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

[dice]

Some of their forwards already gone. This game far from over.

[King Salvo]

Hopeless, just hopeless. Friend's "service" from d/h is bad. What was Latrell doing letting that ball just bounce for florence to pick it up and scoot away?

Rubbish- Friend is not the problem- too many passes being made in attack and flat footed or going sideways - taking too long for the ball to get out wide as a result and easy for the defence to combat -Latrell needs to stand wider in attack and run onto the ball for instance and Tedesco needs to inject himself more into attack as well.

[TheLoneRooster]

That offload from JWH to Teddy is what we need more of

Spot on. Where has the offload gone?

[Lydon]

We look very poorly coached tbh, Friend's horrible service doesn't help but geez way too predictable....and dumb.

Agreed Elo,we look poorly Coached..

[Random Rooster]

So last week the video ref gets involved to send Latrell to the sin bin for a tackle on suspicion where the attacker wasn't going to score.....yet this week a blatant trip in front of 2 refs and the silence from the video refs box is deafening.
I think theres also a new NRL rule that Fergo can be tackled in the air as a attacker and defender.

[TheLoneRooster]

Some of their forwards already gone. This game far from over.

Love your optimism dice but I see this ending up as more of a dragqueens love fest than it is already.

[fletch]

hate to say it but we might be the worst team in the comp at completing the basics of attacking RL, terrible service from RL, can't complete a simple backline shift, awful completion rate (today is better than normal).

unless its a piece of brilliance from Keary/Mitchell/Teddy we simply don't look like scoring.

no idea why Robbo doesn't open up the attack and let the offloads flow, we usually make errors just playing the structured/yardage game, so why not take a chance.

[Lydon]

Cronk needs to ask more questions,sadly he looks too slow to threaten the opposition at the moment

[milanja]

Why can’t Cronk do that

Because he is 80 yrs old.

[TheLoneRooster]

The play the ball before the try didn't touch the foot.

I just checked and it looks like frizzell got the barest of touches to the ball.

[Guest]

hate to say it but we might be the worst team in the comp at completing the basics of attacking RL, terrible service from RL, can't complete a simply backline shift, awful completion rate (today is better than normal).

unless its a piece of brilliance from Keary/Mitchell/Teddy we simply don't look like scoring.

no idea why Robbo doesn't open up the attack and let the offloads flow, we usually make errors just playing the structured/yardage game, so why not take a chance.

Robinson is the worst coach in the NRL. He is nothing without Maloney and SBW.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

That try is gonna kill us. Again we are our own worst enemies. We are so predictable that its been easy for the dragons to shut down our attack

[LargeMike]

Cooper Cronk is so off the pace in this game it's not even funny.

It's like having Jake Friend at halfback. Everything is done at half pace and so many passes are missing their mark.

Just watch how slow he is when he carries the ball into the line, and that right foot stutter aint fooling anyone.

We were pretty much camped in their half for 39 minutes and we came away with 2 points.

****ing embarassing. Keary and Tedesco trying so hard but just cant get into the game because of the service they are getting from their dummy half and halfback.

People have been saying its all about ball control, territory, go forward and offloads but we have had all that today and have 0 tries to show for it.

Maybe people will be forced into actually analysing why out attack is so lacklustre now. The writting has been on the wall for a while now.

Victor Radley must stay on at lock and start getting into first receiver so that he can push Keary wider to 2nd receiver. Keary shouldn't be playing first receiver footy... its not his go.

Had no issue with pace last year with an inferior squad.

They run the same play every single time and the defence has no problem jamming him.

you just have to look at kick pressure and the vast difference between the two teams.

Robbo, time to go.

[TheLoneRooster]

hate to say it but we might be the worst team in the comp at completing the basics of attacking RL, terrible service from RL, can't complete a simple backline shift, awful completion rate (today is better than normal).

unless its a piece of brilliance from Keary/Mitchell/Teddy we simply don't look like scoring.

no idea why Robbo doesn't open up the attack and let the offloads flow, we usually make errors just playing the structured/yardage game, so why not take a chance.

Agree on all points. I've watched every other team play this year a couple of times at least and if the Roosters aren't the worst, they're near the bottom at all the things you've mentioned. Such a hopeless team.

Do I want to watch the second half?

[Lydon]

Because he is 80 yrs old.

Hunt is 29