Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Bulldogs

[Rocky Rhodes]

Walker will be back though…I think we win if he is paired with Savala.

Win what??

Ever since Cronk retired we have lacked an organizer and someone to control a game.

Other than 1 fluke we can't beat either the storm or panthers.

And we are less than average in finals football without a halfback organizer and leader.

DCE is a must, pair him with walker.

[SamKerrSimp]

Yet another game we win if Sam Walker plays this year, this club must have opened up a voodoo curse when it went back to back because it's been nothing injuries de-railing our seasons since then.

[Rooster_6]

We have a different interpretation of what 50/50 means

I don't believe we win that game 5 times out of 10, you just can't win those types of games with the types of defensive errors we continue to make through the middle.

Was great to see us competitive but we failed to close it out, same as we have a few times this year. That's not just bad luck.

[Rocky Rhodes]

mmm They kicked you off the Souffs site after you ridiculed Bennett saying he should be in a retirement village and was past his use buy date as a coach- There can't be two Rocky Rhodes

WTF u dribbling on about u sad sack. Get a life dude...imagine hanging out on some vermin site.

There can't be two Rocky Rhodes yet there is???

I can assure u I've got teeth..

Google ur evidence Mr Google otherwise STFU

[Bansai Pipeline]

mmm so did your see the D Errors from Collins and Radley whom are both International players - Australia and England respectively or you miss them ?

yeah no I’m well aware of that too

the middle went to hell when the props rotated

i agree

[King Salvo]

Egan was disappointing.

i told my wife he was good for a huge error and he didn’t disappoint.

They can’t all be superstars I guess

mmm so did your see the D Errors from Collins and Radley whom are both International players - Australia and England respectively or you miss them ?

[Chook2]

The first half was some of the best footy I have seen from us all year
then we gave it all away in the 2nd

lookimg at the sheds after they know it was on them

[King Salvo]

The telling factors were some of the main stats - set completions and errors

Set completions - Roosters 65% vs Dogs 80%
Errors - Roosters 18 - Dogs 8
Yardage - second half the Roosters struggled to get out of their half and often kicking within their 40 - Running Metres - 1st half Roosters 779 to Dogs 541 - Second Half - Dogs 941 to Roosters 594
Tackled in 20 - 1st half - Dogs 30 - Roosters 18 - 2nd Half - Dogs 29 - Roosters 17

[bondi paul]

As good as Radley is at times besides banging the esky he clearly didn’t want to bang it tonite. That last effort was woeful.
Watching his decline is like watching a champion fighter having too many fights.

[Bansai Pipeline]

Can we swap foketi with Egan. I don’t understand how Egan has got his spot so definitively over others?

Egan was disappointing.

i told my wife he was good for a huge error and he didn’t disappoint.

They can’t all be superstars I guess

[Bansai Pipeline]

I can cop a loss but im getting frustrated with the way we just throw games away with poor handling and attacking misreads FFS the Dogs weren't that good tonight-they just hanged in there waiting for us to gift them the win- and we did exactly that

yeah fair enough

we’re too young and stupid to grind out a win in a situation like that

but that’s no surprise to me

we’re a team in the making

[RoosterFanNZ]

Can we swap foketi with Egan. I don’t understand how Egan has got his spot so definitively over others?

[Mickie Lane]

We lost that game twice.

It's not a 50/50 probability when the Dogs continue to win games like that and we continue to lose games like that (See Warriors & Rabbitohs games previously).

We have a different interpretation of what 50/50 means

[bondi.boy]

Yes, Hugo and Sam for mine.

[Bates]

It's not all doom and gloom. We got within 4 points of the team that's top of the table and it highlighted a number of areas in our game that need work. It's also put the spotlight on a number of players that aren't up to scratch imo and are 1 step closer to being moved on.

The one thing that bothers me when we lose like that is we pretty much stopped moving the ball around in the second half. We attempted to defend our way to victory which was always unlikely to work! The Dogs are a team that's been finishing games off strongly and they'll grow in confidence with every try.