Junior Kangaroos v Kiwis updates

[Guest]

If the club are smart with their player management and get the right coaching structure in place, 2013 and 2014 should be good years.

I just hope the club are patient. I would much prefer to look after these kids (as well as the 20-23 y.o's currently playing FG) than buy a short term big name signing and lose half these young guys.

but its standard practice to go short term gain for long term pain

[Yak]

A quality five-eighth is what is needed badly. Moga will be at left centre by the end of the year but he will have Anasta feeding him the ball. Give him an ounce of space and he is lethal but I can see a lot of flat play coming from Anasta to his centre which does not suit Moga's game at all. If Foran was to come to the Roosters Moga would be a superstar within a year.

Just to expand on yesterday's game, Cordner was brilliant and really shone as the forward leader out there alongside Finucane. His defence was awesome he saved about 3 linebreaks with big covering tackles that bruised a few kiwis. Also, Ethan Lowe tried hard and never let the team down but was physically dominated for the most part. He and Alex McKinnon were smashed 3 times each. In saying that Lowe was forward to play in tight for most of his time on the field. But I think we kept the right guys, he just had no physical presence at this next level.

[theGman]

A quality five-eighth is what is needed badly. Moga will be at left centre by the end of the year but he will have Anasta feeding him the ball. Give him an ounce of space and he is lethal but I can see a lot of flat play coming from Anasta to his centre which does not suit Moga's game at all. If Foran was to come to the Roosters Moga would be a superstar within a year.

Just to expand on yesterday's game, Cordner was brilliant and really shone as the forward leader out there alongside Finucane. His defence was awesome he saved about 3 linebreaks with big covering tackles that bruised a few kiwis. Also, Ethan Lowe tried hard and never let the team down but was physically dominated for the most part. He and Alex McKinnon were smashed 3 times each. In saying that Lowe was forward to play in tight for most of his time on the field. But I think we kept the right guys, he just had no physical presence at this next level.

Thanks for ther update Yak.
Terrible news coming out of y'days game. Apparently Cordner had to be taken off in the 2nd half of y'days game with a neck injury
& spent last night in John Hunter hospital. Hopefully nothing serious or of concern.

[TheLoneRooster]

Thanks for ther update Yak.
Terrible news coming out of y'days game. Apparently Cordner had to be taken off in the 2nd half of y'days game with a neck injury
& spent last night in John Hunter hospital. Hopefully nothing serious or of concern.

My thanks also go to Yak who really knows his rugby league going by the quality of his posts.
Not good news about Boyd there Gman though I appreciate you letting us all know.
Get well Mr Cordner.

[Rooster_Luke]

Thanks for the updates, glad to hear the boys played well!!
Really hope that Boyd is okay and I hope that Moga is given the chance to develop properly as we may have a serious superstar on our hands, it is hard to hide the excitement!!!

[Guest]

Hi Guys, new member here great forum & enjoy the posts. Just wanting to let you know that, the 'blew' yesterday with Junior Kangaroos & Junior Kiwis was between Ben Murdock-Masli (tigers) & Kane Evans, not Adam Henry. Started with a few words exchanged among the two, then Murdock-Masli threw the first two punches & neither connected, Evans counter acted with 2 jabs to Murdock-Masli mouth & cut him open. Must be true what they about the field, "what happens on the field stays on the field"........true to some, as I saw the two boys having abit of chatt & laugh later that evening, good sports.

[Yak]

Well there you go I assumed Henry was the one fighting after he was sin binned. That makes me feel a bit better about the relationship between he and Evans when they front up to pre season training haha. But I'm positive Evans got hit on the chin by someone, looked like a short sharp one cos he got stun a bit and went backwards out of the fight. What did Henry get sin binned for? Maybe it was a stray one from him that hit Evans.