Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Panthers

[Kingbilly]

Thats because of Flanagan....

Nail on the head.
Flanagan is causing others to look bad as the cover for him.

[Bruce Pickett]

Cannot underestimae loss of Friend. His defence around the rucks is sorely missed tonight.

Half our spine are pups - Flannagan and Lussic - 20 year olds.

[King Salvo]

Game turned when b morris was bundled into touch - all penrith from then on - Toops looking frustrated saying some things to other players after a couple of those tries- 40 minutes to do something but it is not looking good- JWH will be missing next game and Sitili as well as he wont be back i hear

[gragra]

Joey manu drifts and drifts and comes up with thin sir twice ....leaving a gap on the inside...2 tries....and his attack has become non existent....but the roosters have lost their energy....maybe too many hard games between rounds 10 to 18 has finally taken its toll....

[roosterchook]

82 points scored against us in one and a half games!

[Easts75]

Just so soft in every aspect is what hurts most. Its like they have lost their passion,pride and desire in a 2 week period. It is mind boggling what we have witnessed the last 3 halves of footy.
If they score first this half, how ugly can it get ?
If we score first ......well hopefully that is the turning point

[ism22]

What a disgrace.

So far...

Yep 40 to go. We got 10 easy points at the start so who knows! Not over yet... grab an early try and it's game on.

[Freddy]

We lack hunger and desire, been up for so long, the biggest telling point of this is last week and tonight players not putting their bodies on the line to fall on balls and poor defense.

unfortunately Cordner looks a shadow of himself.
He always gave us those hard carries yet there just not there anymore... and he seems very quiet as Captain. Watching the half time he was looking into space.
Really worry about him at the moment.

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

This is tough.

I am not sure that we can come back from this.

Anyway, let's go. Come on you mighty Roosters!

[RoosterFanNZ]

ive accepted our fate, if they suprise me then yay. been a fantastic few years

[Bruce 38-0]

Maybe if we played the ball sideways like they do we could get some quick ball.

[milanja]

Time to change some shit up, Manu need to search for the ball or take it from flanno

[ROC181]

We can do this if we get our shit together!

[nayfo]

Can't see us coming back in this one.

I do think we can win next week, so ill be hoping for the eels to beat Melbourne as there is no way we can beat the storm in 2 weeks.
thats if we do win next week.
So disappointed.

[elo]

We're very poor tonight. Not sure what Robo can do to turn this around.

Not a whole lot, I guess he gave them 3 days before the Souths game cause he sensed the juice was running out....once you go red it's near impossible to get it back without a substantial break. Parra have been in the red for months and have fumbled and bumbled along due to it. Penrith would have to implode from here and that's hard to see as they are very cautious in their own half and their last tackle kicking is so so good, it's probably the best kicking game I've seen in quite a while.