Under 20s

[Guest]

Was a pretty good game!

[Yak]

Spot on R6. I saw all their home games and a few away games and very few times did they swing the ball wide when on the back foot. When they were at their best the forward pack was consistently making 60m a set and that just wasn't happening in those final two games but man did they defend their hearts out. Some of the on-line desperation against the sharks was unbelievable for blokes just coming out of SG ball.

[Headless Chook]

I thought the halves were the issue myself. Littlejohn is a runner more than a creative type half, and Riley Jacks looks like a hooker playing halfback. Very little creativity from the guys in the halves meant we weren't able to maintain or build any pressure on the Sharks. A good 6 or 7 would have toyed with the Sharks when they were sitting 2 and 3 defenders on Tau Tau, but ours failed to capitalise and use him as a decoy with a sweep play out the back to the fullback. That to me showed they lack vision.

Can't agree with whoever said our forwards got dominated. Our pigs rolled forward pretty good most of the night and I thought we looked most dangerous when we kept it tight and had some short interchange passes between the forwards.

All in all a disappointing end to what promised to be a great season, but given the age of the squad I think they will improve in leaps and bounds next year.

[Guest]

I thought the halves were the issue myself. Littlejohn is a runner more than a creative type half, and Riley Jacks looks like a hooker playing halfback. Very little creativity from the guys in the halves meant we weren't able to maintain or build any pressure on the Sharks. A good 6 or 7 would have toyed with the Sharks when they were sitting 2 and 3 defenders on Tau Tau, but ours failed to capitalise and use him as a decoy with a sweep play out the back to the fullback. That to me showed they lack vision.

Can't agree with whoever said our forwards got dominated. Our pigs rolled forward pretty good most of the night and I thought we looked most dangerous when we kept it tight and had some short interchange passes between the forwards.

All in all a disappointing end to what promised to be a great season, but given the age of the squad I think they will improve in leaps and bounds next year.

Totally agree! also the player who interchanged with Dumbrell shows promise..

[Yak]

That was me Headless. I was at the game sitting in the corner but reasonably so maybe it looked different for those watching on fox but for mine in comparison to the sharks sets in particular in the middle third of the game they were killing us up the middle starting on the 20 and often kicking on the 20. When Evans and Dumbrell came back on it definitely evened up a lot more and it seemed like that forwards interplay that you spoke about also increased.

On our halves I agree. They are not a creative pair and Littlejohn is definitely a runner but when we were putting big scores on it was when they were in better positions against retreating defences that meant they could swing it deep and be successful. They never relied on creativity, that's for sure.

[Guest]

I was also sitting in the NW corner. What a great game. Did that go to extra time and it was a miracle we got there because we were down a fair bit? My recollection was we were pretty poor until the last 20 or so when the momentum completely changed? I remember rushing home to watch the replay but they cut the ending off because it ran o'time.

They cut it off because of Princess Diana's funeral. To this day, I've never seen the end of the match.

The last thing I saw was Andy Walker kicking the field goal to get to extra time.

[Guest]

They cut it off because of Princess Diana's funeral. To this day, I've never seen the end of the match.

The last thing I saw was Andy Walker kicking the field goal to get to extra time.

Taling about getting priorities wrong. In my opinion a dead royal is a good royal. Disgusting inbred leeches.

[trewhella]

lol what teams don't play an 'expansive game' in the NYC.

Our wins were on the back of ball control, massive go forward and great defence. Anyone who watched this team through their wins will back me up on this.

Do you realize you just contradicted yourself

[Guest]

Do you realize you just contradicted yourself

Ha ha the Gimp got you there Rooster 6.

[Guest]

I am proud of our under 20s.

[Yak]

He's right though. Every team plays expansive footy cos they know when inexperienced edge defences are tested they generally fold. Teams tried to play expansive against us all year because it worked against other team but our edge defence backed up the good job the forwards were doing. Just because you're expansive does not mean you will score tries. We never had field position or were never really on the front foot to be effectively expansive because we were probably buggered from doing so much desperate defending. The Sharks did not win from being more expansive because they knew that game plan doesn't work against good defensive outfits. Their forwards worked them into better positions and their halves controlled how we started our sets far better.

[theGman]

I thought the halves were the issue myself. Littlejohn is a runner more than a creative type half, and Riley Jacks looks like a hooker playing halfback. Very little creativity from the guys in the halves meant we weren't able to maintain or build any pressure on the Sharks. A good 6 or 7 would have toyed with the Sharks when they were sitting 2 and 3 defenders on Tau Tau, but ours failed to capitalise and use him as a decoy with a sweep play out the back to the fullback. That to me showed they lack vision.

Can't agree with whoever said our forwards got dominated. Our pigs rolled forward pretty good most of the night and I thought we looked most dangerous when we kept it tight and had some short interchange passes between the forwards.

All in all a disappointing end to what promised to be a great season, but given the age of the squad I think they will improve in leaps and bounds next year.

The officiating was the major disappointment for mine and cost us the game 100%. I base this on some priviledged information.
The referees have reviewed Friday nights game and admit they got 2 crucial decisions wrong.
1. Cheyse's try in the opening 10 minutes of the game should have been awarded (video ref adjudicated on this as well & farked up).
2. The drop-out from Ryley Jacks (score was 10-4 at the the time) went 10 metres and should have been play on.

Can't cry over spilt milk now however, we got sausaged on the bell last year in the prelim final against the Dogs (forward inside pass).

Refereeing standard across the code has not improved one iota.

[Kingbilly]

I was frustrating because they didn't win, but it wasn't too bad.
The good news is I think out of the 20+ players used in thew last couple of games onl t 1 is gone next year.
All the rest are still in U20s, Newtown or Roosters NRL

[Guest]

Taylor crapalino

[Vasco]

I agree with Trew.

Hence Taylor has no future at the Roosters.

We need winners.