Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Storm

[OMR]

JwH needs to be JWH.
if he wasn't we wouldn't be playing semi final football

JWH needs to play the way he does otherwise his name would Aiden Tolman or Aaron Woods.

No one in the last 15-20 years has played like him except for Boyd, and before that it was Morley, whose nrl career was cut short by being targeted by the refs

[ARD]

How good’s it seeing Raiders and Souths get up and it means big fat nothing to us now! Yes boys, still loving last night!

[Funky Chicken]

My favourite part of the game was Lodge and JWH repeatedly chewing up Nelson and shitting him out the other end like the turd he is.

The very definition of genuine hard men owning a fake hard man.

How about the faked eye gouge moment when Jared treated him like a concubine? He should play for the Brazilian soccer team.

I genuinely thought there were times last night that NAS actually looked scared.......he is so used to being the bully because of his size, but Rads, JWH and Lodge took everything he had and gave it back with interest. If we meet them again in the finals NAS might need to wear Depends!!

[The Shoe]

Interesting statiscs (based on NRL.com game summary),

Roosters had 53% possession across the game, skewed by the fact that Melbourne had most of the ball for the last 15 minutes.

Easts received 71% of 6 agains (5 of 7), I find it incongruous that we received only 39% of penalties (7 of 18). The leg ups received by Melbourne were massive.

[ism22]

Interesting statiscs (based on NRL.com game summary),

Roosters had 53% possession across the game, skewed by the fact that Melbourne had most of the ball for the last 15 minutes.

Easts received 71% of 6 agains (5 of 7), I find it incongruous that we received only 39% of penalties (7 of 18). The leg ups received by Melbourne were massive.

Dare say most of our 6 agains were on the first tackle, inside their 20 (i.e. shoulda been penalties / sin-bins instead).

[The Lip]

2 reasons I can think of. First we have some decent jumpers that make the contest at least 50/50 if Walker gets it in the right spot. The second is that we were gassed and the best way to keep our defensive structure is not to have to upset it too much. Running 35-40m can open up the defence especially if we don't go up in 1 line.

Regardless, it does nothing but increase my blood pressure!

Seems to be a widely held belief amongst the teams now that it's easier to hold your defensive structure for 6 tackles on your line than from 30 meters out(- drop out that goes 50 on the fly is still tackled on the 30) - if not easier just the same and with the short drop out you have a 50/50 of getting the ball back - some would say greater because if we know it's short and they don't it's an advantage.

I get it - put it into probabilities- say it's 50/50 to hold them out from 10 out and 30 out but with the longer kick you are zero chance of getting the ball back its then 50% chance they score. Now say it's the same 50/50 from 10 out they score but now we are 50/50 of getting the ball back then it's only 25% chance they score. I like that logic.

[Headless Chook]

Interesting statiscs (based on NRL.com game summary),

Roosters had 53% possession across the game, skewed by the fact that Melbourne had most of the ball for the last 15 minutes.

Easts received 71% of 6 agains (5 of 7), I find it incongruous that we received only 39% of penalties (7 of 18). The leg ups received by Melbourne were massive.

Yet the general consensus on social media was that the ref looked after us.....go figure!

[The Lip]

I saw it. He moved his shoulders to imitate him twitching on the ground.

Whilst doing so he was having a laugh with Victor - no story there at all.

[redwhiteblue]

Tremendous effort:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChyHO..._web_copy_link

[redwhiteblue]

And another

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChyVa..._web_copy_link

[milanja]

They mentioned on fox that the roosters/storm match was the biggest watched Friday night match ever? Unless I misheard that, it’s pretty impressive for the two most hated clubs in the league.

[redwhiteblue]

Melbourne are looking very haggard tonight..and the crowd do not like Nelson..48 seconds into the game and he was being booed...

[Bmw06i]

Watching the Storm play tonight, seemed like they wanted to loose the match.

Just saying.

[milanja]

Watching the Storm play tonight, seemed like they wanted to loose the match.

Just saying.

Even Munster missing that goal that would of put them within 6 seemed odd.

[A Country Member]

Even Munster missing that goal that would of put them within 6 seemed odd.

So they can play Canberra at home who have a decent record down there? Nah, doubt it.