Daniel Mortimer

[Steakface]

Pretty well said above re some of our past players and culture.

The only real transit loungers were the Dogs that came over - Myles, Mason, OMeley (excluding Anasta here, i still maintain his heart was always in the right place). Problem is, those three blokes fkd the Roosters culture. 2010 was a great bright spot - which coincided w Mason and O Meley getting shafted) but either side of it we were awful.

2009 I believe was the worst Roosters season i'd ever seen.

We finished dead last

We had the trio of dickhead dogs - Mason, OMeley, Myles.

Out and out wankers and knob gobblers like Kennedy, Cherrington, Earl, Sa

Mini barely made it onto the field due to injury

Anasta was still busy trying to do an impersonation of a no.6 before finally getting moved to second row the following season

Friend & Pearce were too busy selling disco biscuits and drinking themselves silly to care.

Blokes who were simply not up to first grade - Kouparitsis, Tansey, Jones, Brown etc

A 'cult hero' who was quite simply, if we are honest with ourselves, shite - Shackleton.

A couple of quiet christians who were simply TOO quiet and never spoke up about the shite - Perret, Paea

A trio of butterfingered Fijians who wouldnt be able to catch a ball if it was stapled to their hand - Waqa brothers, Tuigamala

And the disgraceful Fitzy farewell game in the final round, where to this day i am convinced certain bad elements within the playing group orchestrated a match fix. (16-0 Roosters at half time i believe, and 32-16 Cowboys win at full time.

[ism22]

Pretty well said above re some of our past players and culture.

The only real transit loungers were the Dogs that came over - Myles, Mason, OMeley (excluding Anasta here, i still maintain his heart was always in the right place). Problem is, those three blokes fkd the Roosters culture. 2010 was a great bright spot - which coincided w Mason and O Meley getting shafted) but either side of it we were awful.

2009 I believe was the worst Roosters season i'd ever seen.

We finished dead last

We had the trio of dickhead dogs - Mason, OMeley, Myles.

Out and out wankers and knob gobblers like Kennedy, Cherrington, Earl, Sa

Mini barely made it onto the field due to injury

Anasta was still busy trying to do an impersonation of a no.6 before finally getting moved to second row the following season

Friend & Pearce were too busy selling disco biscuits and drinking themselves silly to care.

Blokes who were simply not up to first grade - Kouparitsis, Tansey, Jones, Brown etc

A 'cult hero' who was quite simply, if we are honest with ourselves, shite - Shackleton.

A couple of quiet christians who were simply TOO quiet and never spoke up about the shite - Perret, Paea

A trio of butterfingered Fijians who wouldnt be able to catch a ball if it was stapled to their hand - Waqa brothers, Tuigamala

And the disgraceful Fitzy farewell game in the final round, where to this day i am convinced certain bad elements within the playing group orchestrated a match fix. (16-0 Roosters at half time i believe, and 32-16 Cowboys win at full time.

Nice write-up. Questions...
- What happened with the Love Shaq? He did a video about how he was a proud Rooster for life one day and then the next he was off to Manly or some garbage.
- What happened with that brothel and match fixing investigation? People were pretty angry on here I remember...

[rented tracksuit]

Nice write-up. Questions...
- What happened with the Love Shaq? He did a video about how he was a proud Rooster for life one day and then the next he was off to Manly or some garbage.
- What happened with that brothel and match fixing investigation? People were pretty angry on here I remember...

If somethung involved a brothel, ask Thirteen.

[Bansai Pipeline]

What a dream boat.

[Rooster90]

Nice write-up. Questions...
- What happened with the Love Shaq? He did a video about how he was a proud Rooster for life one day and then the next he was off to Manly or some garbage.
- What happened with that brothel and match fixing investigation? People were pretty angry on here I remember...

Firstly I wouldn't put O' Meley in with the other 2 Dogs, he always tried his best we just happened to buy him after his body was already busted.

Shackleton went to the Eels after us and became more famous for his footy show Fui Fui Moi Moi impersonation than footy skill, think he then bounced around to a few clubs and was still playing Ron Massey Cup until recently.

Nothing ever came about with the match fixing sandal as David Gallop said the NRL did not have sufficient information to launch an investigation.
However all the evidence points to the fact there was something suss, betting was suspended numerous times before the game with ridiculous amounts put on Cowboys 13+

It was only the next season Ryan Tandy got done for match fixing against the cowboys, not to mention Eddie Hayson (the brothel owner) later got caught depositing $$$ into other peoples TAB accounts (from memory Peter O' Sullivan was one)

[Cyril Snodgrass III]

For our 2013 and 2019 grand final wins ,easts went with two hookers

2013..friend and mortimer

2019...friend and verrills

hooker is one of the most important spots in a team...

