Naughton (2011 - signed from Raiders NYC)
3. Kane Linnett (???? - signed from Dragons NYC)
4. Sonny Tuigamala (2010)
5. Sisa Waqa (2010)
6. Nick Kouparitsas (2010)
7.
8. Martin Kennedy (2010)
9. James Aubusson (2010)
10. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (2012 - signed from Manly NYC)
11. Anthony Cherrington (2012)
12. Aiden Guerra (2011 - signed from Storm)
13. Jason Baiteri (???? - signed from Eels NYC, not confirmed)

14.
15. Brad Takairangi (???? - signed from Souths NYC, not confirmed)
16. Stanley Waqa (2010)
17. Mose Masoe (2010)

Unsure: Smith Samau, Matthew Hall, Riley Brown, Iwi Hauraki, Ray Moujalli, Sean Rudder, Khalid Deeb, Tu'u Maori, Jimmy Andersen, Robbie Williams, Mark Talanoa, Valeni Tia Tia, Dylan Sharp, Ben Murray, Ray Tafokitau

[novice chook]

So was buying spoons and leaving one on BigFellas car the other night.....

Yes BF, we know it was a spatula.......but the thought was there......

I received my first roosters RW&B wooden spoon in the mail today. Figured out it was from my close friends Vermin loving boyfriend. Not that many people I know in the country area where the parcel originated from.

Cheeky bugger even put it in a "Congratulations" bottle bag with "Your Trophy" written on the card. Believe me I will be keeping these, and hoping to use it to return the favour in the next year or so.

And there's more ... the bastard also included a snippet from the paper about our season of shame. The summary was pretty telling:

Off field incidents: 8
Games won: 5
Position: Last.

THE ONLY WAY IS UP PEOPLES. (GOD I HOPE SO ANYWAY)

[Guest]

I'm of the opinion Willie Mason must not be at the Roosters in 2010. He does not give a hoot about the Roosters and has been 'retired' since coming to the Roosters.

Roosters.

And I am of the opinon that you have no frigin idea........

[Guest]

with the amount of depth we will have next year i believe we can cut the crap and have a solid side like below.


1.mini
2.Graham
3.Williamson/ Naughton
4. Linnet/ Naughton
5. Perret
6.Carney
7. Pearce
13. Anasta
12. Maubs
11. Myles
10. FPN/Paea
9. Friend
8. Ryles

14. Weara- Hargraves
15. Mason
16. Symonds
17. cherro???

jones, jaubs, skd, sa and either fpn or paea all go to newtown, with the players we have coming in there is no spot for them in fg next year.

i believe this is a well balanced side with the right mixture of youth and experience, speed and skill, which is what we need. although imo we still need to fill a bench spot, someone who is a big impact player, that can quickly inject themselves into the game, the same as an isacc luke or flannery - cherro maybe??

mason is at his best when he is fired up coming of the bench, and hargraves should add a lot when he comes on after the 5 minutes that fpn or paea will play.

good team lineup?

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with the amount of depth we will have next year i believe we can cut the crap and have a solid side like below.


1.mini
2.Graham
3.Williamson/ Naughton
4. Linnet/ Naughton
5. Perret
6.Carney
7. Pearce
13. Anasta
12. Maubs
11. Myles
10. FPN/Paea
9. Friend
8. Ryles

14. Weara- Hargraves
15. Mason
16. Symonds
17. cherro???

What about Kouparitsas and Conn?
Sisa Waqa?
And dont forget that upcoming Springbok Du Plesis

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1. Carney
2. Graham
3. Perrett
4. Williamson/Linnett
5. Miniciello
6. Anasta
7. Pearce
8. FPN/Paea
9. Friend
10. Ryles
11. Myles
12. Symonds
13. Maubs

14. FPN/Paea
15. JWH
16. Mason
17. Jones

Dont think anasta has the defensive workrate to play in the backrow and considering carney is fresh back to first grade/proffessional footy, easing him in from fullback would be advantageous. Also, considering fullback is practically 5/8 these days anyway, it would give anasta and carney the same sort of freedom as having them at lock and 5/8 respectively except we have maubs at lock who actually offers us heaps more in the backrow. i also think his running game is up to fullback and being a half means that he is good at reading the game which would prove invaluable when playing at the back.

I think we need mase to come off the bench for experience as i think ryles offers us enough experience, size and go forward in the opening exchanges. Myles has played his best footy in the backrow and everytime he has played there for us, he has shone. Losing fitzy means we need some people to shoulder his workrate and in maubs and myles in particular as well as symonds, i see a capacity to do that. The backrow is also well balanced - myles as a third prop and destructive/aggressive role, symonds as the creative wide-running backrower and maubs in the typical workaholic role at lock except given he is coming from the backline, his speed and skill would also prove beneficial up the middle of the ruck in attack and defence.

[Pass the Ball]

My take...

Phil Graham is a winger not a centre....

Carney is a halfback and a better halfback than Mitchell Pearce..

Anasta is a better 5/8 than Pearce...Where does this leave Pearce...???

Mitchell Aubbuson should be our lock to replace Fitzy...

JWH will end up starting games at prop..

Minichello is the best fullback at the club and he must be played there..

We need a centre badly...

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My take...

Phil Graham is a winger not a centre....

Carney is a halfback and a better halfback than Mitchell Pearce..

Anasta is a better 5/8 than Pearce...Where does this leave Pearce...???

Mitchell Aubbuson should be our lock to replace Fitzy...

JWH will end up starting games at prop..

Minichello is the best fullback at the club and he must be played there..

We need a centre badly...

Disagree on both of these.

For a long time, Raiders had a halves combination of Campese/Carney - however Raiders fans believed that this did not work as Carney is a better runner at five-eighth, and he is limited as a halfback. They all wanted a specialist halfback, with Carney to five-eighth and Campese to lock.

Graham has played more than 80% of his first grade games at centre, where he has been most successful. His pace is an asset a little bit closer in, where we need his incisiveness. He was also signed specifically as a centre too, so expect to see him playing there.

The rest, I agree with.

Unfortunately, we have two very good five-eighths, but it means that our best lock is forced into the centres (Morbs).

A bench of Jones (signed until 2012), Symonds (signed until 2011), Myles (signed until 2012) and Nuuausala (signed until 2011) could be the modern-day equivalent of our powerful early-2000's bench of Wing, Flannery, Morley and Lomu.

All we need to do is sort out our starting props (Ryles to hopefully be the experienced one, with Paea, Waqa, Kennedy, Masoe and JWH providing plenty of competition for that one spot), and our backrow (Mason to probably be the experienced one, with Conn, Kouparitsas, Cherrington, Aubusson and again JWH competing for that spot). Anasta at lock is almost a given, as is Friend at hooker.

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I would have:

1 Todd Carney
2 Anthony Minichiello
3 Tom Symonds
4 Phil Graham
5 Sam Perrett
6 Braith Anasta
7 Mitchell Pearce
8 Lopini Paea
9 Jake Friend
10 Frank-Paul Nuausala
11 Nate Myles
12 James Aubusson
13 Mitch Aubusson

14 Ben Jones
15 Martin Kennedy
16 Willie Mason
17 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves


Had some trouble filling the second row.
Decided on James Aubusson, he's a tackling machine and could be the answer to our problem of lacking a geniune workhorse backrower.

Thoughts?