Roosters vs Merge NYC Prelim

[fletch]

hopefully the boys can make the GF and actually give us a reason to tune in on GF day.

will be a tough game against the merge who lead a lot of the metres gained/field possession stats in the NYC.

going to need huge games from the usual suspects in Garvey/Butcher/Manu and less errors from Cooper to get us across the line today.

game kicks off at 5:15pm live on foxsports 1

1. Kiah Cooper 2. Bernard Lewis
3. Joseph Manu
4. Jarred Anderson
5. Johnny Tuivasa-Sheck
6. Paul Momirovski
7. Jesse Marschke
8. Poasa Faamausili
9. Grant Garvey
10. Ben Thomas
11. Reuben Porter
12. Victor Radley
13. Nat Butcher
INTERCHANGE
14. Brendan Frei
15. Sitili Tupouniua
16. Jarrett Boland
18. Sukamanu Raki

Read more at http://www.roosters.com.au/news/2016...Fj7hFt22CoL.99

[fletch]

unfortunately we are playing like the 2016 version of our first grade team, so many simple handling errors is killing us.

interesting statistic that we have never won a final in NYC at Allianz.

[fletch]

our back 3 are so bad fielding kicks, can't even take simple bombs with no pressure.

[fletch]

Manu carving up on the right edge but with no polish, should of set up several tries but threw stupid passes at the death.

my god our back 3 are horrendous.

another easy dropped kick by Kiah Cooper might have just doomed us.

[fletch]

down 14-0 at HT.

boys tried hard but 4 times we dropped the ball inside our 20 that led to the entire merge score.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Our halves are terrible, how can a half have zero kicking game whatsoever. That is killing us.

[Headless Chook]

Our halves are terrible, how can a half have zero kicking game whatsoever. That is killing us.

I was coming on here to post the same thing. Momarovski is a centre masquerading as a 6 who at least offers a bit of attacking threat when he runs the ball. Our half back is just totally legless in all facets of the game

[fletch]

Our halves are terrible, how can a half have zero kicking game whatsoever. That is killing us.

didn't help that Hastings was doing most of the kicking during the back end of the season and was ruled ineligible to play finals.

[fletch]

took 41 minutes to get our first penalty

[Cockadoodledoo]

Nice pass though by Marskhe and great run by Radley who is impressive again.

[Lydon]

The fullback is out of his depth

[fletch]

that's better straight hard running and score on the back of a penalty.

Radley easily our best so far tonight

[Cockadoodledoo]

Manu throws his third interception.

[Lydon]

Manu screwing our chances up

[fletch]

Manu channelling his inner SKD, rocks and diamonds