Match Thread: Sydney Roosters vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs @ Allianz Stadium

[elo]

it was a differential , we couldnt

Nope it wasn't, Josh Reynolds offside at the ruck.

[Guest]

it was a differential , we couldnt

Why was it a differential?
I thought it was Bulldogs off-side at play the ball......?

[Guest]

We struggle on the heavy tracks
Hopefully we get some decent weather in coming weeks and can play some expansive footy and get some confidence back

[Kingbilly]

it was a differential , we couldnt

oh bullshit, it was a straight normal everyday penalty.
Even the referee asked Friend what he was going to do

[witty92]

He is absolutely hilarious.
And its even funnier because if he played for your team you would love him

i can see your point, i'd hate maloney if he played for anyone else. although ennis is a next level grub.

[liver1971]

He is absolutely hilarious.
And its even funnier because if he played for your team you would love him

nahhh even with my one eyed view i couldnt love him

[easts4eva]

I didn't know the penalty was differential I could have swore Hayne said to friend "so what do you want to do".

[liver1971]

Nope it wasn't, Josh Reynolds offside at the ruck.

id need to watch it again , but im sure youll find we couldnt go for goal .But if we could have ill admit
it was a stuuuupid mistake

[bondi paul]

Was the dogs field goal on the 7th tackle ?

[witty92]

Twice this week I saw articles saying we're the best team in the competition, NRL Power Rankings had us number 1 despite losing to Manly, and Voss came out and said we're still the top contenders. I completely fail to see why, we've looked average all year, not horrible, but not like a team that deserves to go back to back.

People keep talking up our goal line defence, it's good, but it's nowhere near what it was last year, compare the Round 3 Broncos game from this year to last and look just how much our defence has dropped. In attack our forwards are continually driven back and our backline aren't creating chances the way they did last year, Maloney/SBW/Jennings were making more Line Breaks than we knew what to do with in 2013, haven't seen any of that this year.

BUT, I'm not trying to say 'we're so ****ing shit, we're back to 2009, TR's lost it' etc. that i'm sure we'll see in countless posts over the next 2 hours, I don't think we're without a chance of winning this year, but the way we're playing now looks like an average Top 8 side, certainly not back to back material. But hey, i'll take it over 2009/11 8 days a week.

[witty92]

Was the dogs field goal on the 7th tackle ?

ball went dead from Pearce's field goal attempt, 0 tackle restart at the 20.

[Guest]

The biggest difference from last year is our inability to play quickly, play the balls seems so frustratingly slow.. Last year we had the teams turning around and making far more yardage with our sets. Making less than 50 meters in any set in todays game is abysmal, and unless we solve this and quick we'll lose a few more of these tight games unfortunately. Friend seems to be the only one who speeds up our sets from dummy half. Also what happened to our second phase? The opposition defense was only troubled when we spread the ball in the dying minutes. We're so much better than the bulldogs but we lost that one tonight due to pretty dumb play.

[stephenj]

i feel we lost it rather than they won it?

[liver1971]

im sure the dogs fans would have felt the same
It was an arm wrestle and we were out muscled again .As said elsewhere some of our key players
are lack confidence and playing in wet conditions was never going to help
Keep the faith

[Guest]

We played in wet conditions againt Parramatta and won by 50 points.

It is not the ground, it is not the referees. It is us and the opposition.

The past 2 weeks we have had, at some stage, JWH out, SBW out, and Maloney playing like rubbish. Arguably our 3 best players and we were in each game until the very end.

If we lost by 20+ in both games then it is time to worry. It isnt.