Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Sharks

[Rooster_6]

First side to beat Cronulla at Shark Park this year and most points put on against a very good defensive Sharks side this year. It's never an easy game at Shark park, don't underestimate this win. Still searching for that 80min performance but shown we can play at a high level over the last 3 weeks.

JWH, Collins and SST all great.

Best game from Crichton this year by a long way. Ran good unders lines, didn't overdo it. Shame about that Mcinness try but some good signs.

3. Teddy
2. Teddy
1. Teddy
0.5 Collins
0.25 Suaali

[roosterchook]

Losing suaali for the second half and the reshuffle hurt us

As soon as Suuali was injured the next tackle they score as he wasn’t right and fell off the tackle. From then on we were in deep trouble. He’s a great defender and our line was not strong after he left. He makes a huge difference to the team.

[QWERTY]

I felt keary was the more dominant half tonight, good signs with the 7 on his back.

The experiment may be over.

Keary’s been improving with every game. You could probably say that about most of the players in our team though

[roosterchook]

Great 1st half but we fell apart when Suuali went off. Manu ended up saving the day.

[BraveTheWorld]

Man, a lot of great stuff in this game, and like I said I was pretty confident going in. I think Suaalii getting injured probably cost us two tries. Pretty sure he'd make the tackle on Talakai as he had done all night, if he wasn't a bit dusty.

Just on Suaalii, that was a super performance by him. The kid is 18 and dominating contact against men who are feared throughout the competition like Talakai and Kikau. Couldn't believe some people were unhappy with his defense. His technique is great and he's super aggressive. Hope he's with us for a long time.

Keary and Teddy were tremendous, and to be honest I think we'll beat just about anyone in the comp for the first 20-30 minutes of the game, when we start JWH, SST and Collins. They make a very tough trio to handle. The issues seem to arise once they significantly tire or come off.

Shoutout to Momo on some great work, too. Would have liked to have seen May get some more time, but I suppose it was in part due to the Suaalii injury.

Where does everyone rank us in the competition now? Suppose we could be as high as 3rd and as low as 6th, in most people's estimation?

[zac]

poultry in motion

[Bondicigar]

Fck fck cronulla

[King Salvo]

Still a bit to work on - not an 80 minute performance as yet. 50 or so minutes

Second half - Set completions dropped from 81% to 74% / Missed tackles increased from 13 to 36 (23 in second half) and 6 line breaks conceded / Poor Discipline - 4 penalties and 4 set restarts conceded

Stats - 1st half - Roosters 20 vs Sharks 0

• Possession - Roosters 52 % vs Sharks 48%.
• Set Completions - Roosters 81% ( 18/22) vs Sharks 72% (13/18).
• Offloads - Roosters 8 vs Sharks 6
• Play the ball average speed - Roosters 3.77 seconds vs Sharks 3.46 seconds.
• Line Breaks - Roosters 6 vs Sharks 1.
• Kicking - Roosters 283 metres ( 9 ) vs Sharks metres 206 (8).
• Tackles - Roosters 151 (13 missed ) vs Sharks 162 (19 missed ).
• Errors -Roosters 7 vs Sharks 5.
• Penalties conceded - Roosters 2 vs Sharks 3.
• Set Restarts conceded - Roosters 2 vs Sharks (0).

Stats - 2nd half - Roosters 16 vs Sharks 16

• Possession - Roosters 40 % vs Sharks 60%.
• Set Completions - Roosters 74% ( 14/19) vs Sharks 78% (17/22).
• Offloads - Roosters 9 vs Sharks 4
• Play the ball average speed - Roosters 4.13 seconds vs Sharks 3.76 seconds.
• Line Breaks - Roosters 3 vs Sharks 6.
• Kicking - Roosters 220 metres ( 6 ) vs Sharks metres 199 (5).
• Tackles - Roosters 181 (23 missed ) vs Sharks 146 (11 missed ).
• Errors - Roosters 5 vs Sharks 4.
• Penalties conceded - Roosters 4 vs Sharks 3.
• Set Restarts conceded - Roosters 4 vs Sharks 1.

Full Match- Roosters 36 vs Sharks 16

• Possession - Roosters 46 % vs Sharks 54 %..
• Set Completions - Roosters 78% ( 32/41 ) vs Sharks 75% (30/40).
• Offloads - Roosters 17 vs Sharks 10
• Play the ball average speed - Roosters 3.95 seconds vs Sharks 3.61 seconds.
• Line Breaks - Roosters 9 vs Sharks 7.
• Kicking - Roosters 503 metres ( 15 ) vs Sharks metres 405 (13).
• Tackles - Roosters 332 (36 missed ) vs Sharks 308 (30 missed ).
• Errors - Roosters 7 vs Sharks 5.
• Penalties conceded - Roosters 6 vs Sharks 8.
• Set Restarts conceded - Roosters 6 vs Sharks 1.

Interchanges - Roosters 7 vs Sharks 8


https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premier...ks-v-roosters/

[lordteddy]

Just got back from the game. Was a beautiful night, glad the rain stayed away as it made for a nice quick track.

Great showing from the chooks, really dominate for most of the game. We had good line speed and the contact was really good through the first 60 minutes. We fell away a bit with a few penalties but held firm. I felt we were lucky with a couple of calls, particularly the 6 to go that was conceded off the linebreak. Not sure how that wasn't a bin but it's nice to get the rub of the green every now and then.

[dice]

That last Sharks try was a disgraceful decision. Annesley has the refs confused and he needs to go.

[HunchoRooster]

Great win tonight. First half definitely our best footy of the season. We were resilient in defence, they had a lot of ball down our end and they came up with nothing. Brilliant in attack with limited ball and the way we iced some of those short side plays with Teddy and Co. gave me vibes of yesteryear. We are clicking into gear and its exciting!

2nd half was typical NRL referring getting teams back into a contest to bring the game closer. I'll say it til i'm blue in the face. The late tries were good because the game didn't deserve to be an 8pt margin given how much better we were than them.

[rozza]

A lot of positives to take out still plenty to work on but a step in the right direction.
Easts To Win!

[Tommy Smith]

6 agains the last 3 week's combined:

For: 3
Against: 18

LMAO it's hard to remain passionate over this biased trash.

[Eggspert]

6 agains the last 3 week's combined:

For: 3
Against: 18

LMAO it's hard to remain passionate over this biased trash.

At one stage it was raining 6 agains & penalties for the Sharks. Was waiting for the customary sin bin to also follow. That's probably a decent reason why we were so gassed that last 20min.

[Inflictor]

Heaps of positives tonight against good opposition.

Collins and Keary getting better every week.
Attacking combos gelling.
Our line defence best all year.
Suaalii gives you wow factors each week.
Walker's defence improving.
I like what I'm seeing.
One week at a time.