Shit show of a game

[Les Tricolores]

"Originally posted by Les Tricolores

I don’t fault any of the players yesterday… it was a valiant effort against insurmountable odds… partly due to bad luck… partly due to egregious foul play from our opponents that went unpunished.

The sin bin means absolutely nothing these days when your best player is illegally taken out… and Burgess didn’t even get binned for it! In fact he was allowed to immediately try and knock out another one of our players the very next set… can you blame him?

So the referees obviously didn’t defend our players… I think all Roosters fans should be well used to that by now…


You make perfect sense with what you are saying, which is:
i) Foul play from our opponents that went unpunished
ii) The bin means nothing when you target the best players on the field, and take them out.
ii) The referees don't defend our players.

I don't even know if the keyboard warriors on this forum have ever played football or been in a fight, but let me tell you , if you cop a good shot, you are basically F#cked for the rest of the game.
Those who say JWH and Radley "lost their heads" - that's why we lost - have no clue.
And the other story - we had 13 on their 11 , couldn't take advantage of it.
Half our team wouldn't have been able to walk straight, let alone play football, after the bashing they copped - no wonder we did nothing with 13 on 11.

Souffs belted us off the park, and it wasn't through playing football.
Good luck to Souffs- they know what they are doing.

How do the Roosters combat this - next time we play Souffs?
Turn the other cheek?
Pretend it didn't happen?
Hope that it doesn't happen again, that Latrell doesn't smash Joey's face, or Souffs go easy on illegal high tackles?
Expect (or hope) that Klein and the NRL protect our players, ?.
Plan on playing enterprising football and think you will win?
Play the game fairly, and having the right moral compass, knowing this is the right thing?

Any other solutions on offer?
Anybody?

Does anyone think that the magic fairy will appear, wave the magic wand, and all our troubles will disappear, and we will beat souffs?

How about I offer one solution - that is in complete contrast to those who think JWH and Radley "lose their heads"

Go out with aggression, and at the first hint of foul play , retaliate by all means (fair and foul)
Expect the game to be a farce- its going to be a brawl, like it always is- don't expect anything else
Go out and win the fight at all costs.
(That is of course, unless you think your players aren't up to the fight)
It does not matter if you lose the game, or cop suspensions, if the fight is on (I have no doubt it will be on) just ensure you win the fight.
Maybe then, your team will be in the right headspace to win the title.
Maybe then , the team will earn some respect, for not being pushovers.
Maybe then, the hospital visits and dog shots will disappear.
Maybe then, our team won't be regarded as pussies, who cop shit, and buckle at the the first sign of trouble.

Because that's what everyone thinks of our team..
Unfortunately, that's where I think our side is, at the moment, after 2 almighty bashings at the hands of the scum.
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Then again, you might just wait for the fairy godmother to appear , or for miracles to happen, to get rid of your troubles.
But I don't really like your chances of that occurring..

I like your thinking!

[Random Rooster]

Demitriou made it clear that JWH was the villain.
Not to mention that Radley always gets binned.
The roosters coach says he is happy with the officiating, so obviously, no complaints.
That is all that the general public will remember from this game.
And it will be groundhog day all over again when the Roosters play Souffs next year.
They will put the biff on during the club rounds, and in the semi finals , and will kick us out of the semis.
That is despite us being favorites and having the better side- they will just bash us out of the contest again.
Just like they have for the last 2 years
We should change our name from the Roosters to the Eastern Suburbs Pussies.
That's what we are- we are soft - we are Souff Sydney's pussies

Hahahahaha......

Good news....theres 15 soon to be 16 other teams you can support..... including the team who you think we are whipping boys for. Jamie Packer swapped sides….so can you!

[Les Tricolores]

I call souffs troll on tricolour. Joined forum yesterday

I joined yesterday because I was furious by the injustice of what I had just witnessed and was very interested to know if other Roosters felt the same way… I have followed the club for many many years

I didn’t realise however that one had to bend over and unquestionably kiss Trent’s ring regardless to be welcomed by some members of this forum like yourself

But duly noted Tennessee Tornado

[Les Tricolores]

Good news....theres 15 soon to be 16 other teams you can support..... including the team who you think we are whipping boys for. Jamie Packer swapped sides….so can you!

