NYC Team vs Storm

[Guest]

We had far more talent out there than Melbourne but they played smarter and controlled the ruck in typical Melbourne fashion.

Sharks are playing the likes of Townsend and Mills from their first grade squad so it'll be a tricky match.

Oh and yeah, Blair is such a myth - he has his head in the clouds far too much for me, try ****ing harder and CONCENTRATE - bombed 2 easy tries with poor hands, Williamson 2.0.

100% right.

Typical niggling spoilng Melbourne effort but we didn't respond well to it.

The Sharks will be a different team to the one we smashed but we can still get them.

Also Blair is ordinary, just stands around doing nothing.

[fletch]

Elo, agree with you regarding Blair, poor attitude will result in him not making the most of his abilities.

Cronulla will be very tough next weekend, yes we beat them well last time, but they were without Townsend/Mills/Frizzell their best 3 players.

we look to be a bit busted today as well Liu will be gone for the season, but Evans only played small minutes in the second half, he looks to be struggling with hamstring/knee problems.

not sure what is wrong with Atkinson but we missed him today, hopefully Taylor dumps Tuivasa it was no surprise our best football in our recent streak was when he was out with an ankle injury, you can't carry someone that is so unfit/slow when you are on the backfoot simply too much of a liability.

[fletch]

anyone know what was wrong with Tago we really missed his punch from the bench.

[Yak]

So does anyone know who has to win between Melbourne and Newcastle today for us to be playing in Sydney next week? Haven't seen today's game yet but hopefully a loss when there was little relevance will give us a wake up call to remind us that you can't always just score points at will. Still pretty confident for next week hopefully playing in Sydney with Moga back.

[Yak]

What happened to Liu? He'll be a big loss. Gives us a lot of 2nd phase.

[fletch]

What happened to Liu? He'll be a big loss. Gives us a lot of 2nd phase.

Yak,

Liu had someone fall on his ankle, didn't look great, straight off and didn't return.

[Rooster_6]

So does anyone know who has to win between Melbourne and Newcastle today for us to be playing in Sydney next week? Haven't seen today's game yet but hopefully a loss when there was little relevance will give us a wake up call to remind us that you can't always just score points at will. Still pretty confident for next week hopefully playing in Sydney with Moga back.

It's irrelevant.

Tigers have a home game and Brisbane.

I'd assume we'll be at the SFS and the other game up at Brisbane

[bondi-boy]

These kids are not ready for first grade yet, they'll get 'eaten'.

[Rooster_6]

They're a very young team so that's expected but there's definitely a few who could handle the step up.

[Burnt Rooster]

I didn't see any stand out first grade potential players in the RWB today, very sub standard performance, all round, I watched the Warriors NYC team, the other night, they were awesome, will win the comp, by a country mile. Keeping fingers crossed that Moga at least will be ready to take the step up next season. How hard was it , seeing Hughie Mcghan's son , scoring tries, and kicking goals against us.

[Cockadoodledoo]

I didn't see any stand out first grade potential players in the RWB today, very sub standard performance, all round, I watched the Warriors NYC team, the other night, they were awesome, will win the comp, by a country mile. Keeping fingers crossed that Moga at least will be ready to take the step up next season. How hard was it , seeing Hughie Mcghan's son , scoring tries, and kicking goals against us.

Even worse as he was offered to the Roosters but our recruitment team didn't rate him. Looks like they aren't missing POS one bit.

[Rooster_6]

Melbourne's team are where we will be this time next year in terms of age. It's no wonder they put in such a professional and experienced performance this arvo.

Has nothing to do with POS who we're really starting to see the results of his recruitment this year.

[fletch]

will be tough for our boys now, short turnaround on the back of an interstate trip, we were pretty badly bashed today, Storm forward pack much more mature bodies, we couldn't stop their go forward at any stage.

friday night 5:15pm vs sharks at the SFS

by the time we get back from Melbourne and do recovery work, we will be lucky to get 2 training sessions in ahead of the match

would have to think Liu is gone for the season after that ankle injury, Tuivasa might get a week for his stupid half hearted stomp on a Melbourne player that incited some fisty cuffs, Rona might be in a little bit of trouble for a spear tackle, not sure about Evans but he didn't play much of the second half so he is certainly carrying some type of injury.

fingers crossed we get some of the other injured players back Taripo/Atkinson/Tago.

will be interested to see how much of a difference Moga makes to this team, seemed a few times today we really missed his strike out wide when there where clear try scoring opportunities.

[Yak]

Hopefully we get plenty of Roosters supporters out there on Friday night. Can't wait, should be a very good game. Hopefully Liu can recover by Friday. Didn't look too bad to me considering Gareth Widdop made it back and his looked alot worse. Moga will make a massive difference. He turns chances into tries. If Moga made the that Rona break before halftime when he dropped the ball he would have easily had the speed to set up Rokolati and that would have been 16-6 and a different ball game.

The criticism of Cheyse Blair is a bit unwarranted for mine. Both instances when he missed chances were both produced by his own efforts. He put a great move on his centre and had the ball luckily punched out by the fullback and the other drop bomb was a very tough chance and he did well to get close I thought. His runs were very strong, made over 10m nearly every run he took and didn't make any major defensive mistakes. I think because people hear that he has attitude problems they pigeonhole him as another Ryan Williamson. Although we were outplayed through the middle, essentially a very poor 10 minutes from Tuivasa was what really let us down. From that moment on Melbourne had all the ascendency. If Liu Atkinson and Tago recover I would leave Tuivasa out and have Liu Tago and Brent on the bench with Atkinson starting at lock.

[Rooster_6]

Yeh should be a good game, I'll be getting out there for the 20's game.