Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Titans

[Spirit of 66]

Up by 14 with 38% of the ball.

[Rooster_6]

To be fair to Ben Cummins the two worst calls have come from the bunker.

How the **** that was a “crusher” I’ll never know, A crusher with the uppper thigh? Seriously? And then Josh Morris kicking the ball out of the ruck.... that just shows a complete lack of understanding of the game and rules. You can’t place the ball on the ground until the you have risen to your feet for that exact reason it allows all involved in the tackle to clear the ruck otherwise the player playing the ball could just place the ball on the ground whenever they like and 99 times out of a 100 there were would be an accidental kick of the ball as the defenders tried to clear the ruck.

[roosterchook]

Knowing cheat Cummins he’ll try and put a couple of our players in the sin bin. There’s a lot of money riding on upsets. Why aren’t we getting a fair share of possession every game? Everyone knows roosters with possession = premiership trophy. I hate this clear bias against us by officials.

[bondi.boy]

We’re giving away some stupid penalties, Gus given away 3 now late in the count. We don’t need to hold them down ffs, there’s no momentum in their play anyway.

Gus needs to be TOLD! by Trent.
Our team makes way too many mistakes...every games.
Dumb mistakes.
Play like this against Panthers, Storm...no chance of winning.

[Thirteen]

Next to their halves Lam plays like the love child of Thurston and Johns. Their halves are absolutely pathetic.

[Rooster_6]

An early try in this second half and I reckon Gold Coast will pack up shop, they’re mentally fragile and done it many times this season.

[Johnny Brass]

Good half of footy with JWH leading the way in a stellar knock.
A Couple of classy touches from Walker and ikuvalu has been good from the wing.
Cummins is hammering us with 6 agains late in the tackle count and sewing the seeds to bin one of our players, if we skip away he will give us some on the 1st or 2nd tackle to level the count to some form of respectability.
Thirteen do us all a favour and level him out in the carpark after the game.

[RoosterFanNZ]

Still can’t get over that Liu crusher tackle and no sin bins for high tackles. Refs showing again that they are the reason for the issues not the players

[Recky62]

Can’t believe how the commentary team are whining about Angs poking his tongue out …suppose they’d prefer he head butted young Campbell would they

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

Cummins has confirmed that the penalty (penalty/bin/sendoff) for a high shot is impacted by whether the player stays down or not. How dumb are the NRL to have that as a factor. They've completely lost the plot.

[bondi.boy]

One for Suaalii:
"Don't fall for their dummies! Tackle the man with the ball!"

[Rooster_6]

11 carries for 111m in the first half for JWH.

And all carries where he found his front and got a quick play the ball. Outside backs are doing a really good job supporting the forwards early in the set, this was a real worry without Teddy but Manu has stepped up to the plate here, hasn’t just sat back and tried to do the fancy stuff.

The leg speed of Butcher and Baker in this second half around the middle could really open up the Titans. Keighran has been brilliant, his kicking game has really controlled filed position for us I hope Robbo resists the temptation to rest him in the 2nd half.

[King Salvo]

Titans are well in this game - dominating possession (61 to 39% ) and field position (69% to 31%) - 19/23 to 13/17 Complete sets - 31 to 2 tackles in opposition 20 - Chooks 7 errors/ 5 penalties and 3 set restarts conceded - Titans - 5 errors/ 1 penalty and 1 set restart conceded - Missed tackles - Chooks 25 to Titans 15 - Crichton 5 - Walker and Keighran 4 - JWH and Baker 3 the main offebders.

Big Second half coming up

[bondi.boy]

JWH on report.
Crazy tackling.

Liu on report...for NOTHING!

[roosterchook]

Liu on report for what, a player laying down trying to milk a penalty? Manu should have laid down and got the Titans player sin binned but he’s too much of a sportsman.