Back to Back

[rented tracksuit]

Can we not play the Brisbane ladies and get our revenge for our ladies team. There props look tasty and might give JWH and Napa something to think about!

Would you get in trouble for calling their forwards pigs?

Don't we refer to the mens forwards as pigs?

[Team Evil]

I think we will be missing half our team come SOO.

[RoosterFanNZ]

I think we will be missing half our team come SOO.

always interesting to watch youngsters come through and see how they handle the pressure, there's a lot of them i wanna see in action

[eddie]

The brief high wears off quick these days.
Back to real life now.

Hope we win the bloody thing next year as well.............................

[Gary Worthless]

Nobody goes back to back. It's just a thing.

The 2019 premiers will be one of the 7 other teams from this years' top 8. Maybe Broncos or Penrith.

[The Axe]

Who do we play in the world club challenge.

Sutton, Sutton, cummins and associates

[The Axe]

The nrl will do everything in their power to prevent us going back to back. Their boast about having having different premiers every season shows whats wrong with their thinking.
I'm expecting more lop sided penalty counts against us, and more suspensions.
At least the shoulder charge is legal again.

So is the kick to the head of the player on the ground

[chicka]

At least they are consistent in their bias against the Roosters!

We didn't win many penalty counts in '13 and we copped some rough decisions in '18. There is a lot to be said for this bias. I can't make my mind up if (A) They are trying to make it a level playing field. (B) They really hate us and would do anything to stop us winning (which doesn't appear to be working) or (C) It's all a bit of reverse psychology and those in 'the know' lumped on the Roosters quietly in the knowledge that all the lemmings thought the Storm were certainties which was complete BS really.

[eddie]

So is the kick to the head of the player on the ground

Maybe next year can be open season on smith and munsters head.?
Another great melbourne tactic stolen by the opposition.

[ism22]

- Pom for Paulie (similar, neither will play much footy... if any)
- Morris for Fergo (NFI... probably less physical and less x-factor but a good finisher if he is still like he was in 2010 but man, that was a LOOONG time ago!! 9 Years ago he played for Australia... 9 years and I haven't heard him making any headlines since!!)
- Crichton for Matto (better in his position but less versitile)
- Cornish, Robinson, FPN [few others probably]... failed experiments

Back to back? I think we will be a decent team with a shot at doing alright with a bit of luck. However, 15 other teams will be studying how we won this year, the target will be on our heads as a result and we will have to work very hard.

Even this season... in hindsight being minor premiers and premiers was amazing! However, it coulda gone soooo differently but for a little bit of luck.

[RoosterJ]

- Cornish, Robinson, FPN [few others probably]... failed experiments

I thought FPN was fine for what he was bought to do, cover origin series/big injuries. If anything Collins and Co were preferred after that as they are our future players.

[The Axe]

Just shows how luck and poor luck is fine line. The farmer ahead of Collins in pecking order then farmers sister passed suddenly and Collins never looked back

[Easts75]

If Cronk goes around again ( im still doubtful) we will buck the trend and go back to back. The development of Radley ,Collins and addition of Chrichton leaves us with a very strong and mobile pack. It is very hard to do but can you also imagine if Mitchell & Manu improve again, even by 5 %. We are the team to beat

[QWERTY]

- Pom for Paulie (similar, neither will play much footy... if any)
- Morris for Fergo (NFI... probably less physical and less x-factor but a good finisher if he is still like he was in 2010 but man, that was a LOOONG time ago!! 9 Years ago he played for Australia... 9 years and I haven't heard him making any headlines since!!)
- Crichton for Matto (better in his position but less versitile)
- Cornish, Robinson, FPN [few others probably]... failed experiments

Back to back? I think we will be a decent team with a shot at doing alright with a bit of luck. However, 15 other teams will be studying how we won this year, the target will be on our heads as a result and we will have to work very hard.

Even this season... in hindsight being minor premiers and premiers was amazing! However, it coulda gone soooo differently but for a little bit of luck.

I think you are really underrating Ryan Hall. From what I’ve seen, he is great at finding the tryline, and is a powerful winger

[ccfc bondi]

Desire is the key. When you look at how we finished this season. Putting 44 points on the Eels to sneak homne with the minor premiership against the odds. Beating our nemesis a full strength Sharks in a Cronk masterclass by nine, Keeping South tryless, while posting three of our own, blasting the Storm out of the park to lead 18 nil at the break and wrapping up the grand final with a powerhouse defensive display. All that while supplying Cords, Mitchell, Teddy and Dylan to the SOO, having Latrell suspended for the Souths final and Cooper playing a grand final with a busted shoulder plus Fergo hanging in with a broken fibula.

Now that finish is like Kiwi coming down the outside to win the 1983 Melbourne Cup. We came home with a wet sail, brilliantly timed by Robbo and full of desire on the back of those circumstances. I was supremely confident we could take the Shield but the minor premiership was one I didn't expect. I think even the most ardent Roosters supporter would have been surprised as how strongly we came home in the finals series on top. Great performance and keeping that desire is the key. The talent is there.

Teddy and Cooper would have been really out to prove themselves after early season criticisms and a slow start by the team, plus all the Pearce talk. The front row of JWH and Napa would be looking to atone for the Cowboys game. Fergo too and in his final year. Joey Manu to prove he was NRL standard. Same for Matto once Crichton was signed and that kind of desire all played its part. Now Coops is a legend yet again and Teddy is talked of in Mini terms, Radley is a future rep player in the making.

What we'll miss is Fergo's skill, strength and yardage to run us out of our own end, his finsihing and leaping ability, Matto's versatility (and size) is gone. So it's up to the guys coming through, Butcher, Collins, Crichton, Smith and whoever else we recruit.

Plus we need the older guys like JWH, Friendy, Aubs and Cronk, who'll be in his mid-thirties to keep up that standard. I think it's a hard ask, but we have the team to do it. The Sharks showed this year how the old guys can keep you in the contest and but for injuries, we might have been playing them again in the grand final. The other side of this coin is that we may get even better. Now wouldn't that be grand. Robbo knows the disappointment of 2014 and will be working to ensure it doesn't happen again. Let's do a 74-75 number on the rest!

Yes, more than anything, we will miss Fergo getting us on a roll out of our own area. We'll see if either of our new signings can go some way to matching him.