Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Broncos

[SamKerrSimp]

Well as some have said on here that Billy Smith if fit is the first centre picked, who drops out? I thought Toia and Mark were really good tonight.

Dom Young should drop out and put Mark N on the wing.

[MKCS]

Melbourne & Penrith don't rebuild, why are we? Not to mention Fitzy, who was his understudy, has been absolutely killing it in recruitment and retention, whilst Robbo has completely lost his touch.

As for the rebuilding a team from scratch. I could maybe cop it if he actually delivered when he had one of the best rosters in the comp during the last 5 years, but imo he has consistently underperformed with the roster at his disposal since 2019.

Every team has to rebuild eventually. Melbourne underwent theirs a few years back when they lost Cronk, Slater and Smith in a period of 2 years or whatever it was. Bellamy and the Storm team recruited well though and had Grant, Hughes and Papenhuyzen ready to go BEFORE those players were gone and now a few years later all three are rep players or potential rep players that every club wants to sign.

The difference between us and Melbourne in particular is that Melbourne is recruiting well, is developing these players well and then they're immediately ready when called upon. With us we've put our faith in Sandon Smith who currently isn't anything past NSW Cup/Super League standard, we have no young potential star hooker, no young future star props and in a couple seasons when Tedesco is done we don't have anyone to replace him either. It also seems that instead of slowly blooding these young players into first grade they're just being thrown in there hoping they can do a job.

I have no idea why Robbo and the Roosters recruitment were seemingly so opposed to signing 2-3 good depth players who have first grade experience. Even an average forward with a hundred NRL games would've been a huge breath of fresh air last night.

[Qld Chook]

when people said Robbo was laughing in the press conference I had to watch it. I had no issues with it, but I’m also realistic about our season this year.

Imagine if Bennett or Ricky were our coach in that exact press conference.

Ricky, the whole nrl is against us, nobody expects us to win, these are young kids and we have a five year plan, interview over.


Bennett- one word answers while slouching in a chair.

When you say your realistic about this year, what do you mean by that? That you accept that our terrible recruitment & retention has plagued us for a wasted season?

[milanja]

Like stated above, it was his whole demeanour which was soul crushing as a fan (for me anyway). Very little emotion/care about what was served up. You could tell Teddy was devastated. The way Robbo spoke it was as if it was an acceptable level of performance. I understand we had a lot of players out, but alot of that was self inflicted by either lack of or poor recruiting decisions which Robbos fingerprints would be all over. Like I said, he is done in my eyes. He has put himself in this position. Melbourne & Penrith don't rebuild, why are we? Not to mention Fitzy, who was his understudy, has been absolutely killing it in recruitment and retention, whilst Robbo has completely lost his touch.

As for the rebuilding a team from scratch. I could maybe cop it if he actually delivered when he had one of the best rosters in the comp during the last 5 years, but imo he has consistently underperformed with the roster at his disposal since 2019.

when people said Robbo was laughing in the press conference I had to watch it. I had no issues with it, but I’m also realistic about our season this year.

Imagine if Bennett or Ricky were our coach in that exact press conference.

Ricky, the whole nrl is against us, nobody expects us to win, these are young kids and we have a five year plan, interview over.


Bennett- one word answers while slouching in a chair.

[Lydon]

Just watched the first 30 seconds of Robbos press conference and vomited. Fark he is a dribbler

I feel more at peace when I don’t watch anymore..

[Qld Chook]

But he wasn’t very philosophical, in my opinion he spoke very technically on the game, more so than usual. He said their issue was footy smarts.

Spoke about 4th tackle plays being an issue in the first half. Counting numbers of short sides in the 2nd half caused issues as did last tackle chaos (adhoc play). Spoke about defensive connection, making good decisions when rushing out to shut down the first play but then not to reconnecting when the Broncos moved to plan b or c, leaving holes, creating overlaps etc.

Then spoke about the struggles for new players in the NRL having to make decision under fatigue and high intensity periods which is hard to replicate elsewhere.

Spoke technically on Rob Toia’s aggressive defence, saying he made good decisions to rush up and then not back track like a lot of other centres do.

I don’t think you’ll see another coach talk as technically about their game in Round 1 as he did tonight so I don’t understand the buzz words or phrases claim.

I think he’s just clearly relishing the challenge of building a team almost from scratch again, after years of high expectations and injuries I’m sure it must be freeing to be able to build from the ground up again. Don’t think I’ve seen him so upbeat in a while and he seems to have lost a bit of weight too.

When you say he dodged hard questions, which questions did you think he dodged?

Like stated above, it was his whole demeanour which was soul crushing as a fan (for me anyway). Very little emotion/care about what was served up. You could tell Teddy was devastated. The way Robbo spoke it was as if it was an acceptable level of performance. I understand we had a lot of players out, but alot of that was self inflicted by either lack of or poor recruiting decisions which Robbos fingerprints would be all over. Like I said, he is done in my eyes. He has put himself in this position. Melbourne & Penrith don't rebuild, why are we? Not to mention Fitzy, who was his understudy, has been absolutely killing it in recruitment and retention, whilst Robbo has completely lost his touch.

