Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Rabbits

[Tom Verlaine's Ghost]

I’ll never understand Robbo. He should have rested our big guns for next week. This week means zilch.

It was very silly and we paid the price.

[Eggspert]

We're done and dusted. So dumb to play all their stars.

Yeah but we have a warm fuzzy feeling winning in our new stadium in a dead rubber & had to risk our stars.

Talk of a must win game to get a home final in a brand new stadium which gives no huge advantage is ridiculous.

[roosterchook]

Our season’s over next week. Absolutely stupid fielding our best players. We were playing for nothing tonight.

[SamKerrSimp]

Where’s all this negativity coming from? South’s have nothing to fear and we get Suaalii, Radley and hopefully Tupou back obviously Manu is a big loss if he’s out but we aren’t a one man team and will only be missing 2 players hopefully and even without Manu our finals draw is good enough that we can still make the preliminary final without Manu

[Vasco]

Our season’s over next week. Absolutely stupid fielding our best players. We were playing for nothing tonight.

Every game against Souffs means something.

Did it feel like nothing while you were watching?

[Eggspert]

Where’s all this negativity coming from? South’s have nothing to fear and we get Suaalii, Radley and hopefully Tupou back obviously Manu is a big loss if he’s out but we aren’t a one man team and will only be missing 2 players hopefully and even without Manu our finals draw is good enough that we can still make the preliminary final without Manu

But the thing is I highly doubt Toops will be back next week & now with Manu likely out we now have hit crisis level with our back ups who won't get us to a GF especially if we have to meet Panthers or Storm to get there.

So more caution should of been given to Manu tonight especially if the calf tightness rumours during the week are true.

[Headless Chook]

But the thing is I highly doubt Toops will be back next week & now with Manu likely out we now have hit crisis level with our back ups who won't get us to a GF especially if we have to meet Panthers or Storm to get there.

So more caution should of been given to Manu tonight especially if the calf tightness rumours during the week are true.

Back ups will struggle to get us past next week. We are no hope of winning anything with Drew Hutch in the centres

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Great opening night to christen the new digs, first the girls then the lads with two pretty dominant wins, considering available personnel.

We just seemed to want it a bit more tonight, and tactically Robbo won the tricks. Two tough and physical for them and won the ruck all night.

Keary, Teddy, Angus, Lodge all very good. Special mention to Naiqama who I thought didn't have it in him, he was terrific on the carts out of trouble, played smart.

Great tactics to kick to Lattrell and wear him out. Other teams dodge him and keep him fresh. He really had a shocker on top of a bit of pressure and physicality back at him.

Thumbs up to the digs....could get a drink and food ok despite close to 42,000 attending. Proper beer too. The old SFS basically with a decent spruce up. So close to the action in the bottom tiers. The management handled tonight's event really well. More of the same.

We might have just wrested back our psychological advantage over Souths....bring on next week when we send em packin.

[A Country Member]

Connor Watson was immense

[yeception]

Latrell was absolute garbage tonight. Sweetest part of the win

[yeception]

Absolute malpractice to have let manu play if he was having tightness

[stringaz]

There is zero chance Cam Murray doesn't play next week.

Two Cat ones this year, they said an independent doctor needs to clear him to play before 11 days.

It's souffs so you're probably right.

[TheLoneRooster]

I agree with those in this thread (I only read back as far as page 9) that said the second half felt like it took an eternity. The vermin won the second half and it showed. Lodge looked absolutely exhausted in the first half and seemed less effective in the second. Perhaps he was missing JWH.

Next week will be tougher I think.

[Bansai Pipeline]

We get them next week with Rads and Suallii.

[TheLoneRooster]

Latrell was absolute garbage tonight. Sweetest part of the win

That it was. I don't know how well it came through on TV, but he got booed loudly every time he got the ball. The Roosters nullified 'trell and it was glorious.