Anyone who says they aren't nervous about next week are lying.

[Tommy Smith]

Make sure you have another go at Tommy Smith for appearing to death ride us.

Lol indeed.

Ray is as milquetoast as they come evidently and yet will call me a half arsed fan for suggesting that Thursday's defeat was one of those "losses we had to have" (just like 2013 and 2018).

And yet here is Ray bending over and offering up his quivering pucker to a shitty Souffs team.

With our troops back and everything to play for we'll absolutely murder these lowlife gimps.

I'm so happy the Warriors won and we avoided a brutal encounter vs a fresh Raiders team.

Roosters by 28. Get excited, Ray. We'll smash them.

[Kingbilly]

Is that homophobe B. Sutton still in charge of appointments? If so I wouldn’t expect to see Cec. That will chin get the premier game of the weekend.

I actually think that Melb v Canberra will be the premier game. I think it will be closer than ours That will hopefully mean we don't get dud referees

[ROC181]

WE have all the players to win the GF if we had to play it 3 times against any team BUT all we need to do is cut out this dropping the ball on the try line. I'm sure we are coming first in that dept.

[bondi.boy]

I’m not worried one bit and I’m not lying at all.

We will obliterate Souffs.

Like we did the other night?
They beat us then and they'll beat us again, if we don't come up with something new and mistake-free.

Trent should've rested more players, JWH, Latrell and Teddy.
He didn't, now look what's happened.

If the refereeing is the same as the other night, we're no hope...Souths players allowed to lie all over our players in tackles, be offside all night, and hold up play all the time with injuries that need fixing, team gets rests..

[Vasco]

I'm nervous.

[Johnny Tobin]

Like we did the other night?
They beat us then and they'll beat us again, if we don't come up with something new and mistake-free.

Trent should've rested more players, JWH, Latrell and Teddy.
He didn't, now look what's happened.

If the refereeing is the same as the other night, we're no hope...Souths players allowed to lie all over our players in tackles, be offside all night, and hold up play all the time with injuries that need fixing, team gets rests..

If you think the other night is any kind of barometer I can’t help you.

[rented tracksuit]

Raiders and Storm are the only ones we should worry about since Manly lost Tommy Turbo.

We will beat Souths comfortably, we're at a different level. Should be a fun night!

Bring it on, I'm pumped!

Easts 18+

I agree. It won’t be close at all. Thursday night was nothing more than a training run. They don’t know what is about to hit them.

[bondi.boy]

If you think the other night is any kind of barometer I can’t help you.

Walker and co ran thru us in the second half like we were store dummies.
Their backs are tall, big and tough...easily took care of our 'lethal left side'.

The refereeing seemed biased.
If it's the same, the result will be the same.
Souths fans will likely outnumber us again.

[Johnny Tobin]

Walker and co ran thru us in the second half like we were store dummies.
Their backs are tall, big and tough...easily took care of our 'lethal left side'.

The refereeing seemed biased.
If it's the same, the result will be the same.
Souths fans will likely outnumber us again.

Like the last time they played us in a semi?

That “lethal left side” on Thursday relied on Hutchison to feed them rather than Keary - with predictable results.

Give us a break..

[QWERTY]

Walker and co ran thru us in the second half like we were store dummies.
Their backs are tall, big and tough...easily took care of our 'lethal left side'.

The refereeing seemed biased.
If it's the same, the result will be the same.
Souths fans will likely outnumber us again.

i take it your nervous?

[ConGa]

only thing i worried is how can we shutdown Cam Murray. He was the difference in our last game vs them

[Spirit of 66]

Walker and co ran thru us in the second half like we were store dummies.
Their backs are tall, big and tough...easily took care of our 'lethal left side'.

The refereeing seemed biased.
If it's the same, the result will be the same.
Souths fans will likely outnumber us again.

Geez you’re good. I had been almost convinced by Zac that you weren’t a troll. Then I wondered if you were “special” and that I therefore needed to show you some compassion.

But it’s clear as day now that you are a bunny.boy and that you have been playing the long troll game.

Well done.

[dice]

Like the last time they played us in a semi?

That “lethal left side” on Thursday relied on Hutchison to feed them rather than Keary - with predictable results.

Give us a break..

+1. Souths first try was also scored by getting on Hutchison's outside which would not have happened with Keary's acceleration.

Despite resting players and not really giving a toss about the result, we still won every stat and it took two butchered tries to keep the pretenders in the game.

[Bansai Pipeline]

I’m with Tobin. Not afraid of playing them again. And I’m a pessimist.

[Salvatori Grubber]

I was pissed off we lost but when we win comfortably on Friday I’ll forgive them.

I’m not nervous at all. Think about all of the unorthodox changes to the side that were made:
- Radley not starting
- Liu playing small minutes
- Crichton on the right for Aubbo
- Smith for Morris
- Hutchi for Rusty’s bane, Keary
- Sitili and Collins
- TKO MIA

I reckon this was Robbo’s plan all along. He wanted to win it (he’d be furious they didn’t go on with the job) but the ultimate goal was to blood Butcher and Collins and that so that if a star goes down in a semi these guys will be called on to fill that gap and win us a grand final.

The Souths game was an optimal appetiser for this sort of blooding. No need to win, but a war of attrition that also has the potential to end in disaster (look at Jared).

We now get to play them at our ground with a proper line up - it will be a very different Roosters side this week.