Why the f*** are souffs playing at allianz ?!?!

[Eggspert]

Sharks can't defend on their on goal line. Absolute rubbish. Their #18 winger is trash.

A reserve Roosters team would have beat this mob.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Because a Rabbitoh doesn’t even exist? Such a stupid club emblem.

A Rabbitoh would sell rabbit meat back in the day. Now the vermin nick name themselves "the bunnies." Anyone else see the stupidity in that?

[weplayforprems]

It’s an interesting idea but not sure it works on a couple of levels

Top 4 teams who lose the first week should travel to the elimination final winners the next?

Well if you finish 3rd or 4th your reward is to play either of the two best teams in the comp away… so odds are you are going to lose… so then you should again travel away the next week to a team you finished above on the table after 24 rounds?

The teams 5 to 8 are playing lesser opponents the first week. So finish 5th and you’re likely to get two finals at home… finish 4th and you’re likely to get two finals away. Doesn’t make a great deal of sense

As for an extra week… how many times do you want to see these teams play each other before they meet in the Grand Final? Do you really want to see the two top 4 winners in week 1 play each other for a place in the GF…and then likely play each other again 2 weeks later in the actual GF?

That’s why they flip the rankings after week 1… they don’t want to see the same teams play each more than once if they can avoid it

Interesting idea nevertheless

I don’t mind the finals as they are… I’d probably prefer if they returned to a more typically seeded approach though… 1 vs 8… 2 vs 7 etc. but whatever it’s good

There’s a good reason they got rid of the lower teams hosting second week finals (under the old McIntyre system at least). It killed us in 2008 when we travelled to NZ second week to play the eighth placed Warriors. And also the minor premier dragons the following year went out in straight sets, the second game being away in Brisbane.

on no planet should Parra have had to play in Canberra last night.

the finals set up is pretty spot on as it is now

[redwhiteblue]

Im tipping Penrith to get over Souths & Parra to get over the Cowboys.
Parra are the only team that can beat Penrith.

That dream I had the other night was Parra v Cowboys..the one with all the crowds spilling out onto the streets..Still think Parra will win it..

[redwhiteblue]

A Rabbitoh would sell rabbit meat back in the day. Now the vermin nick name themselves "the bunnies." Anyone else see the stupidity in that?

Yes, it was a profession, not an animal.

[King Salvo]

A Rabbitoh would sell rabbit meat back in the day. Now the vermin nick name themselves "the bunnies." Anyone else see the stupidity in that?

I hope next year the only talk about Souths is only when the Roosters play them otherwise the Chookpen should be a Souths free zone

[mightyrooster]

A Rabbitoh would sell rabbit meat back in the day. Now the vermin nick name themselves "the bunnies." Anyone else see the stupidity in that?

Yep exactly I know. But the TV broadcast (Foxtel) has no idea what sound to use which is appropriate for it, because there is none. We get a Roosters crow for instance and the Sharks Jaws music. So consequently we end up with the vermins club song!

[weplayforprems]

Yep exactly I know. But the TV broadcast (Foxtel) has no idea what sound to use which is appropriate for it, because there is none. We get a Roosters crow for instance and the Sharks Jaws music. So consequently we end up with the vermins club song!

Bring back “Rooster Rooster maaaaan!”

[mightyrooster]

Bring back “Rooster Rooster maaaaan!”

Nooooo…Here Come The Roosters is so much better. Sorry.

[Les Tricolores]

There’s a good reason they got rid of the lower teams hosting second week finals (under the old McIntyre system at least). It killed us in 2008 when we travelled to NZ second week to play the eighth placed Warriors. And also the minor premier dragons the following year went out in straight sets, the second game being away in Brisbane.

on no planet should Parra have had to play in Canberra last night.

the finals set up is pretty spot on as it is now

It made more sense with the old seeding system… 1 v 8… 2 v 7 etc… but it still diminished results over the season

If you just scrape into the finals after 24 matches don’t see there is a scenario where you should be hosting any finals

[zac]

yeah, some of cronulla's defence was just awful

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

Most of those 80k supporters at the first 2 games were Easts fans.

Interesting. I wasn't at the elimination final, but all I heard was that the vermin fans outnumbered us. From the footage I saw, both on FOX and Nine, it seemed to be more of us, clearly. I get sick of the media bias and apologists getting behind that filthy mob.

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

Nooooo…Here Come The Roosters is so much better. Sorry.

I completely agree. I think it is an original song, unlike the vermin who took a great song called the Battle Hymn of the Republic and twisted it. They were not the first to use it either, with the great Tottenham Hotspur football club taking that mantle as far as I know in 1961. The rabble were in 1967.

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

It is OUR home, OUR ground. Sure, it is owned by the taxpayers, but geographically it is in OUR territory, not theirs. Bondi Junction is closer to Moore Park than Redfern. They have ZERO credibility on this matter.

[NorfolkStreetKid]

Allianz is a stadium, we don't OWN it, unless we win more than 70% of our games there, so let's do that