Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Bulldogs

[Rocky Rhodes]

Mark Nawaqanitawase you are The most brilliant, exciting player to hit the Roosters that I have ever seen ! Love It !

lol...u retarded crustacean....take control of ur emotions u dribbler.

Mark Nuffy's 3 drops cost us de game u epic dope...2 resulted in tries so get a dog up ya.

[HunchoRooster]

Wow that hurts. 2pts put through the shredder. Literally an 18pt swing from fundamental/unforgivable errors.

- Toia dropping it over the line
- Toia butchering an overlap. Mark was over untouched.
- Egan Butcher dropping it cold despite being on the field for less than 10 mins.

Dogs did nothing to win that game other than capitalise on our horrid errors. Not even counting the dropped bombs from Mark.

Hard to be angry though when we turned up and showed so much intensity. Played so well in patches. This one hurts.

[King Salvo]

Sandon smith ****ing sucks. He’s just an out and out reserve grader who crumbled under pressure every ****ing time.

his decision making on the tackle after a line break is consistently terrible. He throws the wrong pass when inside the attacking 20 more often than not. His short long kicking is atrocious and his short kicking is hit or miss.

While this pigmy is in out team we will basically be the wests tigers with Luke brooks

You couldn't play NRL even if you owned the team

MMM explain who was not defending as required when the Dogs scored their tries and who put the defence under pressure by dropping those bombs resulting in at least 2 Dogs tries.

65% set completions - 30/46

[BTRD]

A really poor second half by us. 4 soft tries let in.

Why bring Spencer on with 8 to go - too late.

Gotta get Wong and Angus into holes. Billy S wasted tonight.

Anyway, it's on again next week.

[Rooster1908]

So Marky Mark who played fantastic drops 2 bombs , butcher and Collins knock on , Angus looses the ball . And Robinson fails to bring Spencer back on till 73rd min and somehow some of you think Sandon lost us that game .

[Rooster_6]

Great game and great effort to go toe to toe with top of the table.

But our defence just isn't there yet, it was always going to be a case of holding the Dogs to 2-3 tries to beat them and we just weren't good enough. Some really soft line breaks up the middle which was disappointing to see.

[Chook2]

Unfortunately Marky N did a complete dom uoung tonight

2 great tries but **** me he made 6 errors

[ARD]

Sandon Smiths last nine minutes shows why he must be the one to go when Walker returns

Sandon wasn’t in the middle making shit misses. He was a young playmaker trying to win us the match.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Wow...what a game. Another game that we had, but kind of threw away. The difference with our defensive middle from the first half to the second saw us fritter that one away. I don't know if it's experience, fitness or just a drop in concentration. Vic, who I thought was outstanding in the first half, was soft on two defensive plays in our quarter in the second. Disappointing, but so much potential.

Marks try was ridiculous.

[Rooster36]

That for all the know alls that think we don’t need an experienced half … see ya sandon

[Mickie Lane]

Far out man, I underestimated the Dogs with 4 players out well done to them.
To much drop ball for the Chooks which were costly.
Marky had a rocks & diamond game big time.
It just wasnt our night.

[roosterchook]

Dogs very, very lucky to win off our errors. We can be a top team but for our terrible errors.

[QWERTY]

Well, we showed a steeliness that we haven’t shown in previous years but when you make 18 errors against the top team you most likely lose. We probably needed to come away with something in that set when Sandon Smith threw that forward pass.

[RoosterFanNZ]

Can’t wait for Sandon to be dropped for Sammy. I like him but Christ he can’t kick and he can’t set up plays.

we lost that game through our own errors.

that period playing Egan and Blake as props is peak stupidity. Just got monstered through the middle and fatigued everyone.

and why t is Leniu getting 8 mins in the second half?? He’s meant to be our alpha and pack leader and he barely plays while we keep getting dominated

[Swamptrout]

Errors 18 v 8. Nothing more to say.