I think you’re missing the joke… he also has a point

[roostermcgregor]

Random Rooster,

I am a Roosters fan, and a member of the club, no doubt like you are, and I am entitled to an opinion, just like everyone.
If my opinion contradicts with yours, that's fine, everyone here is entitled to say what we think, and most of us do so with (what we think) is the best interests of our team
Les Tricolores here says I have a point, and I was just trying to express that, and my frustration from Sunday, in my own way.
You also cannot deny that Souffs are all over us as far as the results have played out since 2019.
You also cannot deny that they have (illegally ) put us off our game on more than a few occasions.
In my opinion, this is going to continue, because it brings them the best results.
Its a bit like the school bully- he keeps belting you and you keep copping it, and you come off second best..
You are waiting for the school principal (NRL) to intervene, but they are doing nothing.
Its actually in the NRL's interest to let the mayhem continue, because the general fanbase is against the Roosters, and the NRL don't want us to win.
(I would have thought that was obvious with the one- sided refereeing that has been going on for years)
What is the fallout from Sundays game? - What has Annersly and the NRL said that is going to stop the carnage - Nothing.
Anyway, I am sure your solution is to beat Souffs the next time the 2 sides meet, by having better players than them, and beat them with superior footy.
I personally don't think that will work, because most of your superior players will be sitting on the sidelines, medically retired from the game
I know there are also a lot of "New Age" thinkers on this forum who hate violence.
They don't want to know about it, and its against their grain to even think that way.
A lot (and I would say most contributors to this forum) live in a perfect (and politically correct) world, thinking that the NRL is doing all it can do to stop the violence.
The violence is there- just in a new form.
My solution is to stand up to the bully - fight fire with fire.
I would even go out next game with a pre- meditated plan of aggression., targeting Souffs key players. Yes, be the aggressor.
OH SHOCK , HORROR, HOW CAN THIS IDIOT (MCGREGOR) EVEN SUGGEST THIS SORT OF THING ? !!!!!!
IT GOES AGAINST ALL OF MY (AND THE ROOSTERS) PRINCIPLES !!!! WILL WE GET SUSPENDED !!!!

Yes it sure does, but for 3 years I have been listening to "the Roosters Way" , moral high grounds, playing in the spirit of the game.- which , although its full of virtue (and I don't say that sarcastically) , it doesn't work against Souffs.
It might work against all other teams, but when we play Souffs, Manu is hospitalised, and Teddy is Traumatised, like a few others. and the carnage is unbelievable.

Anyway , you peddle your opinion on what needs to be done (whatever that is , because I don't think I have heard it) , And I'll peddle mine ( along with Les Tricolores who thinks I have a point.)
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I guess we can wait to see what happens next year.
It will be interesting to see what unfolds.
My biggest fear is that the Roosters change nothing, and what I have predicted,, actually happens.
I would be very, very, very disappointed if that eventuates.

Anyway good luck with your winning formulas for 2023 , fellow chookpen members!!!!







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[Random Rooster]

Souffs belted us off the park, and it wasn't through playing football.
Good luck to Souffs- they know what they are doing.

How do the Roosters combat this - next time we play Souffs?
Turn the other cheek?
Pretend it didn't happen?
Hope that it doesn't happen again, that Latrell doesn't smash Joey's face, or Souffs go easy on illegal high tackles?
Expect (or hope) that Klein and the NRL protect our players, ?.
Plan on playing enterprising football and think you will win?
Play the game fairly, and having the right moral compass, knowing this is the right thing?

Any other solutions on offer?
Anybody?

Does anyone think that the magic fairy will appear, wave the magic wand, and all our troubles will disappear, and we will beat souffs?

