Season over down to Robinson

[Ray Stehr]

Souffs rd1 will be cold comfort.

[roostermcgregor]

"Originally posted by A Country Member

Yep.
As soon as he sided with Latrell midweek, he lost his edge over the opposition and therefore the team did as well. Souths then picked up the extra power and it was the difference. In a game of ‘1 percenters’ Trent gave away our advantage from last game and LM gained it.

The coach whisperer would be filthy


You make a really important point , Country Member.
One percenters are imperative to get in the NRL, they are the difference between winning and losing.
What our coach did , by sympathising with Latrell, was to send the wrong message to our own team.
He said Latrell was the victim, and was treated badly in Round 25 by our fans, and (the targeting) by our team, in round 25..
What sort of message do you think that sends to our players (and fans) for that finals game?
Be sympathetic to Latrell and Souffs when you go onto the field?
And what do Souffs do?
They get the sympathy vote from us, then proceed to bash us out of the game.
Latrell on Manu, Arrow on a prone Tedesco in origin, Burgarse on Teddy on Sunday.
Same pattern, and they are laughing because they fooled our coach, and gave themselves a psychological advantage.
There is not one other coach in the League that sympathises with the opposition, but our coach does, and has his high-horse position of his team not laying down.
I really don't give a sh*t about whether a free- flowing game suits the Roosters style- we need to milk penalties when we need it, or it suits us.
I also couldn't care less about politically correct (gay) or other social causes that our coach pushes - leave that up to social workers and social reformers in society.
I would love to see Robinson get down and dirty in the street fight, in the gutter, throwing punches.
Maybe that would give the right impression to his team, and to his fans, that he is willing to do everything in his power to win a premiership.
Its no use preaching to his team that they need to get better each week, that they need to be ruthless, if the coach does not want to follow suit.
If you are continually going into the fight with one hand tied behind your back, because of moral grounds, maybe its time to quit the fight.
Unless of course, you want to untie the hand, get into the fight by all means possible, and get serious.

[weplayforprems]

How do you know that? If we had won those games would we have been as desperate in the games v Cowboys, Storm and Souths? We might have dropped one or two of those and still finished in 5th or 6th. It's not as easy as saying if we won 2 more games we would have finished higher because those wins would have had an impact on our mentality as we approached those crucial games in the back end of the season. I tyell you want whould be nice....a season where we get looked after like Canberra and play the bottom 4 twicce and the top 4 only once!

Canberra, Cows and Cronulla all had beautiful draws.

It’s the price we pay for being a glamour club. TV companies and fans want to see big matches.

I can tell you for free right now we will be playing Souths, Melbourne, Penrith and Parra all twice next year before they even blink at the draw

[Pomorovski]

No Manu, Toops injuried, Teddy rubbed out (illegally by a pom that should've been sent off), an inexperienced JS playing fullback for the first time all combined to remove any polish from our attack. We had the possession and opps to score in that second half but couldn't ice the finishing touches with a rearranged backline of Momo, Hutch, Watson and Naiqama.

Pommist.

[Vasco]

Yep 100% Robbo gets stuff wrong. Yesterday he's not on the field when we got 13 on 11 and totally stuff that advantage and then let them score !!!. I guess it shows just how important Teddy is.
We probs not gonna win put putting 1 or 2 tries in in that 13 on 11 time would've made the score a bit better but could've messed with Souffs heads. We'll never know.

But wait for the Easts v Souffs match next year. Hope that's in week 1. Will be insane.

Hope not. We potentially won't have a front row.

[Vasco]

"Originally posted by A Country Member

Yep.
As soon as he sided with Latrell midweek, he lost his edge over the opposition and therefore the team did as well. Souths then picked up the extra power and it was the difference. In a game of ‘1 percenters’ Trent gave away our advantage from last game and LM gained it.

The coach whisperer would be filthy


You make a really important point , Country Member.
One percenters are imperative to get in the NRL, they are the difference between winning and losing.
What our coach did , by sympathising with Latrell, was to send the wrong message to our own team.
He said Latrell was the victim, and was treated badly in Round 25 by our fans, and (the targeting) by our team, in round 25..
What sort of message do you think that sends to our players (and fans) for that finals game?
Be sympathetic to Latrell and Souffs when you go onto the field?
And what do Souffs do?
They get the sympathy vote from us, then proceed to bash us out of the game.
Latrell on Manu, Arrow on a prone Tedesco in origin, Burgarse on Teddy on Sunday.
Same pattern, and they are laughing because they fooled our coach, and gave themselves a psychological advantage.
There is not one other coach in the League that sympathises with the opposition, but our coach does, and has his high-horse position of his team not laying down.
I really don't give a sh*t about whether a free- flowing game suits the Roosters style- we need to milk penalties when we need it, or it suits us.
I also couldn't care less about politically correct (gay) or other social causes that our coach pushes - leave that up to social workers and social reformers in society.
I would love to see Robinson get down and dirty in the street fight, in the gutter, throwing punches.
Maybe that would give the right impression to his team, and to his fans, that he is willing to do everything in his power to win a premiership.
Its no use preaching to his team that they need to get better each week, that they need to be ruthless, if the coach does not want to follow suit.
If you are continually going into the fight with one hand tied behind your back, because of moral grounds, maybe its time to quit the fight.
Unless of course, you want to untie the hand, get into the fight by all means possible, and get serious.

I think the players responded like they were willing to do everything in their power.

[Ray Stehr]

Hopefully Robinson will treat each game with equal respect next year.

[zac]

Hopefully Robinson will treat each game with equal respect next year.

we had one of the tougher draws which was a factor in our not finishing top 4. on the plus side this year we showed that we are back to being a heavyweight of the comp, able to compete v the top sides - we could easily have beaten the panthers at penrith, weren't far off beating melbourne twice, didn't lose to the teams that finished 3rd and 4th, could have beaten parra twice ...

[dice]

Hopefully Robinson will treat each game with equal respect next year.

Hopefully Robbo doesn't take pointers from people with no idea about fitness, recovery, and stress.

[SamKerrSimp]

Hopefully Robbo doesn't take pointers from people with no idea about fitness, recovery, and stress.

Nobody has listened to Rooster Cogburn in over 20 years if the club ever listened to him they’d have sacked Brad Fittler at the end of the 2001 season

[Rooster_6]

Training is totally different to a game...just miss only one game? These injuries require longer...clearly a desperation move by trobbo.

There was always talk Tupou would bee right on the edge of 2 weeks from date of injury.

Admittedly I don't know much about groin injuries so I'll take your word for it.

[Rooster_6]

Hopefully Robinson will treat each game with equal respect next year.

I hope not, finals definitely more important than H&A season.

[Ray Stehr]

Nobody has listened to Rooster Cogburn in over 20 years if the club ever listened to him they’d have sacked Brad Fittler at the end of the 2001 season

Not only are you a liar, you are also full of shite.

[Ray Stehr]

The fact that people are disagreeing with my point about losing games that we should've won which ended up costing us top 4 shows what mental midgets frequent this forum. Of course there are a number of intelligent posters here who will always have my respect.

[Pablo Escobar]

I mean to easily dismantle the Cowboys twice and see them hosting a prelim final is pretty frustrating and does come down to the poor start to the season, we are better than everyone other than the Panthers in a straight up football match but it is what it is.

This is why it's so frustrating.

We are the second best team in the comp.

It's fkn bullshit.