Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Raiders

[QWERTY]

Friend's worst ever game.

It was hard viewing.

Ikuvalu was quite poor today as well

[Bronte Chook]

No positives in that bullshit!

[FREEMAN89]

yep our forwards played like marshmallows against a committed raiders, only one team wanted it tonight.

100% , wasn't much of a fan of Tauks at 13.. looked lost in the middle and wasn't much of a ball player like Rads or Butch.

And like most above, I think the game has gone past Aubo too much for him to fill that hole. Especially post resumption.

So unless We can come up with a miracle, that sweeping link play we dominated with, is causing us far too many errors. Way too telegraphed, and way too much pressure on our outside backs.

We look frustrated to the point we're trying to force it, which is turning it over even more so.

[Roosta4life]

Warriors, Titans and Dragons in the next 3 weeks. 3 winnable games to get us back on track.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Write this one off and restart....soft middle, Jake and Lindsay off the pace. Un Easts like.

Two shocking 2nd half calls....Wighton tackle after kick penalty led to their try and dud fwd pass call for our try.....aaaaargh!!!

Footy media will be partying tonight.

[milanja]

Terribly costly loss for us , Friend, Crichton and Collins had really bad nights for us and papalli dominated the 2nd half with a huge performance backed up by tapani.
We had more than enough chances tonight and we weren't good enough.
A worrying sign is that besides the Parra win we haven't beaten any of the other teams up the top of the ladder.
We will get back on track with an easy run for the next few weeks but a lot of the other teams up the top have easy draws and will definitely make the top 4. This is a loss we didn't need and has put us in a precarious position for a crucial top 4 spot.

agree with that, we won’t have another test til storm in a months time.

[King Salvo]

6 and 4 now at the half way mark - that is below par- basically 3 games or 4 if you count the Penrith game the Chooks should have won- should be 9-1 so 3 games under where they should be at the half way mark- need a very strong second half of the season for sure for any chance of winning another comp.- Its a tough second half of the season too

I think they must have been believing the press that they just had to turn up to win - It doesn't matter who is in or out as your still playing against 17 players and the Chooks had no excuses for a rather poor performance- not good enough and tonight showed weaknesses in the Chooks that more teams will expose unless these weaknesses are eliminated.- Poor and lazy defence and poor ball control and one might say poor attitude too for the 80 minutes.

[Johnny Tobin]

It’s so long until we play again! Am I going to have this vomit taste in my mouth for nine days?

[ROC181]

Well that was disappointing just like the Manly game. Too many errors and we seem succumb when a team throws everything and the kitchen sink like the Storm. Thankfully not many teams can play like the Storm or raiders. We had the players just left the composure at home. If I had to say which player was our best, I would give it to Ikavalu cause he did all that was asked from him.

[roosterchook]

Still proud of them. Despite a lot of injuries and some bad ref calls and heaps of stupid mistakes still a 4 point game.

[gragra]

Thought flannos passing and goal kicking a highlight.....papalis try off a questionable pass allowed and ickkys try disallowed...that's a 12 point turnaround. Having said that w all the mistakes really didnt deserve the choclates

[Thirteen]

Flat as tonight. Maybe a bit complacent. Not a standout forward really. Credit to Canberra nobody gave them a chance tonight.

[Tommy Smith]

I think you’re using the term constantly wrong. We are the back to back champs...

You are constantly nitpicking small details.

How was that?

[bondi.boy]

Write this one off and restart....soft middle, Jake and Lindsay off the pace. Un Easts like.

Two shocking 2nd half calls....Wighton tackle after kick penalty led to their try and dud fwd pass call for our try.....aaaaargh!!!

Footy media will be partying tonight.

They seem to cheer against us every match...no matter the channel.

[milanja]

Write this one off and restart....soft middle, Jake and Lindsay off the pace. Un Easts like.

Two shocking 2nd half calls....Wighton tackle after kick penalty led to their try and dud fwd pass call for our try.....aaaaargh!!!

Footy media will be partying tonight.

cant agree mr fur coat, that ball from jmoz looked well forward.