Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Warriors

[Carlos Parra]

Glad that they turned on the lights for the second half, it would have otherwise been very difficult playing under bud light.

I see what you did there.

[Carlos Parra]

Very happy with the win, but the last tackle kicking was close to diabolical - especially on the rare times we were in their quarter.

[Chook2]

Thoughts on today
if you a piggy forward you love it
if your a back you know you question what you are doing and know you can’t shine in that weather
simple footy wins in the wet. Just like the tigers beating Penrith
complete your sets, hold onto the ball and field position not giving away stupid penalaties
We did a few piggy backs but defended it

with most forward backs now you can see how this has made the butcher brothers start firing
to have brown, Whyte who is killing reserves, wong, baker and May pushing for spots this is only making the 17 want to hold their spot

with JWH coming back next week this should see baker back in res

also the injury to momo should allow us to bring Walker back and manu at centre
as good a ball runner manu is he is a great individual player and not a ball player setting up players outside him
also to much pressure on keary being the only kicker
keary was pressured a couple of times today and so was Johnson so you need 2 kickers in the halves
manu just needs to start roaming like he did end of last year like a 2nd fullback

[Chook2]

All players had good games today with conditions
I think teddy, paulo and manu were best backs with the butcher brothers, radley and Collins / lodge shining
Going to be interesting to see what robbo does with the forward pack
looks like Sitili May have played himself into the prop rotation
smith was huge again
3 points - smith
2 points - butchers
1 point - manu

[mattyh]

All players had good games today with conditions
I think teddy, paulo and manu were best backs with the butcher brothers, radley and Collins / lodge shining
Going to be interesting to see what robbo does with the forward pack
looks like Sitili May have played himself into the prop rotation
smith was huge again
3 points - smith
2 points - butchers
1 point - manu

no love for sitili ?

[Andrew Walker]

Agree but looked a lot better than last week.

some of his runs near the end were promising as he kept poking his nose through.

he will get there

One could say Nat had no energy in attack after making close to 60 tackles Yet still had enough energy to score a try

[King Salvo]

I like Egan. How's Nat, defensively solid, plenty of energy to tackle when you have 7 carries for 59m in 80min of footy. Nice tackling though

Not that type of game - Not sure what more do you want either of them to do - drive the team bus / peel the oranges at half time and wash the jersey's/shorts/socks as well perhaps

Nat's Running Metres in 2023

• Dolphins 85 metres - 44 tackles
• Warriors 108 metres - 52 tackle
• Souths 88 metres - 34 tackles
• Parramatta 102 metres - 43 tackles
• Storm 45 metres - 49 tackles
• Sharks 49 metres - 45 tackles
• Warriors 59 metres - 58 tackles

VS Warriors Today

Sitili 9 carries for 78 metres
Radley 7 carries for 51 metres
Crichton 7 carries for 61 metres
E Butcher 10 carries for 90 metres
Collins 11 carries for 115 metres
Lodge 12 carries for 121 metres
Smith 4 carries for 41 metres



Baker 7 carries for 70 metres
Hutchinator 4 carries for 37 metres

[ConGa]

And quickly got rounded up.

yep i know

[Thirteen]

I hope Smith is ok.

[bondi.boy]

Hutcho got a line break!

That's my man Hutch.
He tackled well too, none got past him.

[King Salvo]

yep i know

There was only 2 line breaks - Tedesco and N Butcher

[Recky62]

well, that was better than a kick in the nuts with steel cap boots ....we held the Worriers to zilch, excellent stuff
3 points - Sitilli
2 points Nat Butcher
1 point Cheese

[MCMLXVI]

Sammy was standing shoulder to shoulder with the players and singing the victory song along with them in the shed. This furthers my intrigue for the whole Sammy Cluedo game.

[Thirteen]

well, that was better than a kick in the nuts with steel cap boots ....we held the Worriers to zilch, excellent stuff
3 points - Sitilli
2 points Nat Butcher
1 point Cheese

3 Collins
2 Sitilli
1 Radley

We had a few good forwards today.

[Inflictor]

Unbelievable that some couch coaches don't have NButch in the top 17. Give yourselves an uppercut ffs.