How about I offer one solution - that is in complete contrast to those who think JWH and Radley "lose their heads"

Go out with aggression, and at the first hint of foul play , retaliate by all means (fair and foul)
Expect the game to be a farce- its going to be a brawl, like it always is- don't expect anything else
Go out and win the fight at all costs.
(That is of course, unless you think your players aren't up to the fight)
It does not matter if you lose the game, or cop suspensions, if the fight is on (I have no doubt it will be on) just ensure you win the fight.
Maybe then, your team will be in the right headspace to win the title.
Maybe then , the team will earn some respect, for not being pushovers.
Maybe then, the hospital visits and dog shots will disappear.
Maybe then, our team won't be regarded as pussies, who cop shit, and buckle at the the first sign of trouble.

Because that's what everyone thinks of our team..
Unfortunately, that's where I think our side is, at the moment, after 2 almighty bashings at the hands of the scum.
.

Then again, you might just wait for the fairy godmother to appear , or for miracles to happen, to get rid of your troubles.
But I don't really like your chances of that occurring..

Im trying to get my head around all this. So you're saying that Robbo should have instructed the players to go out and brawl because winning the fight is what matters???

If it "doesn't matter if you lose the game" then what are you actually trying to achieve? Be the most intimidating team on a mad Monday pub crawl?

What hospital visits are you talking about? You make it sound like they went on a rampage and wiped out half the team. Yeah Burgess caught Teddy with a high shot and the refs got it wrong allowing him to at least not get binned- but dont tell me Burgess premeditated the tackle.

Angus got his head in the wrong position making a tackle and fails the HIA- Toops goes off with a groin injury. To say we were belted out of the game is a massive exaggeration.

I haven't heard one respected journo or commentator say the Roosters are soft or pushovers. Any particular forward you think is soft and we should get rid of?

I honestly think if we were at full strength we easily beat them then Cronulla- Penrith 50/50.... but luck with injuries decimated the backline and left us vulnerable.

[Random Rooster]

Random Rooster,

It might work against all other teams, but when we play Souffs, Manu is hospitalised, and Teddy is Traumatised, like a few others. and the carnage is unbelievable.

Anyway , you peddle your opinion on what needs to be done (whatever that is , because I don't think I have heard it) , And I'll peddle mine ( along with Les Tricolores who thinks I have a point.)
,
I guess we can wait to see what happens next year.
It will be interesting to see what unfolds.
My biggest fear is that the Roosters change nothing, and what I have predicted,, actually happens.
I would be very, very, very disappointed if that eventuates.

Anyway good luck with your winning formulas for 2023 , fellow chookpen members!!!!

Here's my opinion......

We have a great roster-especially in the forwards. I don't think ANY of our forwards take a backward step against any team. If anything we overplay our hand at times in the area of aggression.

We need to find a centre. Jmoz has been the best we have had since Latrell left but he was never going to be a long term solution. If it's going to be JS to the centres then we need a winger with speed.

We need to bring in some of the younger talent from the junior ranks-in both the backs and forwards- because there's not enough quality on the open market to chase established players-and with Redcliffe coming into the comp the pool of quality players is thinned out even further.

We desperately need luck with injuries. Every team that has won the comp in the modern NRL era has had close to a full complement of players on the field come semi final time.

[rented tracksuit]

A witty reply to the vermin supporter in our midst. Well done.

He leaves himself plenty of second chances. Melb gone, us gone, he’s still in it!

[rented tracksuit]

I call souffs troll on tricolour. Joined forum yesterday

There’s a few that have joined in the past week that are writing like they have been here before.

