Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Dolphins

[Thirteen]

Tough defence like last game.
Kill the ball, prevent off loads.
100% completions.
NO idiotic set restart short kickoffs!
Give them nothing, be 'Storm'-like.
Bash em, smash em, trash em (legally of course).
Teddy to stop arguing with the refs, and treat them with contempt.

I hope not. Did you not see the two Manly tries that weren’t assisted by us?

[Sentimentinel]

Lessssssss goooooooo choooooooks

[4 the all in brawl]

No , bugger that.
I hope we put 50 on them.

Agree mate, I don't think we will put a big score on them but I would love to see it....

Roosters by 10...

[4 the all in brawl]

I hope not. Did you not see the two Manly tries that weren’t assisted by us?

Yeah those 2 first half tries were abysmal, but I think it was we were so far in front at the time we kind of fell asleep for a few moments....

Our second half goal line defense was great.......just no intercepts tonight pls......

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Should be an exciting clash hopefully. We have the class and the attacking oomph to prevail obviously. But wary of a Bennett vs Robbo clash, his teams won't go away or self-implode.

We need to start fast to get supremacy but then keep the foot on the pedal.

I don't want us going in to our shell after last week. We are where we are on the ladder with the great differential because of how we attack the game. Robbo signalled at the start of the year we would see a difference to our attack, esp the halves working together at times and swapping roles etc. It's doing the trick nicely. Keep backing yourselves fellas.

We need the dee to stay steely and fix our leaky right. I'm sure the coaching staff are working on this.

Great to see Joey back.

[Teddy]

Just give me a complete performance boys, methodical, measured and controlled game. I’d like to see this at least once this year please.

Go Easts by 8.

[zac]

watched the dolphins v titans game until dolphins were up 14 0 and thought they'd be tough with tpj playing well but they must have collapsed after that. they'll want to make it clear that this year won't be like last year for them and will want to go well tonight but we should have too much for them

[roosterchook]

This is the match to silence our critics, to be disciplined, and put on notice storm and riff that we are every bit their equal and can put them away in the finals and GF.

[bondi.boy]

Agree mate, I don't think we will put a big score on them but I would love to see it....

Roosters by 10...

From memory, I wrote that during game 1 of a season we played at the SCG against the Knights...where our standard of play was terrible, with the Knights walking all over us.
...after so much off season hype.

[player 1]

Dolphins are very beatable.

With the Walker family going wide in the media with how Sammy is entitled to 1.3 M per year, he needs to own this mediocre opposition. He's not produced against the genuine title contenders. Pressure is on for him to totally dominate, otherwise admit he's still in development phase and he's only worth 800K per year.

[Thirteen]

Should be an exciting clash hopefully. We have the class and the attacking oomph to prevail obviously. But wary of a Bennett vs Robbo clash, his teams won't go away or self-implode.

We need to start fast to get supremacy but then keep the foot on the pedal.

I don't want us going in to our shell after last week. We are where we are on the ladder with the great differential because of how we attack the game. Robbo signalled at the start of the year we would see a difference to our attack, esp the halves working together at times and swapping roles etc. It's doing the trick nicely. Keep backing yourselves fellas.

We need the dee to stay steely and fix our leaky right. I'm sure the coaching staff are working on this.

Great to see Joey back.

If I ever give up on starting the match day thread, I’ll be passing the banner onto you. Well written as always Mate.

[Waylander]

No changes. Manu confirmed, Sandon 18th & Wong 19th.

[Bates]

Best day of the week.

Up the Chooks.

[ARD]

Suaalii gotta be good against Farnsworth. Herbie could cause damage out that edge if on.

[ARD]

Is it good or bad parenting to kick your son off the new SpongeBob movie for the Roosters game… take your pick, it’s happening.