CEO Joe Kelly reveals the team currently has 62% of their salary cap out injured

[fletch]

ROOSTERS MISSING 62 PER CENT OF SALARY CAP

The Sydney Roosters will play the Penrith Panthers next weekend with only 38 per cent of their salary cap available for selection.

Front-rower Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has been suspended for a week to join Luke Keary, Boyd Cordner, Brett Morris, Lindsay Collins, Jake Friend, Billy Smith, Matt Ikuvalu, Josh Morris and Joseph Suaalii on the sidelines.

Roosters’ chief executive Joe Kelly has revealed the above names take up 62 per cent of the club’s $9.4 million salary cap.

It has left them relying on ‘cheapies’ Adam Keighran, Drew Hutchison and Egan Butcher, a super young player who made six tackle busts in his 25 minutes of game time against the Eels.

That the Roosters could still belt the Parramatta Eels 28-0 on Thursday night to remain a premiership contender is a miracle.

Not that the injuries are just a recent problem.

NRL physio Brien Seeney has revealed the Roosters have suffered 15 major injuries (five weeks or longer) this season.

Yet we keep talking about the problems at the Penrith Panthers where Ivan Cleary has lost on four players for five weeks or longer.

The injury analysis at the 16 clubs also shows lowly placed clubs like the Gold Coast Titans and the Wests Tigers can’t use injuries as an excuse for their poor seasons.

[stringaz]

Salary sombrero blah blah blah. It won't turn the most rusted on haters, but it shows how good our systems are, not paper bags that make us successful.

[TeddyGoat]

Insane stat. What a fkn club.

[Teddy]

We’re unbreakable yes we’re not in the top 3 or 4 teams but we’re never out of the contest, we have been written off by everybody yet I’m glad to at Nine commentator kept praising our resilience and determination to keep fighting oh what the season could have been off Kez BMoz Cords and Friend we’re all fit and firing our competition would be shitting bricks if we only had 3 or 4 injured.

[mightyrooster]

It just makes you even more proud to be a Roosters fan. Robbo has created such an awesome culture at the club.

[redwhiteblue]

Other teams fold like cheap suits when they have one player out. It says a lot about Easts as a whole club that we can still be hanging in there, especially over the last 3 weeks with all the extra travel, packing up and moving interstate and flying to different venues and winning at each one of them.

[Easts75]

I think the adversity we have faced this year delivers us another Premiership within the next 2

[The Skeez]

Next man up

[Rooster_6]

I know it will end in tears, it always does when we achieve anything other than a premiership but this has got to be one of those really proud seasons for the club that will live on for years to come and live in folklore.

Robbo's next man up is something that is now embedded in the clubs DNA. Anything less in the future just won't be accepted by fans regardless of the coach or situation.

Kind of like the baby Broncos or the Dogs of war.

I see myself at my local in 20yrs shouting at the TV about how our future squad doesn't understand the meaning of next man up... not like the good old days.

[Blue Suede Schubert]

It makes you realise just how good the win against the Eels was. Especially keeping them to blot. I never felt an iota of concern prior to and during the match at all.

[Rooster_6]

Was thinking the other day how little we see and hear of Joe Kelly.

I remember when Noyce the poor bastard was on camera every second day.

[zac]

I know it will end in tears, it always does when we achieve anything other than a premiership but this has got to be one of those really proud seasons for the club that will live on for years to come and live in folklore.

Robbo's next man up is something that is now embedded in the clubs DNA. Anything less in the future just won't be accepted by fans regardless of the coach or situation.

Kind of like the baby Broncos or the Dogs of war.

I see myself at my local in 20yrs shouting at the TV about how our future squad doesn't understand the meaning of next man up... not like the good old days.

i think the storm's performance in the 2010 season when they had nothing to play for helped build the foundation for a decade's success. so too with us this year - jwh has been beyond inspirational. still a lot of work to be done but we don't want to waste the groundwork we've done this year and, just quietly, we don't want to be patting ourselves on the backs just yet

[ism22]

i think the storm's performance in the 2010 season when they had nothing to play for helped build the foundation for a decade's success. so too with us this year - jwh has been beyond inspirational. still a lot of work to be done but we don't want to waste the groundwork we've done this year and, just quietly, we don't want to be patting ourselves on the backs just yet

A squad that was 2x the salary cap, owned by the NRL and systematically cheated in order to get there (with favourable treatment from the refs) released GI & Folau as their only punishment. GI being released was a cheat in itself because he'd just punched up his wife and was wanted by the police (i.e. if the rules had been stuck to, he woulda counted under their cap without being available). Broncos ghosted him when they found put about the cover-up and Souffs were able to sign him with zero penalty for the finding of guilt for DV.

IMO we're better than that and we've put in a lot more work to build what we've got. Storm just get red carpet treatment coz the NRL don't want them to fold.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Coops summed it up best following the knights game earlier this year when he said "They are the Roosters. That club won't stop fighting until there's no one left standing"

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

A squad that was 2x the salary cap, owned by the NRL and systematically cheated in order to get there (with favourable treatment from the refs) released GI & Folau as their only punishment. GI being released was a cheat in itself because he'd just punched up his wife and was wanted by the police (i.e. if the rules had been stuck to, he woulda counted under their cap without being available). Broncos ghosted him when they found put about the cover-up and Souffs were able to sign him with zero penalty for the finding of guilt for DV.

IMO we're better than that and we've put in a lot more work to build what we've got. Storm just get red carpet treatment coz the NRL don't want them to fold.

I remember telling a souffs fan who was a colleague of mine at the time, just when you think your sh^t stain club can't get any worse they go and sign a woman basher. Even he hated Inglis