Official Match Thread - Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks vs Sydney Roosters

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CRONULLA-SUTHERLAND SHARKS v SYDNEY ROOSTERS

Competition: NRL
Round: 5
Date: Friday, April 6th
Sydney Kick Off Time: 6:00pm
Location: Southern Cross Group Stadium, Sydney

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Sharks: 1 Josh Dugan, 2 Sosaia Feki, 3 Jesse Ramien, 4 Ricky Leutele, 5 Valentine Holmes, 6 Matt Moylan, 7 Chad Townsend, 8 Andrew Fifita, 9 Jayden Brailey, 10 Matt Prior, 11 Luke Lewis, 12 Wade Graham (c), 13Paul Gallen (c)

Interchange: 14 Kurt Capewell, 15 James Segeyaro, 16 Avagalu Seumanufagai, 17 Joseph Paulo

Reserves: 18 Trent Hodkinson, 19 Kurt Dillion, 20 Edrick Lee, 21 Jack Williams

Josh Dugan (groin) returns at fullback, pushing Valentine Holmes to the wing and Edrick Lee to the reserves. Matt Moylan (hamstring) also makes an injury comeback at five-eighth with Trent Hodkinson dropping to the reserves, despite the Sharks winning both games Hodkinson has started.



Roosters: 1 James Tedesco, 2 Reece Robinson, 3 Latrell Mitchell, 4 Joseph Manu, 5 Blake Ferguson, 6 Luke Keary, 7 Cooper Cronk, 8 Sio Siua Taukeiaho, 9 Jake Friend (c), 10 Dylan Napa, 11 Boyd Cordner (c), 12 Ryan Matterson, 13 Isaac Liu

Interchange: 14 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, 15 Zane Tetevano, 16 Mitchell Aubusson, 17 Victor Radley

Reserves: 18 Nat Butcher, 19 Kurt Baptiste, 20 Mitchell Cornish, 21 Lindsay Collins

The Roosters are unchanged despite going down 30-6 to the Warriors at home last week.

[BenCumminsIsACheat]

How in the world does Reece Robinson make the team again after that abysmal performance. If we don't win this week I will have lost all confidence in Trent. His team selections are terrible and he is too afraid to make changes. We saw it last year with the aubusson and matterson in the centre's and now we're seeing it again with that left wing and prop positions. How many successful teams do you see with huge liabilities that the coach fails to address?

[RoosterFanNZ]

who wouldve thought that no one loses there spot after performing so badly

[Lydon]

Robbo doesn’t want to upset his boys,better to keep everyone in the team until Nick steps in and forces a change,ala Pearce for Cronk.

[BenCumminsIsACheat]

who wouldve thought that no one loses there spot after performing so badly

Exactly. Give the young and hungry guys from Wyong a go. At least they'll have a crack

[Grant Hedger]

Didn’t we get flogged last week? Clearly no-one’s fault! We’ll start making changes when we are on the verge of missing the 8. Till then, we’ll persist. Great plan.

[eddie]

How in the world does Reece Robinson make the team again after that abysmal performance. If we don't win this week I will have lost all confidence in Trent. His team selections are terrible and he is too afraid to make changes. We saw it last year with the aubusson and matterson in the centre's and now we're seeing it again with that left wing and prop positions. How many successful teams do you see with huge liabilities that the coach fails to address?

It ain't easy.
I'm bloody stupid coz I tipped us to put 40 on the warriors.
Question is, who does Robbo replace the other Robbo with? It seems to me that all the outside backs at Wyong are not Easts players.
Momorovski??? he has never really impressed me.

Sadly, this would've been the perfect time to hand Bernard Lewis his first grade debut, but alas....................

[Johnny73]

Surely this is a joke. Either that or Trent is being held hostage by the sandwich hand.

[crikey chris]

Interesting that out of the Reserves named, only Collins was NOT listed for Wyong.... Is a forward playing injured or will someone be dumped ?

[PeeGee]

Interesting that out of the Reserves named, only Collins was NOT listed for Wyong.... Is a forward playing injured or will someone be dumped ?

Remember 2016 and how bad Toups was (they were all bad but Toups was bad all year). Did Robbo drop him once........NO. If my memory still works, which it doesn't then only one only player dropped for poor form was Guerra (and I'm talking week after week of poor form and no enthusiasm).

Robbo will not drop anyone of his piss poor performers from last week, or any week. 1. He's got no other options. 2. The 'too hard to explain basket', i.e. JAKE.

[mattyh]

ill be surprised if we win tbh , very surprised

[PeeGee]

On Facebook the Roosters fans post is saying that Baptiste and FPN May prob get a run this week.

[The Axe]

Fpn is unfit. Weeks and weeks away from what I saw.

if Reece spoke French I’d swear he is in the team as Robbo’s Love child

[milanja]

who wouldve thought that no one loses there spot after performing so badly

Trent is following Ricky Stuart’s example by letting the players redeem themselves after such a poor performance.