Jake friend is a massive loss

[Dr. Voodoo Man]

For our 2013 and 2019 grand final wins ,easts went with two hookers

2013..friend and mortimer

2019...friend and verrills

hooker is one of the most important spots in a team...

Jake friend is a massive loss

Shouldn't you be preparing your Adrian Lam voodoo doll to **** with this week? Dragon turd.

[QWERTY]

I feel like our team substantially changed in 2013 though? Off head we bought...
- Maloney
- Jennings
- SBW
- LOD
- Moa

At the same time we let a lot of players go and flushed out the shyte from 2009-2012, where (2010 aside - which came at a price) we'd had a few frigging ordinary seasons. Again off head but we'd just punted...
- Carney
- Myles
- Anasta
- Conn (maybe unfair as he was a gun who got injuried but he had bikie links and stuff)
- Perrett and Anthony Mitchell (massively farked us over and caused chaos as they were leaving)
- BJ Leilua (was having domestics with his ex and getting into trouble... also he'd lived off KFC all off-season)
- Cherro (injuries and wasn't there some DV too?)
- Watts never played but he's an example of a d!ckhead we never shoulda signed during the said period
- Kennedy (plus Keegan Smith... there were a few 'paleo diet' [aka steroids] dudes floating around... Kennedy also had the snake smuggling and shyte]
- A few guys who did nothing wrong but were just ordinary (Justin Carney, Bosden, Arona...etc)

I know that's not all Robbo but I think he woulda been talking to SOS/Nick. He knew more about our recruitment plans than Smith/Anasta IMO (they didn't seem to know we were signing SBW, for example).

I dunno! IMO a lot of those players are the very definition of 'transit lounge' clowns who we didn't want. It's taken time but during his latest Roosters Radio appearance, Politis said we don't have any dodgy farks these days. I think it's fair to say there's been a massive cultural shift away from the transit lounge of the mid/late 2000's.

If I remember correctly Daniel Conn had to retire because of a back injury, pretty sure we would have kept him he was great for us

[QWERTY]

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None of those players were what you'd consider "transit lounge signings" you're confusing culture, personality, professionalism etc with transit lounge aka throwing big money at "named" players who were only here for the money and didn't give a shit about the club or putting in performances once they secured the bag, which aside from Mason and O'Meley hadn't been done in 20 years

Anasta, Myles, Carney - all signed with legitimate reason to make the team better and in the case of Myles and Carney they did and I don't think anyone could ever say Myles didn't care about the club. Carney was an idiot but he was stitched up in 2011 too. You can argue Anasta as a traditional transit lounge signing but as much as I hate him I wouldn't go that far

Daniel Conn - Retired early in 2011 due to a neck injury, not sure why he's mentioned considering he was so good in 2010 and came cheap.

Perrett, Cherrington, Kennedy - These three came up through the junior ranks so they're not a transit lounge signing for a start, how the hell did Sam Perrett fark us over, because his younger brother wanted to play with him? Where is he now? Sam's one of the nicest guys ever that was nothing but a model professional. Martin Kennedy played in the 2013 grand final Robbo had huge wraps on him despite all the "handbrake sheila" taunts from the expert fans and even brought MK back to the club

Anthony Watts - massive farkwit but again signed and sacked before Robinson was back at the club, there is no way Robinson was still in dialogue with the club over who to sign and who to sack in early 2011 when it was the players who had to convince Politis in 2012 to sign him.

J Carney, T Arona, J Bosden - er, what? Guys on cheap deals signed when we were shit that were nothing more than stop gap solutions or depth, not a transit lounge at all[/


He has dramatically changed our culture but. I notice no one shat in any stairwells this year

I don’t think Kennedy played in the 2013 GF

[ism22]

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I don’t think Kennedy played in the 2013 GF

Correct... didn't play (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_NRL_Grand_Final)

He played in the 2010 grand final (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NRL_Grand_Final). Things changed. I mean, he's in prison now... right?

[Rooster36]

What a moment as horrendous as it was you have to admit it was hilarious and summed things up… also jmoz https://youtu.be/1dqeUSPDvNg