[roostermcgregor]

Ramdom Rooster,

I have basically said our team needs to stand up to Souths the next time we play.
We played them on Sunday, and we were completely unprepared for the chaos.
Burgess took out Teddy, and within one minute, nearly decapitated Lodge.
Then another illegal hit on Suaalii - which nearly half killed him - didn't you notice?
Souffs were down to 11 men - and they did not give a rats arse.
How often have you seen that in a game.?
They hit us with illegal shots, and hurt the players , and we were not ready for the tactics.
We did not have a Plan B to cope with this.
Our coach, and most supporters, thought we would roll through them like the previous game.
Except Sunday was not a game of football- but you still think it was.
That's what I saw, but you have a different viewpoint on the whole thing - you only saw the retirements of Angus & Toops, as being relevant, and those were not the result of foul play.
Everyone on the Roosters side was unprepared for Sunday, but not Souffs.
It was an ambush.
As far as your respected commentators are concerned, you are making me laugh. Most of them are so Anti Roosters, when JWH and Radley do something , they are up in arms.
When somebody hospitalises a Roosters player (think Drew Hutchinson - knees in the back) the commentators , and the bunker, are silent.
How often do you see a player come off the field with his face disfigured, and he ends up in hospital with plates in his face.?
That is Souff Sydney.
What I am saying is that it does not matter that we lose a club round to Souffs next year, as long as we stand up to them if they bring on the cheap shots (which I predict will happen- history tells me so)
Sure, go in with Plan A to play football (your thinking) , but if it all starts to go pear shaped, the Roosters better have Plan B to execute ( that's my prediction) or they are going to be in a heap of trouble,
If we turn the other cheek, play the Roosters way, play it fair, Souffs will thump us out of the game - again, and again, and. we will never win anything, ever..
Next, you are also missing my point completely.
I ma not saying the Roosters forwards are soft. They are soft if they go onto the field, cop the rubbish that the other side dishes up, and are either do not retaliate because they are instructed not to, or decide not to retaliate because they do not know how. The Roosters forwards now have that opportunity to assert themselves. At the moment, everyone would have to agree that Souffs have the better of them, illegally or otherwise. As of today, the Roosters are pretty much Souffs "pussies" .
I had a stoush with a Souffs supporter who came on our website - his name was Pabloluke - , you can read his comments in another thread on the Souths vs Roosters elimination final, on our forum.
His comment was that .that the Roosters need "to come to daddy"
Maybe you understand that, maybe you don't, but I sure as hell do.
I personally felt sick after what I had seen on Sunday. Lots of other supporters also told me they felt sick after the game. In the presser, I really think Luke Keary was traumatised with what he had seen unfold in front of his eyes ( I suggest you watch it the presser again, closely ).
But then again, you were completely fine with the game, and , from your comments , you reckon with a full strength side we would have beaten them.
Does that full strength side include Teddy, who is usually responsible for 1/3 of our attack, or do we leave him out for this game, because he is fouled out of the game after 15 minutes?.
Is it the starting side that needs to be at full strength, or is it the side that's on the field after 20 minutes, half time or at the end of the game?
I just don't know- maybe you can tell me what is full strength?
Like I said, you saw the game the way you saw it, I saw what I saw.
What we saw was completely different.
We are different people, different philosophy, different ideas, different upbringing, and obviously, see things differently when it happens.
Lets leave it at that.

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I still reckon that the penalty for foul play should be that the offender serves the same time off the park as the victim.

[The Lip]

I still reckon that the penalty for foul play should be that the offender serves the same time off the park as the victim.

You would hate that if Teddy accidentally knocked Waqa Blake's legs out from under him and broke his legs illegally somehow.

it can't be that but I get what your saying - partic for a high shot that takes a player off the the current game - shouldn't be a sin bin should be your off with him

[Bansai Pipeline]

I hope Penrith absolutely destroy those diving dogs.

I'm tending to agree with the comments about Robbo. We paid dumb but they played dirty. He did not call it out at all.

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You would hate that if Teddy accidentally knocked Waqa Blake's legs out from under him and broke his legs illegally somehow.

it can't be that but I get what your saying - partic for a high shot that takes a player off the the current game - shouldn't be a sin bin should be your off with him

You just cancelled out your response with “accidentally”.

[rented tracksuit]

I hope Penrith absolutely destroy those diving dogs.

I'm tending to agree with the comments about Robbo. We paid dumb but they played dirty. He did not call it out at all.

They won’t get to the Riff. They’re goooorrrrrn this week.

Anyone but souffs!