I'm loving the.......

[Ray Stehr]

Well it's the thing isn't it...
- There were only a small, scattered handful of Storm members present. Why? Because nobody supports them.
- Despite having huuuge AFL stocks, the Storm hasn't developed any local feeders to poach talented leapers/kickers from AFL. Rather, they got given a bunch of Brisbane feeders from the QLD comp.
- People haaaate us. However, they hate them Storm 10x as much because they entered the comp and straight away started fukking cheating the comp!!! There are no other situations where neutral fans will want us to win.

IMO it really is time to accept that the Storm was a failed experiment and move them to Brisbane as a 2nd team (or to Perth/Adelaide - but there's no market there).

Mate I'll tell you, we are easily the most hated club in the comp, which is a huge compliment.

[Ray Stehr]

Btw I get nervous whenever we play, does that make me a bad supporter?

[Bruce Pickett]

Btw I get nervous whenever we play, does that make me a bad supporter?

Nope. Especially before a GF.

[ccfc bondi]

They will always hate, whatever you tell them. The article explaining what great development work the Roosters do only attracted one comment (of course, they wouldn't print my reply!) about stealing other people's juniors. At least they have started to accept the Roosters develop, I suppose. (The fact that they've got a tiny junior base, no-one is anywhere near developed at 16, and many come from the country and NZ areas and their club's probably benefiting from someone the Roosters have developed entirely escapes them. Oh, and I assume no-one comes against their will, so I don't know where they get the term 'steal' from. Teams like Penrith have massive juniors, but the transition of most of them into decent first graders seems beyond them!.

[ccfc bondi]

BTW,

Some douche on the radio this morning was having a go at Roosters fans for not showing up last night and what a poor look it was that the ground was only a third full compared to the wonderful Raiders fans who sold out in Canberra ....except last night's crowd was 32,814 and the Canberra crowd was 26,567. (Hmm...according to his maths, the SCG has a capacity of about 98,500!)

[gragra]

I was there lastt and there were 32,000 rooster fans and maybe about 800 Melbourne supporters.....goes to show the club with no fans can pack out the scg ! Lst year in the final Allianz stadium game there 45,000 and the rooster noise out did the rabbit supporters. We are have a reat fan base. Last nights noise was awesome.....even the parra supporter next to me wanted us to beat the storm !!

[BUDDY]

The salt on social media adds to the joys of Grand Final week.
It brings a huge smile to my face.
Embrace it Ray.

[Kentucky_Fried_Rooster]

We are cheating the salary cap just like every other club, the salary cap is the biggest joke and everyone knows it.
Just some clubs are smarter at not getting caught than others.
It's time to get rid of it, let clubs buy who they want, that will get rid of this club X is cheating. You ask any fan and they say basically every club is cheating except mine. What a load of crap, I know we are cheating and I also know so are the other 15 teams.
We and the Storm are the best-run clubs at the moment, yes back in the 80's and 90's we were a basket case with players well past there prime using as us a retirement fund, now they come to be part of the success.
Can't wait to grand final day 2020 and picking up our third premiership in a row.

[eddie]

Btw I get nervous whenever we play, does that make me a bad supporter?

So do I..........................even when I've tipped us by 70.

[lordteddy]

Btw I get nervous whenever we play, does that make me a bad supporter?

When weve given up big leads before - to sharks in 2016 for example - ita hard not too. This team is different though, a new beast

[Ray Stehr]

The salt on social media adds to the joys of Grand Final week.
It brings a huge smile to my face.
Embrace it Ray.

I did say that the hate was a huge compliment.

["gaz"]

I was feeling the nerves during and before last nights Roosters v Storm match
My head said the winner of this match will win the Grand Final
I feel very confident for a comfortable Rooster Grand Final victory now

[Johnny Tobin]

Go Easts

[Thirteen]

Ray if I ever get to meet you in person I am going to give you a massive bear hug.

[Rooster_6]

Having lost the previous 2 games to souffs anyone who claimed they weren't nervous were fibbing, plain and simple. As far as the GF goes, once again, if you're not nervous then I suggest you're not a passionate Rooster.

Hadn't been more confident going into a finals game than that Souths one since the early 2000's.

When you get it wrong, you don't just claim everyone else was fibbing you eat some humble pie and front up. C'mon Ray, give it up.