Official Match Thread - St George-Illawarra Dragons vs Sydney Roosters

[Lemon_Goat]

Politis should probably stick to buying and selling cars rather than footy players

Yeah. Damn that Politis and his dumb purchases like SBW and Tedesco. His buys have been fine. Its the old guard (Cordner, JWH, Friend) that's been underperforming.

[David Bill Williams]

After an article came out this week quoting Jake Friend saying he told Robbo he needed less minutes to have an impact in attack. Robbo proceeds to play Friend for 80 min the same week

[roosterchook]

This is a very, very poorly coached team. We need a real coach ASAP. I’m sick of Robinson’s excuses. He can’t get it right and we are becoming a laughing stock in the RL world. Most ineffective tackles = roosters, most errors= roosters, worst disciplined team= roosters. Most ineffective attack= roosters.

I wish Nick would get someone who knows how to coach. Robinson doesn’t have a clue. Just look at how they play as if they don’t know each other and haven’t got a clue what to do next. Disgraceful.

[stringaz]

Yeah. Damn that Politis and his dumb purchases like SBW and Tedesco. His buys have been fine. Its the old guard (Cordner, JWH, Friend) that's been underperforming.

Cronk had a great game did he? Thats who the comment was directed at not some guy from 4 years ago champ

[The Skeez]

Well done Keary. He has tried everything and finally something came off.

Keary?? He nearly fkn blew it!
Tauks quick play the ball, *gulp* Friend pulls off a short ball for the Hotstepper Tedesco, open them up then into the back field for a 50/50 kick.
I'll put the play down for Tauks

[crikey chris]

WTF . . Do they actually train together as a team during the week???????

[Bronte Chook]

WTF . . Do they actually train together as a team during the week???????

Or are they trained together with ‘good, proper coaching’ asa team?

[Bronte Chook]

Good to see Robbo give Butcher 10mins. His interchanges confuse me at the best of times.

[Vasco]

Cronk would get better service from Telstra.

Friend is like an old racehorse struggling to compete at the top level.

We made Ben Hunt look like Allan Langer today.

[Johnny Brass]

I might be in the minority here but I thought we went pretty good today. We let a try in the first minute when Friend chased Hunt and matto was a bit lazy covering on the inside and Fergo muffed a ball he should have taken.
Then we let one in the last minute after Manu missed nightingale badly. Our forwards dominated that first half and we had a couple of bad calls go against us. Aubo got pinged for an incorrect play the ball after making a half break and badger raced in to make sure Mccinnes was only penalised and not sin binned for taking Keary out .
2nd half we were going ok until Klein gave them a rubbish penalty for inside the 10 after MacDonald dropped it .
We got pinned on our line after that with repeat sets of which tets got called for a knock on after it hit him on the chest. MacDonald then scored off another ordinary decision .
Tedesco was terrific at the back and aubo defended well in the centres. Latrell looked dangerous whenever he had opportunities which were few and far between . Jared and Sst were great off the bench against a very good team.
Cronk is under pressure everytime he kicks on the last tackle because of friends inability to pass quickly off the deck left to right.
We are 4/4 it's too early to get the razor blades out and start slitting wrists .
Robbo should hand over his interchange to someone else he has been shown up constantly in this regard .

[Salvatori Grubber]

. I’m beginning to think we were a much better side with Pearce. Cronk seems like a nothingplayer in attack as does Tedesco. I just wonder if we let go players we shouldn’t have because we’re much worse this year.

I hear ya man, but tbh the Peaece experiment was a fail. 1 Prem from how many top 4 finishes?

[roosterchook]

I hear ya man, but tbh the Peaece experiment was a fail. 1 Prem from how many top 4 finishes?

The Cronk/Keary combo just doesn’t seem to be working. Robinson’s had all pre season and now 8 games to make it work but it’s just not working. Question is will we even make the 8 this year? I hope we do come good but it looks bleak atm.

[Salvatori Grubber]

The Cronk/Keary combo just doesn’t seem to be working. Robinson’s had all pre season and now 8 games to make it work but it’s just not working. Question is will we even make the 8 this year? I hope we do come good but it looks bleak atm.

I agree entirely, but still prefer it to having Pearce. Coming 2nd ain’t much better than coming 7th, know what I mean?

i feel that we can do this. If Friend could just learn to pass chest height and in front of his receiver, and Robbo employed me to run the interchanges, we’d be sweet.

[One Eyed Willy]

I might be in the minority here but I thought we went pretty good today. We let a try in the first minute when Friend chased Hunt and matto was a bit lazy covering on the inside and Fergo muffed a ball he should have taken.
Then we let one in the last minute after Manu missed nightingale badly. Our forwards dominated that first half and we had a couple of bad calls go against us. Aubo got pinged for an incorrect play the ball after making a half break and badger raced in to make sure Mccinnes was only penalised and not sin binned for taking Keary out .
2nd half we were going ok until Klein gave them a rubbish penalty for inside the 10 after MacDonald dropped it .
We got pinned on our line after that with repeat sets of which tets got called for a knock on after it hit him on the chest. MacDonald then scored off another ordinary decision .
Tedesco was terrific at the back and aubo defended well in the centres. Latrell looked dangerous whenever he had opportunities which were few and far between . Jared and Sst were great off the bench against a very good team.
Cronk is under pressure everytime he kicks on the last tackle because of friends inability to pass quickly off the deck left to right.
We are 4/4 it's too early to get the razor blades out and start slitting wrists .
Robbo should hand over his interchange to someone else he has been shown up constantly in this regard .

Agree with most of that Johnny
im struggling to understand how we want to play completion football so we don’t offload but we let our forwards tip on at the line when we are working out of our own end and have defended for extended periods of time.
Its a far greater lower percentage play then looking to offload in traffic considering we have a player like teddy in the team.
You need to play to your strengths and we aren’t.

[Mickie Lane]

Bloody disappointing was that Anzac day game.
Mate how many Dragons supporters were there? It would have been 28k Dragons & about 12k Roosters supporters.
There a bloody good side the Dragons especially their forwards, it allows Hunt & that champion Widdop to control the game. Big Nene was good as well.
If people doubt the Dragons are the real deal then I will continue this convo in September. The Dragons will finish higher than the Roosters on the ladder 1 million percent.
De Belin & Sims are playing tough footy & were all over Cordner & Liu.
If I was Freddy I would pick the Dragons pack minus Graham with Klemmer taking his place with Sharon, Trbojevic, Cords & Cook on the bench.