Burgess and Matterson to play dragons

[Rooster brown]

Burgess may take Tupou's spot while Matterson may make his FG debut.


https://26rounds.com/2016/04/24/upda...rson-to-debut/

[Vasco]

Tupou out injured. Must have had hand surgery.

Could be plenty of leaks with Ferguson and Elliott together.

[Rooster brown]

Could be, Elliot's defence has been pretty good so he might be able to hold it up. looking forward to these changes though

[The Axe]

Is Toupo "injured" or has he been dropped.
Excited for both players. We will appreciate MAtterson's size in the halves

[Double]

Tupou out injured. Must have had hand surgery.

Could be plenty of leaks with Ferguson and Elliott together.

Sea World could yet make a play... board and 5 square meals a day inc. utilities for Toups.

[The Axe]

Why SeaWorld?

[2026]

What's Matterson's kicking game like?

[Bigchook]

Not sure why we're blooding matterson. I would think our forward depth is still better than our halves depth and I'd rather see Guerra back at 5/8 with papali in the team again. Looks like jwh won't be back this week which is surprising.

[TheBigFella]

His kicking game must be pretty good to make the Australian side... It's going to look good with a Fittler size #6..

[2026]

Not sure why we're blooding matterson. I would think our forward depth is still better than our halves depth and I'd rather see Guerra back at 5/8 with papali in the team again. Looks like jwh won't be back this week which is surprising.

Agree BC.

I was surprised with the changes Robbo made vs Penrith.

Trent also stated this week that JWH in not quite ready and should be back for the Knights game.

[2026]

His kicking game must be pretty good to make the Australian side... It's going to look good with a Fittler size #6..

We could do with a big boot.

[Johnny.]

Is this Matterson a relation of Terry, our one time 5/8th?

[Jacks Fur Coat]

His kicking game must be pretty good to make the Australian side... It's going to look good with a Fittler size #6..

Looking at some pics of the lad he will
make Freddy look small.

Bold choice by Robbo to debut him in this game off a broken leg injury.

But we were criticising him for not making changes so...

[Bigchook]

Looking at some pics of the lad he will
make Freddy look small.

Bold choice by Robbo to debut him in this game off a broken leg injury.

But we were criticising him for not making changes so...

I certainly wasn't criticising him for not making changes. We're losing games because of injury and inexperience. Nothing else. I have no doubt we'll win more than we lose once jwh Pearce and cordner are back. Whether it'll be enough..

[ism22]

Not sure why we're blooding matterson. I would think our forward depth is still better than our halves depth and I'd rather see Guerra back at 5/8 with papali in the team again. Looks like jwh won't be back this week which is surprising.

FWIW there's photos of the final training session up on the Roosters' site. You can see Burgess, Frei, Matterson and JWH training.

No Cordner? Could just be an 'all in' training session... but maybe we'll see JWH and no Cordner? JWH loves ANZAC Day matches... if he does play, I hope it isn't a risky/emotional decision. I wanna see a JWH who is 100%... not some lamearse GI-style effort where you've got a guy with a busted knee playing with heavy strapping holding things together in place of a ligament.