Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Warriors

[The Marshall]

We will be lucky to be competitive today. Like Thirteen said in the first few posts, It all depends on the younger and fringe players showing they can handle first grade. If they don’t we will get toasted by a mediocre team for a second week. Coming into this season and the Dolphins game
i couldn’t see how a lot of people thought we were contenders. We have no depth, the timing of our forward transition from our good 2018-2020 pack has not worked and we are seriously weak up front as a result. No matter how good your backline is (and parts of ours is piss weak) you won’t make the eight if your forwards get beaten each week. Hopefully this year we can get our act together with our roster.

[The Lip]

You are on fire.
We can win this, if the worriers are shit.
If the warriors complete over 75% and have 50% possession I think we lose or win
Forwards and backs need to be good.
Defence needs to improve
All parts of our game are shit.
NEXT WEEK is going to be horrible.

Condensed it for you

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

Fletcher Baker to prove the knockers wrong today.

[Thirteen]

We will be lucky to be competitive today. Like Thirteen said in the first few posts, It all depends on the younger and fringe players showing they can handle first grade. If they don’t we will get toasted by a mediocre team for a second week. Coming into this season and the Dolphins game
i couldn’t see how a lot of people thought we were contenders. We have no depth, the timing of our forward transition from our good 2018-2020 pack has not worked and we are seriously weak up front as a result. No matter how good your backline is (and parts of ours is piss weak) you won’t make the eight if your forwards get beaten each week. Hopefully this year we can get our act together with our roster.

Plus we have 6 forwards who will probably sit out more games than they play this season.

JWH - Aging body, suspensions
Radley - Head knocks, suspensions
Collins - Head knocks, injuries, suspensions, origin
Sitili - Knee
Watson - Knee
Angus - Mental illness

This year we will be seeing a lot of Whyte, Wong, May, Baker and even Thomas.

What the hell happened to Momo? Maybe we can swap him for a first grade forward somehow.

[King Salvo]

Several Changes to the Roosters NSW Cup side

1. Ethan King
2. Allan Fitzgibbon
3. Ethan Clark-Wood
4. Jordan Swann
12. Vuate Karawalevu
6. Joseph Whitikama Temara Taipari
7. Sandon Smith
8. Dylan Clifford
9. Thomas Deakin.
17.Luke Hodge
11. Elie El Zakhem.
21 Siua Wong
13. Joshua Bevan

Reserves

9. Tyler Moriarty
15. Thomas Worthington
16. Riley Meyn
26, Callum Ellis

18th Player

23. Coby Thomas

https://www.nswrl.com.au/draw/nsw-cu...rs-v-warriors/

[Team Evil]

Roosters-Warriors NSW cup on Kayo. So glad we are back in NSW cup.

[redwhiteblue]

I don’t want to fall asleep before first grade.

I fall asleep during first grade...

[Rocky Rhodes]

Gotta be the first time in my living memory that I'm considering our pack and forward bench as the worst pack in the comp for this week.

Not even St Merge's fans would swap their pack for ours this week. Jack Bird and Jaydn Su'a are good players...

[bondi.boy]

About 200 people sitting in GA, members, and on eastern side, can't see western side season ticket section.
Hopefully more fans will arrive before kickoff.

[Team Evil]

Lussick is killing it for Warriors.
Volkman as expected doing Ok as well.

[eddie]

Watching reserve grade on Kayo.
Foxtel is now a thing of the past.

[Eggspert]

Make or break in round 2 !!? That’ll do me

Yeah but then the call will be its only Rd3 then 4 then 5 then 6 then 7 then 8...etc..

Just need them to show up & have a decent dig like a proper 1st grade team. These early season losses to average teams like last year come back to haunt.

If our spare parts forwards can hold their own then our backs should be too classy.

[Eggspert]

Several Changes to the Roosters NSW Cup side

1. Ethan King
2. Allan Fitzgibbon
3. Ethan Clark-Wood
4. Jordan Swann
12. Vuate Karawalevu
6. Joseph Whitikama Temara Taipari
7. Sandon Smith
8. Dylan Clifford
9. Thomas Deakin.
17.Luke Hodge
11. Elie El Zakhem.
21 Siua Wong
13. Joshua Bevan

Reserves

9. Tyler Moriarty
15. Thomas Worthington
16. Riley Meyn
26, Callum Ellis

18th Player

23. Coby Thomas

https://www.nswrl.com.au/draw/nsw-cu...rs-v-warriors/

These guys can't hold the ball either.

It's a disease running through the club.

Is there a vaccine for it?

[ism22]

Gotta be the first time in my living memory that I'm considering our pack and forward bench as the worst pack in the comp for this week.

Not even St Merge's fans would swap their pack for ours this week. Jack Bird and Jaydn Su'a are good players...

We're solid when we have JWH, Lodge, Collins, Crichton, Watson and Sitili available. Alas, we do not right now.

IMO most of these (including Rads) are probably welfare exclusions and we're playing the long game. Unfortunate but as fans it's be great if people could show some farking patience rather than shyting on us when we're doing it tough.

Our forwards still contain Collins, Smith, Butcher (a future Origin leader IMO) and some up and coming guns who will only get better with experience (e.g. May and Whyte). In addition, our backline is the best in the comp... if not the farking world TBH (which country has a better backline?)

Part of the fun of watching footy is seeing us evolve. Sure it s*x losing, particularly when you KNOW we have the better roster on our books (often one we cannot use due to injuries and all). Be patient though... we WILL come good. And if we don't, then be a fan rather than a hater.

[MCMLXVI]

We need to play with outside back pace like the pamferrs and run the worriers into the ground.

We stand too flat in attack which makes handling errors appear too often. I watched the Penrith game and noticed how their attacking formation stands deeper than ours, which gives them better ball control and a bit more pace and momentum when they reach the defensive line.