Official Match Day Thread: Roosters v Bulldogs

[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 .

[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