Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Storm

[A Country Member]

The chooks showed their reliance on Tedesco last night. While Manu is an admirable replacement, he was short of a run and wasn’t nearly involved as he could’ve been if match fit. It was a valuable lesson for the team when you take out their main man.

[Rocky Rhodes]

Don't hit the panic button... Storm were at close to their best plus had the ref on their side. We got no calls.

Our defence held up well given the context of the game with us having to defend our line for 70% of the game. Couldve folded like a pack or cards.

The handling errors killed us. Same old same old. We can iron them out. Its only Round 6. Dont panic. We have light years of improvement, Melbourne dont. That's them. Very beatable.

Wow....Melbourne don't have heaps of improvement too? Aren't they missing their best outside back in Pappenhuyzen...who on form is in the top 10 players in the comp. And Giant Nelson Asofa Solomona perhaps their best forward. If we can't beat them now, when will we ever be able to defeat them? And there are better teams than the storm this yr.

[Inflictor]

Wow....Melbourne don't have heaps of improvement too? Aren't they missing their best outside back in Pappenhuyzen...who on form is in the top 10 players in the comp. And Giant Nelson Asofa Solomona perhaps their best forward. If we can't beat them now, when will we ever be able to defeat them? And there are better teams than the storm this yr.

When we have Teddy, Lodge, Gus, Sitili and Brown back. Manu will replace Hutch at centre and our bench will be of Group 1 standard.

They had a lot go their way last night. We never gave ourselves a chance with all that dropped ball. That was the difference last night.

[Rooster1908]

When we have Teddy, Lodge, Gus, Sitili and Brown back. Manu will replace Hutch at centre and our bench will be of Group 1 standard.

They had a lot go their way last night. We never gave ourselves a chance with all that dropped ball. That was the difference last night.

Any team missing big Nelson and Paps are a lot more dangerous with them then without them. Need to stop making excuses about injuries. Every team has them .Rads was the turning point . Maybe needs to take a few weeks off and let Brown step in

[Rocky Rhodes]

Any team missing big Nelson and Paps are a lot more dangerous with them then without them. Need to stop making excuses about injuries. Every team has them .Rads was the turning point . Maybe needs to take a few weeks off and let Brown step in

Exactly...too many on here are schooled in the Ricky Stuart School of excuses. The Storms injury toll this yr was far worse than ours yet they are above us yet again.

Excuses are for losers.

[milanja]

When we have Teddy, Lodge, Gus, Sitili and Brown back. Manu will replace Hutch at centre and our bench will be of Group 1 standard.

They had a lot go their way last night. We never gave ourselves a chance with all that dropped ball. That was the difference last night.

A lot keep saying we are missing Brown, yet he has never played for us,and with sitili, again, when he is in the team, most want him dropped.

be great to have everyone back for availability, but they shouldn’t be part of our excuses until they prove they deserve selection.

[Vasco]

Exactly...too many on here are schooled in the Ricky Stuart School of excuses. The Storms injury toll this yr was far worse than ours yet they are above us yet again.

Excuses are for losers.

Hard to argue.

[King Salvo]

I don't think that performance is any indication of whether they can or can't win the comp though

41% possession and 61% completion rates meant they never gave themselves a real chance of competing in the match let alone winning it.

You would be more concerned if they had played at their best and lost by such a score though as well there is minimal if any thing that could be improved on except go to the market end of season and sign a few of these so called x factor players

Last night demonstrated the affect time in possession has on a game result - Storm - 31.44 minutes - Roosters - 21.56 minutes which is quite a disparity - if you are not going to complete sets at a high completion rate then you really are giving the opposition more than a leg up with such a time in possession difference. - almost 10 minutes

The time in possession for the 5 games so far

• Dolphins - 29.44 - Roosters - 24.40
• Roosters - 29.48 - Warriors - 25.21
• Roosters - 28.35 - Souths - 26.11
• Roosters - 27.00 - Parramatta - 25.29
• Storm - 31.44 - Roosters - 21.56

[Recky62]

WELL, that was highly disappointing...nuff said

[bondi.boy]

Yes that was a tough call, and a turning point. But we have to be stronger than that.
Melbourne got plenty of good calls, 6 agains, missed knock ons, missed forward passes,
and we got suspect calls twice when lost balls were possible strips
but that shiit is normal for us.
We got lost, tried too hard, especially Smith and Walker, made mistakes, got flustered.
We didn't play to the conditions, slippery ball and ground.
We showed plenty of guts, but not a lot of smarts.
It wasnt our night, but not a death sentence either.
We can make a few adjustments when we get Teddy, Lodge, Angus and yes Momo back.
We won't have to play Hutch in a role he can't handle.
Plenty of blue sky ahead.

We can't be stronger than that, given the refereeing and with half our best team missing.

The team that won at Accor today sure did very well in the refereeing.

Blue sky ahead for us?
Not with that team in the positions they were last night.

[Rooster_6]

We can't be stronger than that, given the refereeing and with half our best team missing.

The team that won at Accor today sure did very well in the refereeing.

Blue sky ahead for us?
Not with that team in the positions they were last night.

Speaking of officiating in the Bulldogs game, Sutton seemed to ignore Josh Reynold's claims in this incident.

Seems squirrel grips run in the Burgess family.

https://twitter.com/bradfogarty101/s...753589248?s=20

[bondi.boy]

Towards the end of the game a wide box appeared bottom of screen..."last ten penalties"...a club symbol in each smaller box within the wide box.
9 rabbits, one bulldog.

[The Lip]

I'm going to say this here and now. If Angus Crichton comes back fit and mentally ready to play then he should replace Radley. Who should never be in first grade again.

Just pull the trigger Johnny and stop teasing

[HunchoRooster]

Wow....Melbourne don't have heaps of improvement too? Aren't they missing their best outside back in Pappenhuyzen...who on form is in the top 10 players in the comp. And Giant Nelson Asofa Solomona perhaps their best forward. If we can't beat them now, when will we ever be able to defeat them? And there are better teams than the storm this yr.

I'm not holding my breath on Paps returning. When they say jogging on land is a step forward it doesn't show good signs of playing full contact football anytime soon. NAS adds value but you can argue we are missing 4-5 first teamers so that offsets it.

There are better teams than Melbourne indeed but they'll still punish you if you complete at 40 odd %

[ism22]

the complexion of the game changed when the pass from radley to collins was called forward when it wasn't, we would have been in a great attacking position instead melbourne got the ball down the other end and radley had his brain explosion and was sin binned and the rot had set in then.

'Use your effing head Radley!!!!!'