As for the rebuilding a team from scratch. I could maybe cop it if he actually delivered when he had one of the best rosters in the comp during the last 5 years, but imo he has consistently underperformed with the roster at his disposal since 2019.

[Chook2]

She’s not getting any easier next week
rads out
No one back
agaianst Penrith
week after potential radley, Spencer, Egan butch, Billy smith and Nat butch maybe back
what rotten luck with the Nat butch and Vaa hospital incidents

[rented tracksuit]

LOL..what a predictable twat. Oh and how would u know or think that i post on some vermin site? Obviously u frequent the site yourself.

Face it silly sally salvotard, u are a fool and a fraud, one has to say...

15459 posts of pure dribble, one has to say..

I called the Googler out years ago. Nothing has changed.

[rented tracksuit]

Yeah agree wouldn't drop Toia or Marky. Still raw but both are strong and attracted defenders. The thing with Billy is IF and WHEN I guess.

And for how long?

[MKCS]

I thought Teddy, Mark N, Toia and Crichton looked like they were trying the hardest out of the entire squad tonight. Very excited by both Mark N and Toia especially given that they're only 3 matches in (Combined).

This has been a long thread but there were some posts about recruitment and retention and it's hard not to agree with them. May should still be here, JWH probably should've done another year off the bench for us given the inexperience on that bench as well.

Recruitment needs to be taken incredibly seriously this year. Robson and some depth players that other clubs don't want aren't going to get the job done. The 3, 4 or 5 million that we allegedly have spare in the cap needs to be spent on key players.

Dom Young (In defence), Sandon Smith, Chad Townsend, Dockar-Clay and some of the other young lads aren't first grade standard.

[Rocky Rhodes]

Go back to your vermin sites as you only ever turn up here when the Roosters lose -joined 2009 and 2312 posts - same profile name on the vermin sites as you use here - coincidence no it's you

LOL..what a predictable twat. Oh and how would u know or think that i post on some vermin site? Obviously u frequent the site yourself.

Face it silly sally salvotard, u are a fool and a fraud, one has to say...

15459 posts of pure dribble, one has to say..

[QWERTY]

Lucky you aren't the coach from what you say - drop Dom Young - Clueless - If you had to drop a winger from that game it would be Toops - I wouldn't be dropping either

Salvo, I just wanted to say that I agree with you opinion that the Hutchinator is an underrated player

but every other opinion of yours though is really a waste of time.

Toops was better. The stats point to that, and pretty much everyone with eyes who watched the game would agree. You have quite a bit in common with tonight’s touchie in the eyesight, or lack of, department.

Don’t worry, Robbo obviously won’t take my advice, nor even notice it. If we keep playing like this though I wager that our next coach will have a different opinion on Young

[King Salvo]

We started off really well, and for the first 13 I was quite impressed at how quickly we were able to turn our form around. Some really staunch defence on our line, our attack looked promising and it seemed like we were keeping calm and composed. Townsend looked alright…

…but then the rest of the game happened and to concede 50 points is just abysmal. Credit to the Broncos, they started a bit slow but once the scored the first try they just cracked our defence right open. We didn’t help ourselves either with our discipline. There were a number of times where we won the ball only to lose it early in our set. We just put so much pressure on ourselves that all the good work we started off with just eroded rather quickly. We need to get some steel when the game isn’t going our way, and our defence overall needs to be the main focus of Robbo to fix - I’d rather see our team defend competently at this point in the season than anything else.

Really disappointed with some of our senior players. Collins, while great in defence, offers nothing in attack nowadays. Clearly has lost a bit of pace in the last few years and runs with his back to the defence. Crichton seemed quite rusty, and just didn’t run with the same gusto as he did last year. Townsend was a speed hump (although I don’t think he played as bad as the trials).

Wong and S Smith had a game they’d rather forget, but I saw enough from them to think that in a few more games improvement will be seen from both

Dom Young needs to be dropped.

On the flip side, I was quite impressed with some of our younger players. Steep, Toia, Mark N and Foteki had some really good moments and with more experience you can see a great team forming in the future. Teddy, Tupou and Watson tried their guts out and played valiantly.


We have Penrith next week. I doubt we will be able to turn our form around that quick but if we concede less than 50 I’ll be content.

Lucky you aren't the coach from what you say - drop Dom Young - Clueless - If you had to drop a winger from that game it would be Toops - I wouldn't be dropping either

[King Salvo]

And yet u are one of Trobbo's staunchest fan boys...so stop complaining...u made your bed........sleep on it,

Go back to your vermin sites as you only ever turn up here when the Roosters lose -joined 2009 and 2312 posts - same profile name on the vermin sites as you use here - coincidence no it's you

[King Salvo]

So you saying people can't distinguish between betting with their brains instead of their hearts?

Why throw away hard earned over a result that's going to be obvious.

And no I'm not hoping Robbo gets sacked over this result......I've said before he should have been gone earlier.

Tell me how anyone who supposedly supports a team can bet on that team to miss the 8 and lose the most games - admits to leaving games at half time and 25 or so minutes to go as well. Obviously to anyone not a real supporter are they.

Thick and thin you support your team.