Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Bulldogs

[Lydon]

Victor Radley has been great this year but that attempted tackle movement on Branson Xerri was scary bad,never seen an attempt like that from him before..Deary me.

[Inflictor]

What a fcuked up feeling this morning.
Had a wedding last so started watching the game around 12:30am. Couldn't sleep for hours after that game.
I think everyone who watched know we lost it apart from a few deluded Dogs supporters who think they will go all the way.
Not blaming anyone. It was a wet night and we made far too many errors.
We lost because of one moment. One moment doesn't happen and we win. Pick it.
- the Toia dropped ball.
- that extra two metres speed in Sandon.
- the play after that. Why Toia ran inside instead of keep going wide.
- the Marky dropped bombs.
- the Ebutch dropped ball.
- the Sandon flick sticks.

The players hurting most today would be Toia, Marky and Rads.

Positives.
- they had so much ball but our defence most of the night was solid against arguably one of the most potent attacking teams in the comp.
- their tries came off our errors and tired defence. Nothing spectacular.
- they are one of the best defensive teams yet our attack was and has been pretty good to break them several times. Sammy should make it even better.
- we were the better team than the team leading the comp.

Although it's a sickening feeling today I'm still smiling knowing that we are so far ahead of where I thought we would be from that first game. Barring injuries we can still cause some damage this year. But I feel origin time might hurt us starting next week against probably a full strength Sharks.

FFS

[The Brain]

Like I said ..plenty of heartaches before the season ends..I'm happy with the tracking of our rebuild..the difference in good to great is marginal.

[ism22]

another one that got away ...

Didn't watch (was at a function) but faaarkin refs!

[mattyh]

U reckon 4 wins out of 10 (40%) is brilliant??

Did u go to woke school and get a golden star on ur forehead for finishing 9th in a 10 person sack race?

Either that or u are on drugs, I reckon.

just my take mate , I think he's doing a good job with the youngsters and massive improvement since trials and round 1.

your entitled to disagree.

[caz]

another one that got away ...

[Swamptrout]

Foketi needs to be in the 17. He has been too good this year to leave out

where's the concretor bloke too?

[Chook2]

The bench rotation in the 2nd half was poor

Collins was gassed and a liability in D
steep was getting pushed backwards and offered no go forward
Egan butch was doing Egan things

We needed to bring Whyte on earlier
and Spencer 8 min? Seriously wtf

the 40-60 min mark we lost it

[Chook2]

I thought we were pretty good tonight.

I thought teddy, toia, savala, rads, wong, were all solid .

jist got done by a better team .

robbo doing a brilliant job this year I reckon .

I don’t agree with we got done by a better team
we were the better team and self imploded with errors, poor decisions and defence issues to loose it

again 4th time this season we have lost it ourselves

we could be 8 from 10

the same issues happen week after week so I’m not sure on the doing a great job yet as week after week these appear

[Rocky Rhodes]

What were your expectations of 2025?

Get out of fantasy land matey, we’re in a rebuild.

Higher than your expectations matey, didn't u predict us to get the spoon?

If u set the bar low enough then anything becomes acceptable to u?

So if u set the bar to say we win one game per season, does winning 2 games per season make a great year with brilliant coaching??

La La land stuff is thinking a top 4 team (last yr) falling to bottom 5 (likely after this rd) is acceptable and brilliant just because we lost a few players. The coaches complete lack of succession planning is the reason we are in this position.

Rebuild? This is a transition not a rebuild....rebuild take like 5 to10 yrs for success..see the bulldogs last 7 to 8 yrs...that's a rebuild.

[Timmah]

F***ked over AGAIN by the scumbag bunker. Robbie Toias try WAS a try any day of the week….but these a-holes slow it down to 1/100th speed and actually look for reasons not to award a try (even after the ref has already awarded it). I hate the officialdom in this game ruining it.
Rob T’s try stands, we win tonight.
I’m sure if they slowed down every filthy dogs try, they’d find a reason to disallow them was well. - There was a fair degree of seperation in that meathead kikaus try also…but they don’t look at that 20 times do they?

[Bansai Pipeline]

U reckon 4 wins out of 10 (40%) is brilliant??

Did u go to woke school and get a golden star on ur forehead for finishing 9th in a 10 person sack race?

Either that or u are on drugs, I reckon.

What were your expectations of 2025?

Get out of fantasy land matey, we’re in a rebuild.

[Rocky Rhodes]

I thought we were pretty good tonight.

I thought teddy, toia, savala, rads, wong, were all solid .

jist got done by a better team .

robbo doing a brilliant job this year I reckon .

U reckon 4 wins out of 10 (40%) is brilliant??

Did u go to woke school and get a golden star on ur forehead for finishing 9th in a 10 person sack race?

Either that or u are on drugs, I reckon.

[Teddy]

Errors if we ever fix up our discipline we win every year, how do we get this team to just clean the errors up?

700 billion dollar question, we find the way to lose these games way to often very very frustrating

[mattyh]

I thought we were pretty good tonight.

I thought teddy, toia, savala, rads, wong, were all solid .

jist got done by a better team .

robbo doing a brilliant job this year I reckon .